She was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts. At 19&colon;00 the identifying lights in the mizzenmasts of the British fleet were lit. She arrived in Spithead in November 1861 with only jury-rigged fore and mizzenmasts. She steamed to Spithead in November 1861 with only jury-rigged fore and mizzenmasts. "Strafford" and "Canterbury" pounded Africa until its main- and mizzenmasts fell.