USS Quinnebaug (1875)

The second USS "Quinnebaug" was a screw corvette in the United States Navy.

"Quinnebaug" was completed under contract by Neafie & Levy at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, but she is occasionally listed as a rebuilt version of the first "Quinnebaug". She was launched 28 September 1875, but completion was delayed due to lack of government appropriations, [Heinrich, Thomas R. (1997): "Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism", John Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-5387-7, p. 71.] and consequently the vessel did not enter commission until 2 October 1878, when Commander Norman H. Farquhar took command.

"Quinnebaug" departed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 17 October 1878 for fitting out at Norfolk, Virginia. She got underway in January 1879 and reached Gibraltar 2 February to begin a decade of service on the European Station, interrupted only by a brief visit home in the summer of 1881. During this service she operated for the most part in the Mediterranean, steaming from the straits to the Levant and visiting numerous ports along both the European and African coasts of that ancient sea and center of culture. She also usually made an annual cruise along the Atlantic Coast of Europe visiting ports in Spain, Portugal, France, England, Denmark and Germany.

Departing Gibraltar 9 May 1889, "Quinnebaug" returned to the New York Navy Yard 17 June 1889. She decommissioned there 3 July, was struck from the Navy List 21 November 1889 and was sold 25 March 1891.

See USS|Quinnebaug for other ships of this name.

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