MAY 17TH, 1865: After weathering an earlier typhoon, the CSS Shenandoah encountered a second, less violent, blow. "The weather continued so threatening that it looked impossible for the Shenandoah to get north of the parallel 45, but the last gale, like its predecessor, had worked to the westward, and the ship began to make her northing again," Wassell recorded.
"On the 17th of May we were north of the parallel of 45 and the weather, though cold, looked more settled, and we took a long breath."
Hate Those Storms At Sea. --Old B-R'er
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