With a tonnage of 217 tons were her dimensions 214’ x 20’ x 8’ although other sources mentioned as dimensions 220’x 20’4’x 10’ (http://users.wowway.com/~jenkins/ironclads/famous.htm) and a speed of 11-15 knots or even 252'x 31'x 11' by a tonnage of 439 tons. Her hull was steel build and she run 8 times with success though the Union blockade off Wilmington with as result 700% profit for her owners. She was then captured by the US Navy. The website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Banshee_(1862) mentioned a side wheeler blockade runner built in 1862 at Liverpool, England captured by the USS Grand Gulf and the US Army Fulton on 21 November 1863, purchased on 12 March 1864 and commissioned as the USS Banshee on 14 June of the same ywarwith a displacement of 1,200 tons and a of 533 tons burden with as dimensions 210’4”x 34’6”x 20’6”, a speed of 11,5 knots and with a coal bunker capacity of 533 tons a range of 3,000 nautical miles. As a warship consisted her armament of 1-100pdr gun and 2-30 pdr guns. After the Civil Was she on 30 November sold and became the merchant ship T.L. Smalwood sometimes called J.L. Smalwood. In 1867 became she British property, was rechristened Irene and was still in serviced in the 1890’s.
One source suggests that there was a second blockaderunner with this name still active in January 1865 with a speed 15½ knots and as dimensions 252'x 31'x 11' by a tonnage of 439 tons
