Built at the Boston Navy Yard, the USS Canandaigua was a sloop-of-war named for the area of New York just south of Lake Ontario. Launched in the midst of the Civil War, she was designed to help ...

Philip Spencer of Canandaigua always wanted to be a pirate ... were put to death at sea for plotting to take over the USS Somers. Theirs is said to be the only mutiny in U.S. Navy history.