THE OLD "SHENANDOAH."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 819, 26 June 1879, Page 2

THE OLD "SHENANDOAH."

Says "Atlaßß"in the World:— * " Every-body has heard of the Shenandoah, the notorious privateer of the Southerners m the American Civil War; bitt I do not suppose that many know what was the ultimate fate of the ship when the war ended. Of all places m the world, she now lies "fathoms deep " off the island of Socotra, m the Arabian Gulf. He story is a strange one. She was busy burning whalers m Behring's Straits; when Waddell, her oomraander, f the. " mildest-mannered man 'who ever > scuttled ship or cut a throat/ heard of the collapse of the South. His occupation being gone, and being without home or harbor to which he durst with safety return, he ran the Shenandoah to Liverpool, and immediately surrendered her to H.M.S. Donegal m the Mersey. She was handed over to the - American Consul, and afterward* * brought at auction by Nicol, Fleming • and Co — a firm that has earned a notoriety m connection with the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank— for the Sultan of Zanzibar. After remaining idly at Zanzibar for some years, she was sent to Bombay for .repairs, -bjSft foundered ofTSocqtra, all hands beifcg lost except: one Englishman and a few Larcars. Amongst the crew of the Shenandoan during her piratical crjAiti ing waa a young. Temple, a ne P^^f^' the late Lord Palmerston. HeTWs known on board, as V the boy., Jones." I met him some years afterwards at - Rangoon; and on my informing him that inquires had. been made/ by (his friends at home concerning him, he said ' that he was aware of 'the faoi, buthw name was now— Macintosh, r ■■; ■• 7