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|Ship image= |Ship caption=In drydock at Williamstown, Australia, in 1865 |Hide header= |Ship country= |Ship flag= |Ship name=1st:Sea King, 2nd CSS Shenandoah, 3rd: El Majidi |Ship namesake= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry=Liverpool, Lloyds's A-1 |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=Alexander Stephen & Sons, River Clyde, Scotland |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=August 17, 1863 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired=1863 |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned=October 19, 1864 |Ship decommissioned=November 6, 1865 |Ship maiden voyage=Transport troops to New Zealand & return, 10 months|Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed=CSS Shenandoah |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship motto= |Ship fate=Surrendered to British authorities at Liverpool. Turned over to the U.S. Consul, Thomas Haines Dudley. Sold at auction in April, 1866 for £17,000. *approx. ($85,000. in 1866) to the Sultan of Zanzibar. |Ship status=Beached during hurricane, Zanzibar, 1872 |Ship notes= |Ship badge=|Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=Extreme clipper hull |Ship tonnage= |Ship displacement=1160 tons |Ship tons burthen= |Ship length=230 ft (70.1 m) |Ship beam=32.5 ft (9.9 m) |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft=20 ft 6 in (6.2 m) |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks=poop, main, berth |Ship deck clearance=7.5 ft (2.3 m) |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship power=200 HP A. & J. Inglis steam engine |Ship propulsion=14 ft (4.3 m) bronze propellor |Ship sail plan=Full rigged ship |Ship speed=8 kn (14.8 km/h) under steam 16 kn (29.6 km/h) under sail |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement=109 officers and men |Ship crew= |Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament=4 × 8 in (203 mm) smoothbore cannons, 2 × 12 pounder (5 kg) rifled Whitworth cannons, 2 × 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship notes= } |}CSS Shenandoah', formerly Sea King, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full rigged ship, with auxiliary steam power, captained by Commander James Waddell, Confederate States Navy, a North Carolinian with twenty years' service in the United States Navy. During 12½ months of 1864 � 1865 the ship undertook commerce raiding resulting in the capture and sinking or bonding of thirty-eight Union merchant vessels, mostly New Bedford whaleships. This ship is notable for firing the last shot of the American Civil War, at a whaler in waters off the Aleutian Islands. |
