Straits of Florida
On 9 April 1864 while bringing mail from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, she fired on English merchantman "Belle", coming from Matamoros, Mexico; but the British ship reached safety in the neutral port. On 25 February 1865, the steam tug captured British schooner "Salvadora" in the Straits of Florida heading for the Confederate coast with an assorted cargo.