 Upon seeing the approaching Union ship, the schooner's crew righted their vessel—which they had careened for caulking—and cast adrift a cotton-laden, flat-bottomed barge which had been moored to a nearby wharf while the schooner was being prepared for an attempt to run the blockade.The schooner began leaking rapidly the moment she was again upright, and was soon swamped.Kittredge returned to "Corypheus", and got underway ".