On 22 July 1861, while "Albatross" was chasing a sailing vessel near Hatteras Inlet, a black man jumped overboard and shouted, "Save me, captain, she's bound to Charleston." While lowering a boat to pick up the man, "Albatross" turned her guns on the schooner and ordered her to heave to. That vessel, "Enchantress", a schooner of Newburyport, Massachusetts, which had been captured on 6 July by Confederate privateer "Jefferson Davis", promptly surrendered. Commander Prentiss, considering the five crewmen captured with the schooner to be pirates, had them put in double irons. He placed Master's Mate Tunis D. Wendell in charge of the prize over a crew consisting of five Union sailors and the rescued man who had been on "Enchantress" when she surrendered to the Southern privateer.