Post-war Sale and Subsequent Career
Following the end of the Civil War, R. R. Cuyler returned to New York City where she was decommissioned on 1 July 1865 and sold at auction on 15 August to Russel Sturgis of New York.
In December 1866, she was purchased by the Republic of Colombia and, after arrival at Cartagena, renamed El Rayo. She remained in Cartagena Harbor, the subject of a diplomatic dispute following a change of government, from February to September 1867. In mid-September, she was blown from her moorings during a storm and grounded on a coral reef where she was abandoned.
One of the 30-pound cannon that was part of the battery on the USS R.R. Cuyler was presented to the town of Oyster Bay, New York by the U.S. Navy Department and unveiled by President Theodore Roosevelt in June 1903. The cannon can be seen today in Townsend Park, Oyster Bay, New York.
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