Post-war Decommissioning, Sale, and Subsequent Civilian Career
She was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 28 June 1865 and sold at auction there on 10 August 1865. Documented as SS Britannia on 8 September 1865, the steamer served under the American flag as a merchantman until sold abroad in 1886.
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