CSS Tallahassee-- Part 2: Built for Chinese Opium Trade, Became a Blockade Runner

From Wikipedia.

The CSS Tallahassee was a twin screw iron steamer  and cruiser in the Confederate Navy, purchased in 1864, and used for commerce raiding off the U.S. Atlantic coast.  She later operated under the name of CSS Olustee and CSS Chameleon.

It was named after the capital of Florida and was built on the River Thames by J & W Dudgeon of Cubitt Town , London, for London, Chatham & Dover Railway Co. to the design of T.E. Symonds, ostensibly for the China opium trade.

She was previously the blockade runner Atalanta and made the Dover-Calais English Channel crossing in 77 minutes on an even keel.  The ship made several runs between Bermuda and Wilmington, N.C., as the Atalanta before the Confederacy bought her.

I am unable to find any information on a blockade runner named Atalanta.

--Old B-Runner