 She sailed from Hull on 28 May 1862 for London to load cargo for Beaufort, North Carolina.Captured by Union gunboat while attempting to run the blockade in Ossawbaw Sound, South Carolina, on 4 August 1862, "Lodona" was taken to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under Lt. C. H. Greene for adjudication.Condemned, she was purchased by the Navy from the Philadelphia Prize Court on 20 September 1862 and commissioned as USS "Lodona" at Philadelphia Navy Yard on 5 January 1863 with Acting Lieutenant Edmund R. Colhoun in command.