Continued North Carolina Operations
Ready to resume action late in November, Berberry departed Hampton Roads on the 23rd and headed back to waters off New Inlet. She arrived there on the morning of the 26th and, that night, her guns persuaded an unidentified blockade runner to give up her attempt to escape to sea and to retire to Wilmington, North Carolina.
Early in December, illness compelled Ens. Griffith to request relief and Ens. Robert W. Browntree took command of the tug on 4 December. On the 10th, a severe storm battered the tug and forced her to return to Beaufort for repairs.
Mid-month found Berberry still at Beaufort in the Sounds of North Carolina, and she served there through the end of the year. On 3 January 1865, Acting Ens. Peter C. Asserson took command of the tug that then returned to blockade duty off New Inlet. She operated there until 26 February. She then returned to Beaufort and operated in the sounds until after the collapse of the Confederacy. The tug left North Carolina's inland waters on 29 May and reached Hampton Roads the next day.
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