USS Bermuda-- Part 1: Former Blockade-Runner

I had never heard of the USS Bermuda before I wrote yesterday's blog entry.  It had quite an interesting naval career.\\From Wikipedia.

Formerly a blockade runner captured by the Union Navy and then bought in prize court for U.S. service and used primarily as a cargo and transport ship primarily along the Florida coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Was launched in 1861 and captured by the United States on April 27, 1862, and bought around March 5, 1863.211 feet long, 21.7 foot beam,  16.8 foot draft, 11 knots, 122 crew, armament one nine-inch smoothbore gun and two 30-pdr. Parrott rifle cannons.

Its speed and depth had a lot to do with its role a s a blockade runner as well as its use as a blockader.

--Old B-Runner