First of the Confederate fleet to be lost was schooner "Black Warrior". She was fired on by the entire attacking force as they passed the Cobb's Point battery, so her crew abandoned her and set her afire. Likewise, "Fanny" was run ashore and burned. A boarding party from captured CSS "Ellis" in hand-to-hand combat. Her captain would have blown up "Ellis" but a coal heaver discovered the charges and revealed them to the boarding party. CSS "Sea Bird" attempted to escape, but was run down and sunk by . CSS "Beaufort" and "Appomattox" made good their escape into the Dismal Swamp Canal. There, "Appomattox" was found to be too wide to pass through a lock, so she was burned. CSS "Forrest", on the stocks to repair the damaged screw she had sustained on 8 February, was burned, along with an unnamed and uncompleted gunboat. CSS "Raleigh" was still at Norfolk, so she was not harmed. She and "Beaufort" were the only vessels in the Mosquito Fleet to escape either capture or destruction.