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

An item described the American whaling ship Nassau, value at the departure 48,000 US dollars, insured for 61,000 US dollars.

Burned by the CSS Shenandoah on 28 June 1865 in the East Cape Bay near the Bering Strait. Confederate commerce raider, launched as the British merchant ship Sea King n 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.