United States Training Ship
U.S.S. Yantic

Yantic, an 1864 wooden hull gunboat, was based at Hancock, Michigan, from 1907 to 1917, on loan from the U.S. Navy for use as a training ship for the second battalion of the Michigan Naval Militia. In addition to drilling and training local units in Hancock and Escanaba, Michigan, the ship also took part in annual maneuvers with other state naval militias on the lower lakes.

Although Yantic only spent a brief portion of its active life in Michigan's Copper Country, the ship played an important role in local military training and was a notable part of the waterfront landscape of Hancock and Houghton during the zenith of copper production.

Yantic, docked at Ripley near Hancock, Michigan. Photograph courtesy of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections, Reeder Collection Negative #N-9.