#css shenandoah

On This Day (October 20) in 1864, the British "extreme clipper" Sea King stops in Madeira for coaling, where she is sold to the Confederate States of America and transformed into the Confederacy's final commerce raider: the CSS Shenandoah.

For the next year the Shenandoah is the terror of the Seven Seas, capturing dozens of ships and crippling the whaling industry. In one week alone they capture over twenty-five ships in the Arctic Ocean.

Alas most of those prizes are taken after the Confederacy falls, making them illegitimate. The Shenandoah has been just ahead of the news for months, and when it finally catches up to them they have a major freakout.

In 1864 the Confederate States of America commissioned a privateer to destroy the American whaling industry. It succeeded beyond their wildest dreams… but not until after the war was over. Whoops.

Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/the-sea-king/

Key sources for this episode include Chester G. Hearn's GRAY RAIDERS OF THE SEA: HOW EIGHT CONFEDERATE WARSHIPS DESTROYED THE UNION'S HIGH SEAS COMMERCE; John Baldwin and Ron Powers' LAST FLAG DOWN: THE EPIC JOURNEY OF THE LAST CONFEDERATE WARSHIP; Lynn Schooler's THE LAST SHOT: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE CSS SHENANDOAH AND THE TRUE CONCLUSION OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; Terry Smyth's AUSTRALIAN CONFEDERATES: HOW 42 AUSTRALIANS JOINED THE REBEL CAUSE AND FIRED THE LAST SHOT IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; and Tom Chaffin's SEA OF GRAY: THE AROUND-THE-WORLD ODYSSEY OF THE CONFEDERATE RAIDER SHENANDOAH.

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