OCTOBER 30TH, 1864: The CSS Shenandoah, Lt. Waddell, captured and scuttled the bark Alina south of the Azores and due west of Dakar, Africa. The Alina, a new bark on her maiden voyage, was the Shenandoah's first prize and carried a cargo of railroad iron.
Waddell wrote: "It was fortunate my first capture could be scuttled, for the steamer's position was good and a bonfire would have given alarm to all Yankees within 30 miles, and then, too, a cruiser might have been in the neighborhood, which would have [been] attracted by the red flare of the sky and interfered with our fun...we were forced to destroy our prizes because we were not allowed to take them into a neutral port [for] adjudication."
--Old B-Runner
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