High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Wyandotte (1853) was a steamer acquired by the Navy as a gunship for the Paraguay expedition in 1858. When the crisis of the American Civil War occurred, she was recommissioned for service in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Wyandotte -- a former merchant steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1853 as Western Port -- was chartered by the Navy Department in the autumn of 1858 to participate in an American naval expedition up the Parana River to Asuncion, Paraguay. After the vessel had been fitted out as a gunboat, she was commissioned under her original name on 27 October 1858, Comdr. Thomas T. Hunter in command.

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