The USS Bermuda was built in 1861 and was first owned by Liverpool cotton broker Edwin Haigh.
Bermudaan iron-hulled screw steamerwas built in 1861 at Stockton-on-Tees, England, by Pearse and Lockwood to take advantage of the extraordinary profits which could be made by running cargoes of war-making materiel through the Union blockade to the munitions-hungry Confederacy. Originally owned by Edwin Haigh, a Liverpool cotton broker, the ship was secretly soldabout the time of her completionto Messrs. A. S. Henckle and George Alfred Trenholme of Charleston, South Carolina. 
