High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Antona (1863) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a dispatch boat and gunship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. On the morning of 6 January 1863, the Union screw steamer Pocahontas sighted a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, steaming westward close to the Alabama shore and headed toward the entrance to Mobile Bay. Soon after the blockader had turned to intercept the stranger lest she reach the protection of the Southern guns at Fort Morgan -- then some nine miles away—the unidentified steamer altered her own course in an effort to escape.

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