A 3-mast steam schooner with a tonnage of 550 tons and as dimensions 220’x 25’ x10 while the 200hp supplied by the steam engine allowed a maximum speed of 13 knots. Built in Scotland, maybe at the yard of Hoby&Son. In 1863 purchased by the Confederates. She was in the beginning successful transporting cotton and ammunition but when the condition of her boilers deteriorated was she at Bermuda sold to messrs. W.W. Finney, B.F. Fichlen and J.R. Anderson representing the Tredegar Iron Works. Richard Squires was taken into service to preserve her at the end of the civil war lying at Nassau, Bahamas for these owners but she was seized by him and brought as a prize to Baltimore in December 1865.
