Regardless of whether she was a commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy, she accompanied Dewey's fleet when it departed Hong Kong in April 1898 and served as a collier and supply ship during the Battle of Manila Bay and the ensuing Philippines Campaign.
(A collier is a bulk coat ship, also carries supplies, in case you're wondering.
The lack of documents covering her activities inj1898 and the first half of 1899 precludes any history of her service during that time. Presumably she plied the waters of the Philippines carrying troops, supplies and dispatches between those points..
Based at Cavite on Luzon, she is known to have performed such missions during the period of time from latter 1899 and June 1904. Those movements in support of the U.S. Army's suppression of the Philippines Insurrection and campaigns against the Moslem Moro tribesmen took her to a host of exotic places throughout the islands.
On 10 June 1904, the Zafiro was placed out of commission at Cavite and her name was struck from the Navy List on 15 January 1906. On 21 October 1910 she was sold to Mr. J.W. Zeeve of Seattle, Washington.
--Cooter
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