at Smith's Landing, Texas, and the subsequent foray down the Matagorda Peninsula. On 4 April, Sciota captured the schooner Mary Sorly attempting to run the blockade at Galveston with a cargo of cotton. She had previously been United States Revenue Cutter, Dodge, seized by the Confederates at Galveston at the war's outbreak. Sciota continued operations on the Texas coast through the summer. On 13 September, she came across a large quantity of cotton afloat at sea, picked up 83 bales, and sent them to New Orleans. On 27 October, she captured Prussian schooner, Pancha Larispa, attempting to run through the blockade into either Velasco or San Luis Pass, Texas. The next day, she took Cora Smyser while that British schooner vainly attempted the same feat. Sunk while clearing mines In November, Sciota was ordered to Pensacola, Florida for repairs. In January 1865, she steamed to Mobile Bay to help clear torpedoes from the waters there. On 14 April, the day of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, she struck a torpedo and sank off Mobile, Alabama. Her commanding officer, Acting Lieutenant James W. Magune, reported: The explosion was terrible, breaking the beams of the spar deck, tearing open the waterways, ripping off starboard forechannels, and breaking fore-topmast. Hulk raised and sold Early in July, she was raised. Her hulk was sold at public auction at New York City on 25 October 1865. References * External links Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Philadelphia Steamships of the United States Navy Unadilla-class gunboats American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States Shipwrecks of the American Civil War Shipwrecks of the Mississippi River Shipwrecks of the Alabama coast Ships sunk in collisions Ships sunk by mines Captured ships 1861 ships Maritime incidents in July 1863 Maritime incidents in April 1865