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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate cruisers. (search)
sel built for the Bombay trade, which had made only one voyage; and in September she was purchased, her ostensible owner being a British subject who acted privately as Bulloch's agent. On the 8th of October the Sea King cleared from London for Bombay, carrying coal as ballast, and with Lieutenant Whittle of the Confederate navy on board as a passenger. On the same day the Laurel, a fast steamer, purchased ostensibly for a blockade-runner, sailed from Liverpool with a cargo containing six gunwhere the passengers and cargo were transferred, and the Sea King was put in commission as the Confederate States ship Shenandoah, under the command of Waddell. Contrary to his expectation, most of the seamen who had been shipped for a voyage to Bombay refused to join the Shenandoah's crew when her real character was known. She was therefore obliged to start with only 23 seamen instead of 120, which was her complement. The Shenandoah proceeded first to Melbourne. On her way she met nine Am