desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: After her capture by the Confederate privateer York in the North Atlantic Ocean 110 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Havana, Cuba, with a cargo of potatoes, a complete sugar mill, and three large iron tanks, the brig was beached by her Confederate prize crew on the coast of North Carolina near Chicamacomico.