The following is from the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships and can be seen at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a11/aries-i.htm

The first Aries was laid down in 1861 at Sunderland, England, by James Laing's Deptford yard. Built during the American Civil War in the hope that she would be purchased by persons planning to break the Union Navy's blockade of the South, this iron-hulled, screw steamer was completed in 1862 and sold later that year to Frederic Peter Obicino of London, England. She was resold, apparently sometime in 1863, to the Cuban firm, V. Malga & Cie, of Havana.

Does anyone have information on this V. Malga (thought to be Victor Malga)? Victor Malga was related to the family of William P. Hall who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861.

Thanks.