Upon commissioning, the ship was orederd to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, which she did on 2 December 1861 and then south to Wilmington, North Carolina, to blockade that port.
On 13 December 1861, she scattered an encampment of Confederates at Little River Inlet, South Carolina. Twelve days later, she captured the prize William N. Northrup, running the blockade with a cargo of drugs and coffee.
Next, the Fernandina discovered the schooner Kate out of Nassau, Bahama, aground on 2 April 1862. After taking her papers, the Kate was burned as they were under fire of Confederates ashore
The Fernandina was transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 11 June and joined it off Charleston, South Carolina, Aside from the summer of 1863, when she sailed north for repairs, she was at St. Simons, Georgia and at St. Catherine's, Georgia, and in the Ossabow Sound.
She captured the sloop Annie Thompson 16 January 1864 after it had run aground.
Detached from the squadron 3 April 1865 and sent north, she was decommissioned at Philadelphia 29 April 1865 and sold 2 June 1865.
--Old B-Runner
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