Sunday, May 17, 2015

May 28, 1865---Lost in the fog of war



MAY 28, 1865:           

Far from the usual cruising grounds of Confederate commerce raiders, the skipper of the C.S.S. SHENANDOAH has no idea that the Civil War is at its end. The commerce raider thus remains on war patrol in the Russian Sea of Okhotsk. Today she finds and burns the bark ABIGAIL, out of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in a dense fog. Although the late Spring is prime whaling season in the vast and icy Sea of Okhotsk, the fog is so thick that sailors cannot see from the main to the fore, and most whaling ships have sought safer waters for the time being. The ABIGAIL is unluckily fog-bound and is discovered only when SHENANDOAH nearly rams her. 


No comments:

Post a Comment