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CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known for her actions under Lieutenant Commander James Waddell as part of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
James Iredell Waddell (July 3, 1824 – March 15, 1886) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy.. During the American Civil War, Waddell took command of the CSS Shenandoah, which he used to sail around the globe and launch raids against the U.S. Navy.
Top picture CSS Lady Davis May 18, 1861 CSS Teaser at the right CSS Governor Moore. CSS A. B. Seger, dispatch boat, run aground 1 November 1862; seized and placed in service by the Union; CSS Anglo-Norman, side-wheel steamer, burned or captured April 1862 [40] CSS Appomattox, tugboat, burned February 10, 1862; CSS Bartow, schooner
The last Confederate surrender took place in Liverpool, United Kingdom on November 6, 1865, aboard the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah when her flag (battle ensign) was lowered for the final time. This surrender brought about the end of the Confederate navy. The Shenandoah had circumnavigated the globe, the only Confederate ship to do so.
The CSS Shenandoah was commissioned as a commerce raider by the Confederacy to interfere with Union shipping and hinder their efforts in the American Civil War. A Scottish-built merchant ship originally called the Sea King , it was secretly purchased by Confederate agents in September 1864.
Having crossed the Indian Ocean, the CSS Shenandoah arrived in Australian waters on 17 January 1865. Off the coast of South Australia at 39°32′14″S 122°16′52″E / 39.53722°S 122.28111°E / -39.53722; 122.28111 , her crew spotted an American-made sailing ship named the Nimrod and boarded
CSS Alabama operated in the Pacific for only a few weeks in the southwest Pacific, capturing three ships. CSS Shenandoah was the second and last Confederate raider to enter the Pacific Ocean. However, her attacks came too late, at the end of the war or afterward, and did most of her damage after the war was over, capturing 38 vessels, mostly ...
English: "Destruction of Whale Ships off Cape Thaddeus Arctic Ocean June 23 1865 by the Conft Stmr Shenandoah" Colored lithograph of an artwork by B. Russell, depicting CSS Shenandoah's assault on the U.S. whale ships in the Bering Sea area.