coast, arriving Boston Navy Yard on 16 January 1862. Macedonian spent most of the next two years with the West Indies Squadron. In July 1863 she cruised along the coast of Portugal with sloop-of-war hunting Confederate States ship . It was around then that Alfred Thayer Mahan served aboard for a brief time. From the end of that year through 1870, Macedonian served as school and practice ship for midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, first at Newport, Rhode Island, then after the civil war at Annapolis, Maryland. In 1871 she was laid up in ordinary at the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she was sold to Wiggin and Robinson for merchant service. Post-navy There is no record of Macedonian having actually sailed as a merchant ship, and the next reference to the ship, in 1900, mentions her as having been converted into the Macedonia Hotel at City Island, Bronx. The hotel was sold in 1912 and renamed the City Island Casino, but burned down on 9 June 1922. The naval origin of the Macedonian Hotel was mentioned in a Ripley's Believe It or Not item in 1983. See also Glossary of nautical terms (A-L) Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z) List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy References James T. de Kay, Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian (W.W. Norton, New York, 1995) External links Log of the United States Ship Macedonian, 1865 MS 136 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy Sailing frigates of the United States Navy Ships built in Portsmouth, Virginia Ships of the Union Navy 1836 ships Ship fires Maritime incidents in 1922