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Final Disposition, run aground, 10 February 1862, and blown up by her captain who escaped with his crew to shore "Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865," Naval History Division, 1966:3 August 1861 -- John La Mountain made first ascent in a balloon from Union ship Fanny at Hampton Roads to observe Confederate batteries on [Sewalls] Point, Virginia—a small beginning for the potent aircraft carrier in the tri-dimensional Navy of the twentieth century.
26 August 1861 -- Squadron under Flag Officer Stringham, USS Minnesota, USS Monticello, USS Pawnee, Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane, US tug Fanny, and two transports carrying about 900 troops under Major General Butler, departed Hampton Roads (later joined by USS Susquehanna and USS Cumberland) for Hatteras Inlet, NC, for first combined amphibious operation of the war. Hatteras Inlet was the main channel into Pamlico Sound and the most convenient entrance for blockade runners bringing supplies to the Confederate Army in Virginia. The Navy early recognized the strategic importance of the inlet and invited the Army to cooperate in its capture. The operation was designed to check Confederate privateering and to begin the relentless assault from the sea that would divert a large portion of Confederate manpower from the main armies.
US tug Fanny, Lieutenant Crosby, reported the capture of the blockade running sloop Mary Emma at the headwaters of the Manokin River, Maryland.
1 October 1861 -- Confederate naval forces, including CSS Curlew, CSS Raleigh, and CSS Junaluska. under flag Officer William F. Lynch, CSN, captured steamer Fanny in Pamlico Sound with Union troops on board. Colonel Claiborne Snead, CSA, reported: "The victory was important in more respects than one. It was our first naval success in North Carolina and the first capture made by our arms of an armed war- vessel of the enemy. and dispelled the gloom of recent disasters. The property captured [two rifled guns and large amount of army stores] was considerable, much needed, and highly esteemed. . ."
10 February 1862 -- Following the capture of Roanoke Island, a naval flotilla, including embarked Marines, under Commander Rowan in USS Delaware, pursuing Flag Officer Lynch's retiring Confederate naval force up the Pasquotank River, engaged the gunboats and batteries at Elizabeth City, North Carolina. CSS Ellis was captured and CSS Sea Bird was sunk; CSS Black Warrior, Fanny, and Forrest were set on fire to avoid capture; the fort and batteries at Cobb's Point were destroyed.
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