END OF THE SHENANDOAH.

Kumara Times, Issue 1063, 26 February 1880, Page 3

END OF THE SHENANDOAH.

A famous cruiser, which put into Melbourne towards the end of ,1864, and by so doing caused the Geneva Commissioners to add £3,100,000 to the Albania award, has foundered off the Island of Socotra, in the Indian Ocean, with most of her crew'. This vessel* the Shen&ndoah of former days, belonged, at the time of the disaster, to the Shltan of Zanzibar. She was built at Glasgow and launched under the name of Sea King. r She was purchased oil Sept. 20, 1864., for,the confederates and cleared out for Matamoros. She took her armameiit And stores on board at Madeira - , where Captain Waddell and his officers and crew embarked in her from the steamer Laurel, which had been, fitted out at Liverpool. Thence the Shedaudoah came on to Melbourne, and reifiaiiied _in Hobsons Bay until February, 1865. Subsequently, she destroyed eight whaling ships in the Arctic seas, and placed thir crews on Board the barque Milo, which conveyed the intelligence to San tran cisco. Other vessels shared a similar fate;, even after the termination of the civil war; for Captain Waddell refused to BblieVe the report that Richmond had fallen; hnd that General Lee had surrendered himself and the remains of his army to General Grant. On Nov. 6, 1865. the Shenandoah ran the Mersey, and the captain gave her up to the British authorities, by whom she was handed over to the consul of the United States; r . officers and men, to the number cf 133* being allowed to disband and depart. As a cruiser* she was scarcely less redoubtable than the celebrated Alabama, and her fine qualities, as regards build arid Speed* will be remembered by number's wlio tisited her while lying in Australian waters.