C.S.S. Shenandoah logbook, 1864 Oct. 16-1865 Oct. 23.

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C.S.S. Shenandoah logbook, 1864 Oct. 16-1865 Oct. 23.

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Logbook of the Confederate States of America cruiser Shenandoah, Capt. James I. Waddell, commanding. the log was kept by Capt. Irvine S. Bulloch, Acting Master. Contains a list of officers on board and notes of the ships captured, the value of their cargoes, and the disposition of the prize (some were ransomed and others were burned). At the beginning of the period covered by the log, the ship set sail in the general direction of Australia and arrived at Melbourne, Jan. 25, 1865. After it left Australia and headed northward toward Hawaii, it attacked many whaling vessels. Included in the collection is a printed circular by R. C. Wyllie, with four manuscript endorsements relative to claims of Hackfeld & Company, 1865 Aug 12-Dec. 2, against the Confederate steamer Shenandoah for burning the Hawaiian bark Harvest.

1 linear ft. (1 v. and 1 item)

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Wyllie, Robert Crichton, 1798-1865

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Robert Crichton Wyllie was born in East Ayrshire, Scotland, on October 13, 1798. He received a medical diploma from the University of Glasgow and left Scotland as a ship's surgeon, intending to travel to Russia. Instead he settled in Chile in 1818, and in 1824 traveled to India, stopping first in Hawaii. Wyllie went to England in 1830 and grew a small banking fortune. In the 1840s he visited Mexico, and in 1844 sailed to Hawaii, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He was appointed Mi...

Waddell, James I. (James Iredell), 1824-1886

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Shenandoah (Cruiser)

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Bullock, Irvine S.

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Confederate States of America. Navy

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Built in Philadelphia as the Habana, the CSS Sumter was originally used as a blockade runner in New Orleans. In 1861, she was purchased for use by the Confederate Government. Under the command of Raphael Semmes, she captured a number of Union flag merchant ships off the coasts of Cuba and South America, as well as other locations in the western hemisphere. When her boilers became unfit for use and repairs and supplies could not be obtained, she was sold at public auction at Gibraltar on December...

Hackfeld & Company.

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Harvest (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by Benjamin F. Riddell. From the description of Log/journal, 1853 Aug. 9-1857 Nov. 8. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70965324 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by David N. Edwards; owner-agent: Harrison G.O. Dunham Co. From the description of Log/journal, 1828 Nov. 18-1831 Nov. 15. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013309 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucke...