USS Vandalia (1876)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Vandalia |
| Namesake: | Vandalia, Illinois |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 1872 |
| Commissioned: | 10 January 1876 |
| Decommissioned: | 1884 |
| Recommissioned: | 15 February 1886 |
| Fate: | Wrecked 16 March 1889 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Screw sloop |
| Displacement: | 2,033 long tons (2,066 t) |
| Length: | 216 ft (66 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Armament: | 8 guns |
The second USS Vandalia was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. She was laid down at the Massachusetts Boston Navy Yard in 1872 and was commissioned there on 10 January 1876.
Vandalia was soon deployed with the European Squadron and spent most of the next three years cruising in the Mediterranean along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey. The ship put into Villefranche, France, in October 1877, and left on 13 December with the former President, General Ulysses S. Grant, and his party as passengers. During the next three months, the screw sloop of war touched at ports in Italy, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece before Grant and his party disembarked at Naples on 18 March 1878. After making several more Mediterranean cruises, Vandalia received orders to return to the United States later that year. She put into Boston on 13 January 1879 and departed on 7 April, bound for Norfolk, Virginia, and duty with the North Atlantic Squadron.
Vandalia remained with the North Atlantic Squadron for five years. During this time, she performed patrol, reconnaissance, and convoy escort duty off the eastern seaboard of the United States. The vessel was also active off the Grand Banks, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. Vandalia was detached from the squadron in 1884 and put out of commission at the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 14 October for a thorough overhaul.
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