On September 15, 1863, the Nantucket captured the British steamer Jupiter at sea. (Monitors were fairly slow. I'd sure like to know how that happened.)
The Nantucket again fought the Charleston forts on May 14, 1864 and remained on blockade duty until the end of the war.
Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on June 24, 1865, she remained in ordinary for a decade. Renamed the Medusa 15 June 1869, she took back the name Nantucket 10 August 1869. (A lot of U.S. ships changed their names during that period. Again, I wonder why?)
Transferred to the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, in 1875, the Nantucket was twice briefly recommissioned 29 July to 12 December 1882 and 16 June to 6 October 1884, and operated along the northern east coast of the U.S..
Sher again lay in ordinary in New York until turned over to the North Carolina Naval Militia in 1895. During the Spanish-American War the ship was stationed at Port Royal, South Carolina.
After being condemned as no longer fit for service, the Nantucket was sold at auction in Washington, D.C., on 14 November 1900. A total of five bids were received for the vessel, with the winning bid of $13,111 made by Thomas Butler & Co. of Boston.
The auction was said to have drawn a lot of interest because of the historic nature of the vessel.
--Old B-Runner
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