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===Colony of Victoria stopover=== {{further|Australia and the American Civil War}} [[File:CSS Shenandoah world travels 1865.png|thumb|left|Map of ''Shenandoah''{{'}}s 12Β½-month voyage around the world (21st-century boundaries shown)]] Still short-handed, ''Shenandoah'' arrived at [[Melbourne]], [[Colony of Victoria]], on January 25, 1865, where she filled her complement and her storerooms.<ref name="baldwin, p. 85">Baldwin, p. 85</ref> She also signed on 40 crew members who had been stowaways from Melbourne. They were not enlisted until the ship was outside the Colony of Victoria's territorial waters.<ref name="baldwin, p. 85"/> The Shipping Articles show all 40 crew members had enlisted on the day of her departure from Melbourne, February 18, 1865. However, 19 of Waddell's crew deserted at Melbourne, some giving statements of their service to the United States Consul.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}
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