Editing CSS Shenandoah (section)

===Pacific raids===
[[File:Shenandoah_destroying_whale_ships.jpg|thumb|Shenandoah destroying whaling ships]]
''Shenandoah'' took only one prize in the Indian Ocean, but hunting became more profitable after refitting in Melbourne. En route to the [[North Pacific]] whaling grounds, on April 3–4, Waddell burned four whalers in the [[Caroline Islands]]. After a three-week cruise to the ice and fog of the [[Sea of Okhotsk]] yielded only a single prize, due to a warning which had preceded him, Waddell headed north past the [[Aleutian Islands]] into the [[Bering Sea]] and the [[Arctic Ocean]]. ''Shenandoah'' then proceeded to capture 11 more prizes.<ref name="baldwin247">Baldwin, pp. 238–254</ref>

The rich whaling grounds in the Bering Sea between [[Siberia]] and [[Alaska]] had been a safe haven for Yankee whalers for most of the American Civil War. This prosperous whaling ended in the spring and summer of 1865 when ''Shenandoah'' arrived and captured 20 of the 58 Yankee whalers working there. These whalers were destroyed more than a month after CSA President [[Jefferson Davis]] was captured on May 10, 1865.

On June 27, 1865, Waddell learned from a prize, ''Susan & Abigail'', that General [[Robert E. Lee]] had surrendered the [[Army of Northern Virginia]] almost three months earlier at [[Battle of Appomattox Court House|Appomattox Court House]]. ''Susan & Abigail'''s captain produced a San Francisco newspaper reporting the flight from [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] of the Confederate government 10 weeks previously. However, the newspaper also contained President Davis' proclamation that the "war would be carried on with renewed vigor."<ref name="last" /> Waddell then captured 10 more whalers in the space of seven hours just below the [[Arctic Circle]].

On August 3, 1865, Waddell learned of the war's definite end when ''Shenandoah'' encountered the Liverpool [[barque]] ''Barracouta'', which was bound for San Francisco. Waddell was heading to the city to attack it, believing it weakly defended.<ref name="whenliverpoolwasdixie.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.whenliverpoolwasdixie.org.uk/surrender.htm|title=Surrender of the Shenandoah|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626171650/http://www.whenliverpoolwasdixie.org.uk/surrender.htm|archive-date=2015-06-26}}</ref> He learned of the surrender of [[Joseph E. Johnston|Johnston's]] army on April 26, and [[Edmund Kirby Smith|Kirby Smith's]] army on May 26, and most crucially of the capture of President Davis. Captain Waddell then knew the war was over.<ref name="last">Hunt, Cornelius E. ''Last Confederate Cruiser, by one of her officers''. page 267</ref>

Captain Waddell lowered the Confederate flag, and ''Shenandoah'' underwent physical alteration. Her guns were dismounted and stowed below deck, and her hull was painted to look like an ordinary merchant ship.<ref name="Gaines">{{cite book|last=Gaines|first=W. Craig|title=Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks |publisher=Louisiana State University Press|location=Baton Rouge|year=2008|pages=13–25|isbn=978-0-8071-3274-6 <!--0807132748-->|oclc= 255822065|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=90d2LcmfpCcC&pg=PA20}}</ref><ref name="Thomsen">{{cite book|last=Thomsen|first=Brian M.|title=Blue & Gray at Sea: Naval Memoirs of the Civil War |publisher=Forge|location=New York |year=2004|series=Extracts from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion|pages=279–287|chapter=Abstract Log of C.S.S.Shenandoah, Lieutenant Commanding J.I. Waddell, C.S. Navy Commanding|isbn= 9780765308962|oclc=173166438|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rb202b80x6sC&pg=PA279}}</ref>

Names and dates of 38 vessels captured by CSS ''Shenandoah'', 1864–1865:
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* 1. October 30, 1864: the cargo [[Barque|bark]] ''Alina'' is [[scuttling|scuttled]] south of the [[Azores]], west of [[Dakar]], near {{Coord|16|47|N|26|43|W}}.
* 2. November 6: the cargo [[schooner]] ''Charter Oak'' of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], is burned in the mid-Atlantic at {{Coord|7|35|N|27|46|W}}.
* 3. November 8: the cargo bark ''D. Godfrey'' of Boston is sunk southwest of the [[Cape Verde Islands]], near {{Coord|6|28.5|N|28|24|W}}.
* 4. November 10: the cargo [[hermaphrodite brig]] ''Susan'' of Boston is scuttled southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
* 5, 6. November 12: the neutral cargo [[Full-rigged ship|ship]] ''Kate Prince'' of [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], is bonded for $40,000 at {{Coord|1|45|N|29|22|W}}; the prisoners are sent to [[Bahia]], Brazil. The bark ''Adelaide'' is [[ransom]]ed for $24,000 and released.
* 7. November 13: the cargo schooner ''Lizzie M. Stacey of Boston'' is scuttled and burned near the Equator.
* 8. December 4: the whaling bark ''Edward'' is burned off [[Tristan da Cunha]], near {{Coord|37|47|S|12|30.5|W}}.
* 9. December 29: the bark ''Delphine'' of [[Bangor, Maine]] is burned at {{Coord|12|13|S|68|33|E}} in the [[Indian Ocean]], {{convert|1550|km}} south-southwest of [[India]].
* From January 26 to February 17, 1865, repairs, crew recruiting and resupply was done at [[Hobson's Bay]], Australia.
* 10. April 3: the whaling bark ''Pearl'' of [[New London, Connecticut|New London]] is burned at [[Lohd Pah Harbor]] {{Coord|6|48|37|N|158|18|58|E}}, [[Pohnpei|Pohnpei Island]] in [[Federated States of Micronesia|Micronesia]].
* 11, 12. April 4: the whaling ships ''Hector'' of New Bedford and ''Edward Carey'' of San Francisco are burned at Lohd Pah Harbor.
* 13. April 10: the whaling bark ''Harvest'', nominally of [[Honolulu]], is also burned at Lohd Pah Harbor; at 7:30 AM, ''Shenandoah'' departs Lohd Pah Harbor for the [[Bering Sea]].
* 14. May 28: the whaling bark ''Abigail'' of New Bedford is burned in the [[Sea of Okhotsk]] at {{Coord|57|7|N|153|1|E}}, {{convert|1000|km|abbr=on}} north of the [[Kurile Islands]].
* 15–20. June 22: in the Bering Sea, the whaling ship ''Euphrates'', of New Bedford, is burned near {{Coord|62|23|N|179|46|E}}; the whaling bark ''Jirah Swift'', of New Bedford, is burned; the whaling ship ''Milo'' is bonded for $46,000; the whaling ship ''William Thompson'', of New Bedford, is burned northeast of Cape Narrows; the whaling bark ''Sophia Thornton'' of New Bedford is burned at {{Coord|62|40|N|178|50|W}}; and the brigantine ''Susan & Abigail'' of San Francisco is burned at {{Coord|62|48|N|179|4|W}}.
* 21. June 25: the ship ''General Williams'' of New London is burned near [[St. Lawrence Island]] in the Bering Strait at {{Coord|63|50|N|172|58|W}}.
* 22–27. June 26: the whaling barks ''Catherine'' and ''Isabella'' of New Bedford are burned in the Bering Sea at {{Coord|64|21|N|172|20|W}}; the whaling ship ''Gipsey'' is burned in the Bering Strait; the whaling ship ''William C. Nye'' of New Bedford is burned; the whaling ship ''Nimrod'' of New Bedford is burned near [[St. Lawrence Island]]; and finally, the whaling bark ''General Pike'' of New Bedford is bonded for $30,000, loaded with 252 prisoners, and sent off to San Francisco.
* 28–38. June 28: on this last and busiest day of captures, the whaler {{ship||Brunswick|1827 ship|2}} is burned near Bering Strait Narrows; the whaling bark ''Congress'' of New Bedford is burned near Bering Strait; the whaling bark ''Covington'' of [[Warren, Rhode Island]] is burned in East Cape Bay near Bering Strait Narrows; the whaling ships ''Favorite'' of [[New Haven]] and ''Hillman'', ''Isaac Howland'', ''Martha'' and ''Nassau'' of New Bedford are burned in East Cape Bay; the whaling bark ''Waverly'' of New Bedford is burned near the [[Diomede Islands]]; the whaling ship ''James Maury'' of New Bedford is bonded for $37,600 in East Cape Bay and retained for transporting prisoners to the United States; and finally, the whaling bark ''Nile'' of New Bedford is bonded for $41,000, loaded with 222 prisoners, and sent off to San Francisco.
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