The last CSS Ship of the line!

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gafinfangafinfanSupporterOP
Sep 23, 2010, 02:09 AM

The CSS Shenanadoah, there is also a photo of her in this link, a fine looking Lady if I say so myself!:up:

http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Navy_Ships/CSS_Shenandoah.html

Though Shenandoah 's late June assault on the whaling fleet was accompanied by many rumors of the Civil War's end, she did not receive a firm report until 2 August 1865, when she encountered an English sailing ship that had left San Francisco less than two weeks before. Waddell then disarmed his ship and set sail for England. Shenandoah rounded Cape Horn in mid-September and arrived at Liverpool in early November, becoming the only Confederate Navy ship to circumnavigate the globe.


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