war, Tonawanda was decommissioned at the Washington Navy Yard on 22 December. She was reactivated on 23 October 1866 to serve as a training ship at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The ship was renamed Amphitrite on 15 June 1869 and she was decommissioned in 1872. By this time her wooden hull was rotting and she was sold for scrap in 1873 to Harlan and Hollingsworth Co. of Wilmington, Delaware. Although Congress was informed by the Navy Department that the Civil War-era ship was being repaired, a new iron-hulled monitor of the same name was built with repair money and the proceeds of her sale because Congress refused to fund any new construction at this time. Citations References Miantonomoh-class monitors Ships built in Philadelphia 1864 ships American Civil War monitors of the United States