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Wednesday, 24 March 2021

American whaling bark General Pike bonded by the American CSS Shenandoah according to the newspaper The Pacific commercial advertiser dated 18 November 1865

An item described the American whaling bark General Pike of New York which was bonded, war insurance at the Ocean office for 5,000 US dollars reinsured at New York, USA.

Bonded by the CSS Shenandoah on 26 June 1865 for 30,000 US dollars, took 252 prisoners on board and was sent to San Francisco, USA. 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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