USS Bermuda-- Part 6: Supplying the Blockading Fleets

The USS Bermuda made sixteen round trip voyages to the Gulf of Mexico, most of the time resupplying the ships of Farragut's West Gulf Blockading squadron  Besides supplies, she also carried passengers, usually officers and enlisted men going to and from blockade duty, sick men returning north to recuperate and prisoners captured afloat

On return trips, the Bermuda often had captured cotton.or ashore.

Other spots the Bermuda visited on her first voyage were Key West, Tampa Bay, St. Mark's and Pensacola.  After that, she provisioned the ships of the Mobile blockade, entered the Mississippi River and spent a week in quarantine and to New Orleans.

Then, it was on to Farragut's fleet off Galveston.  It then returned home, stopping at many of the same places.

--Old B-Runner