Late in 1861, during the American Civil War, the USS Navy purchased her to sink her in January 1862 as a harbour obstruction.

[4] Whaling voyage #2 (1844-1847): Captain Baker sailed in June 1844 for the Indian Ocean and the northwest coast of North America.

[5] Whaling voyage #3 (1848-1851): Captain George G. Benjamin sailed in August 1848 for the west coasts of South and North America.

Although she was originally destined for Savannah in January, the Navy sank her as an obstruction to Southern shipping in Wilmington Narrows, Lazarette Creek, Georgia, in April 1862.

[2] In 1890 a whale was killed in the Bering Sea with a "toggle" harpoon head in its body bearing Montezuma's mark.