CSS Shenandoah surrenders in the Mersey at Liverpool
November 6, 1865, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- Date
- November 6, 1865
- Where
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- What happened
- Surrendered
- Event
- 174 of 174
CSS Shenandoah sailed more than 9,000 nautical miles from off Mexico, round Cape Horn, to Liverpool, where Confederate agent James Bulloch was based. Captain James Waddell surrendered her to HMS Donegal in the River Mersey on November 6, 1865, the last surrender of the war. Britain handed the ship to the United States.
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