April 7, 1889, she sank at Portsmouth Navy Yard when a drydock was inundated during a storm. Operations along the Atlantic Coast and a cruise along the coast of Africa ended when the ship returned to New York in May 1890. In August she headed back to familiar haunts in the Pacific, arriving in San Francisco on August 10, 1891. Following a visit to Hawaii, she decommissioned at Mare Island on April 18, 1892. Training and receiving ship, 1898–1911 Recommissioned on November 22, 1898, Pensacola served as a training ship for Naval apprentices until going back into ordinary on May 31, 1899. She was back in commission July 14, 1901, subsequently used as receiving ship at Yerba Buena Training Station, San Francisco until finally decommissioning on December 6, 1911, and struck from the Navy Register on December 23. She was burned and sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay near Hunters Point early in May 1912. See also Union Navy References (Pensacola and Wanaloset) See also Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Florida Steamships of the United States Navy Gunboats of the United States Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States Shipwrecks of the California coast 1859 ships Maritime incidents in April 1889 Ship fires Scuttled vessels Maritime incidents in 1912