| Summary: | Named for a river in Connecticut, the "Yantic" was built by Merrick and Sons of Philadelphia in 1864. Rumored to have been designed as President Lincoln's private yacht, the "Yantic" was used as a gunboat during the Civil War. After the war, the "Yantic" was sent to Asia, South America, the West Indies, and the Arctic. In 1898 the ship joined a fleet of vessels loaned to Great Lakes states for naval militia training. On October 22, 1929, the "Yantic" sank at her dock in Detroit. The African live oak hull had deteriorated after 65 years on the water. The "Yantic" was dismantled at Detroit in 1936.
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