An item described the American whaling bark Brunswick value with outfits was 32,000 US dollars, insured for around 30,000 US dollars.
Burned by the CSS
Shenandoah on 28 June 1865 near the Bering Strait Narrows. Confederate commerce
raider, launched as the British merchant ship Sea King on 17 August 1863 by
Alexander Stephen&Sons, River Clyde, Scotland with yard number 42, purchased
by the Confederates, fitting out ready on 18 October 1864, commissioned on 19 October
1864, surrendered on 6 November 1865, sold in 1867 to the sultan of Zanzibar Majid
bin Said and renamed El Majidi and finally sunk in September 1872.
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