 There, revitalized and configured as a single-ender, the veteran warship resumed her role as a dispatch vessel and continued performing as such for almost a decade.Shortly before midnight on 24 August 1884, "Tallapoosa" collided with schooner "J. S. Lowell" and sank about five miles from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.After the ship had been raised and repaired by the Merritt Wrecking Company, she was recommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 11 January 1886.