M. PEARSE & COMPANY., STOCKTON-ON-TEES
| Name | BERMUDA |
| Type | Iron Cargo, rigged as Brig |
| Yard Number | 34 |
| Launched | 08/07/1861 or 09/07/1861 |
| Completed | 08/1861 |
| Off. Number | 42608 |
| Engine builder | Fossick & Hackworth, Stockton-on-Tees |
| Engine type | Steam, 135 hp. |
| GRT | 897 net |
| Length (feet) | 215.0 (223 o.a.) |
| Beam (feet) | 29.0 |
| First owner | Pearse & Company, Liverpool |
| History | Reported
sold before completion to Fraser, Trenholm & Co.,
Liverpool & Charleston, S. Carolina, for use as a
blockade runner. An alternative source states originally owned by Edwin Haigh, Liverpool and secretly sold to A. S. Henckle and George Alfred Trenholme, Charleston, S. Carolina |
| 27/04/1862 on her 2nd 'run' across the Atlantic she was captured by USS MERCEDITA near Great Abaco Island, Bahamas. | |
| 14/10/1862 (or 1863?) Sold by Philadelphia Prize Court to US Government as a supply and dispatch vessel in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. | |
| 21-22/09/1865 Sold to Samuel C. Cook, and later renamed GENERAL MEADE. | |
| Later renamed BAHAMAS | |
| Fate | 10/02/1882 Foundered in a storm on voyage Puerto Rico to New York. |
For more on BERMUDA's history, see wikipedia.
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