It then became station ship at Washington, DC and laid up in 1885. In 1896, it was transferred to the Connecticut State Militia.
With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, cities along the eastern seaboard feared attack by the Spanish Navy. With the US Navy stationed at Key West, several old vessels, mostly Civil War era, were pressed into service, including the Wyandotte which was recommissioned 30 April 1898.
The ship guarded Boston from May to September and was decommissioned in September 1898 and sold for scrap in 1899.
There are some good photos of the ship at www.navsource.org.archives/01/wyandotte.htm. One shows wash drying on the deck. Another shows the deck awash and two have the crew lined up in Boston in 1898.
The Monitor That Didn't Make It to the Civil War. --B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
