Pembina Captures Her First Prize, The Rowena
Continuing to cruise off the Georgia and northern Florida coasts she escorted transports and covered troops as they assaulted Confederate positions and, on 9 April, as they evacuated Jacksonville, Florida. In May she shifted to the Carolina coast for operations in the Stono River where on 6 June seized her first prize the schooner Rowena.
Later shifted to the U.S. Gulf Coast, she captured a second vessel, sloop Elias Beckwith, near Mobile, Alabama, 23 April 1863.
Remaining on the Gulf Coast she seized her third and last blockade runner, the Dutch brig Geziena Hilligonda, carrying medicines, iron and cloth, off Brazos Santiago, Texas, 4 December 1864. After the war she returned to the U.S. East Coast.
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