to deliver the officers and crew of the wrecked steamer Governor. Vandalia soon returned to duty with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and was deployed off Tybee Roads, Georgia, in December. She remained at Tybee until April 1862, at which time she was ordered to proceed to the blockade at Wassaw Sound, Georgia. The sloop returned to Port Royal, South Carolina, in late June and took up blockade duty off Charleston in July. She served at Port Royal as a guardship in September and was repaired and resupplied there in November. Later that month and in December, she cruised along the outside line of the blockade off Charleston and Port Royal Bay, performing reconnaissance duties as well as giving practical sailing experience to recent Naval Academy graduates. On 29 December, the vessel was ordered north for major structural repairs at New York, having sprung a leak under her magazine. Vandalia was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 4 February 1863 and then sailed for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 17 October for use as a receiving and guard ship. She remained at Portsmouth until broken up there sometime between 1870 and 1872. See also Union Navy References Notes Bibliography US Navy Dept. (1901). Official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the War of the Rebellion. Gov't Printing Office. Mexican–American War ships of the United States Sloops of the United States Navy Ships built in Philadelphia Ships of the Union Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States 1828 ships