From the Naval History and Heritage Command.
DON
(Screw steamer: 390 tons, 162 feet long, 23 foot beam, 12 foot 3 inches depth, d. 6', complement 43, 10-14 knots)
She was an iron, twin-screw, two-stacked running mate of Hansa as a blockade runner. Operated and partly owned by the State of North Carolina and are generally considered to have been public vessels for all practical purposes.
A man named Captain Cory commanded the Don when, as a still new , $115,000 ship carrying a $200,000 cargo of Army uniforms, blankets and shoes in from Nassau, she fell prey to the USS Pequot, 4 March 1864, on her third attempt that voyage to run into Wilmington, North Carolina.
She was purchased from the Boston prize court the next month and commissioned as the USS Don and assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She was sold to commercial interests 28 August 1868 after being stricken from the Navy Register.
--Old B-Runner
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