High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fern sailed the east coast, carrying coal and general cargo to various bases, locating and destroying by gunfire wrecks of ships obstructing navigation, and assisting in the precommissioning trials of new ships. After 22 January 1898 she was based at Key West, Florida to carry mail and supplies to the increasing number of ships which concentrated in the Caribbean as war with Spain threatened. When war began in April, Fern continued her runs from Key West to the squadron off Santiago, Cuba and to Guantanamo Bay. During the Battle of Santiago de Cuba on July 3, 1898 the ship was commanded by Herbery Winslow.

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