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A fact from USS Spuyten Duyvil appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 April 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the American Civil War, an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee's withdrawal?

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Wikified, with slight re-ordering of sections. - Leonard G. 17:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The controversy over the meaning of the name "Spuyten Duyvil" properly belongs in the article over the geographic place named "Sputyen Duyvil", from which this ship is definitvely named, rather than on the ship's article.Intersofia (talk) 18:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]