Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin da ake shirya jirgin don tafiya ta biyu zuwa Bahar Rum, Sakataren Sojan Ruwa ya umarci jirgin zuwa Mexico don taimakawa wajen nuna karfi a gabar tekun Vera Cruz. A nan shi ne babban jirgin ruwa na Gidan Gida tsakanin Fabrairu da Disamba 1846, yana aiki a Gulf of Mexico a lokacin yakin Mexican-American karkashin umurnin Cmdre. David Conner da Kyaftin Thomas Dulay. Kyaftin Faransanci Forrest daga baya ya dauki umurnin lokacin da Dulay ya yi rashin lafiya. Sauran manyan jami'ai a cikin wannan jirgi sun kasance abokan gaba na yakin basasa Raphael Semmes da John Winslow. Jirgin ya kula da shinge na gabashin tekun Mexico don mafi yawan yakin. Ta shiga cikin hare-hare da dama da aka yi a tashar jiragen ruwa na Mexico, kafin ta gudu a ranar 28 ga Yuli a bakin tekun Alvarado. An 'yantar da jirgin kuma kamfanin jirgin ya shiga cikin wani hari a Tabasco. Ƙarƙashin ƙasa ya lalata ta isa ya tilasta ta ta yi ritaya zuwa Norfolk don gyarawa. Ma'aikatanta, duk da haka, sun kasance a baya kuma sun canza jiragen ruwa tare da ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na "Raritan", wanda ya kasance a teku har tsawon shekaru uku. Tsohon ma'aikatan sun shiga cikin Siege na Veracruz
a matsayin wani ɓangare na baturi na Naval.