Assigned To The North Atlantic Blockade
After about a fortnight’s towing duty that took her to Fort Monroe and Baltimore, Maryland, Berberry departed Philadelphia on 29 September and reached Beaufort, North Carolina, on 1 October for duty in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Two days later, she took station off the New Inlet entrance to North Carolina’s Cape Fear River where she labored to help tighten the blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina.
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