After the Texans' defeats at the Battle of the Alamo and Battle of Goliad, the Navy had to move its operations further up the coast to Galveston. After the Texans' victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, Hawkins ordered the fleet south again to blockade the port of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Eventually the poor state of the Texan ships forced them all into port with the "Independence" going to New Orleans for retrofitting in September 1837. There, in February