Bermuda Islands as a stop off for New York Bound immigration ships?

I have two ancestors who were passengers on the Globus ship that departed Bremenhaven, Germany in Nov 1860 with a destination of New York. In Jan 1861, the ship caught on fire and even though all but one passenger survived the ordeal and were rescued, there was a trial that occurred when the crew returned to Germany to account for the ship which sank and the one passenger who drowned. In the court transcription which I was able to obtain, the captain and crew mentioned that before the fire occurred, as part of their expected course, they were to go to Bermuda. I don't understand why part of their planned itinerary was to go to Bermuda when they were taking a ship full of German immigrants ultimately to New York. Does anyone know if a stopover in Bermuda was something that immigrant ships were do regularly when crossing the Atlantic, perhaps to refuel or to add more provisions, before heading northwest from Bermuda to New York?