An item described the American whaling bark Isabella of 315 tons, owners Thomas Knowles&Co. and others, New Bedford, USA. Value including outfits when she departed on 29 September 1863 30,000 US dollars, War assurance of 1,000 US dollars at the Commercial office, 2,000 US dollars at the Union Mutual (later reinsured at New York, USA and another 8,000 US dollars at New York.
Burned by the CSS Shenandoah on 26 June 1865 in the Bering Sea. 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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