Model at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Photo dated 30 November 1899
Wood-built. Launched at the Philadelphia Navy yard on 16 March 1864, commissioned on 12 August, training ship for the Naval Militia of the state of Michigan 1898-1917 stationed at Hancock 1907-1917), again commissioned as a gunboat was she as a training ship used at the naval training Station, Great lakes, Illinois, stricken from the navy list on 24 July 1919, although originally ordered to be sold was she since 31 December again to be used as training ship . She was now stationed at Cleveland, Ohio on 15 May 1921 as the IX-21, decommissioned 30 June 1926 and for the second time. loaned to the state of Michigan, sunk alongside the dock at Townsend Avenue, Detroit, Michigan on 22 October 1929 was she stricken from the Navy List on 9 May 1930. Apparently her hull still exists although buried in a filled-in boat slip in Gabriel Richard Park. Displacement 836 long tons/849 tons and as dimensions 55 (between perpendiculars) x 9,19 x 4,19 metres or 179’ x 30’ x 13’9’. Speed was 9,5 knots. Her crew numbered 154 men. As a gunboat consisted her armament of 1-100 pd Parrott rifle, 1-30pd Parrott rifle, 2-9”/23cm smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 2-24pd howitzers and 1-12pd gun.
