2, and was in command of the pilot-boats Phantom, Friend, Haze, Clarence Barclay, Edwin Forrest, Pet, and Gracie.

[1] In November 1861, during the American Civil War, Hayden was dispatched by the government to Newport, Rhode Island, to bring the steamer San Jacinto to Boston.

On board were two Confederate diplomats James Murray Mason and John Slidell who were taken from a British mail packet RMS Trent.

Captain Hayden anchored the San Jacinto in the channel, and the two men were moved to Fort Warren.

They were then released on New Year's Day, 1862, and taken to Provincetown, Massachusetts, to board HMS Rinaldo for passage to London.