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Wednesday, 24 March 2021

American whaling bark Nimrod burned by the American CSS Shenandoah according to the newspaper The Pacific commercial advertiser dated 18 November 1865

An item described the American whaling bark Nimrod of 340 tons of 340 tons, owners William Gifford and others reported in May as clean. Value including outfitds when she departed on 15 April 1863 32,000 US dollars, war insurance consisted of 4,000 US dollar at the Ocean Office at New Bedford, USA reinsured at New York, USA and another 20,000 US dollars at New York.

Burned by the CSS Shenandoah end June 1865 near St. Lawrence island. 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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