Talk:CSS Shenandoah

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En route to the Cape she picked up six prizes -- What's a prize? Do I need to be a naval or civil war historian to understand this article?

A captured ship. You must have been home that day. --Wetman 11:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is that a same article?

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CSS Shenandoah (1864)? Can anybody fix it? RamBow 11:48, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's been merged into this article and is now a redirect. JamesMLane t c 23:47, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Question re effect on U.S.-flag shipping

I don't understand this passage in the article (final paragraph of text):

A recent historian of the Shenandoah has assessed Waddell's depredations at dealing a death-blow to the New England whaling industry and crippling Union shipping: in 1860, two-thirds of the shipping tonnage leaving New York harbor was in American ships. Three years later foreign shipping, especially that of Great Britainy, carried three-quarters of the trade.

If the latter datum is from "three years later" than 1860, then it's from 1863. The Shenandoah wasn't commissioned until 1864. How can it have been responsible for the observed decrease in American shipping earlier in the war? JamesMLane t c 23:46, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]