CSS Shenandoah was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged ship, with auxiliary steam power registered in Liverpool, England in 1865. She was purchased by the Confederacy and secretly moved from England to the Canary Islands, to convert her into a fighting ship. Over the next six weeks, Shenandoah scoured the South Atlantic, destroying or bonding over eight Union ships, before developing a problem with her propeller shaft, off the coast of South America. To avoid patrolling Union warships she sailed to Melbourne, 9600 kilometres away.

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Size: 5360px × 3696px
Location: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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