With the Shenandoah unable to proceed any further into the Sea of Okhotsk, the crew reluctantly abandons Siberian waters and start sailing out through the Kuril Straits, and towards the Arctic Circle. For three weeks there has been only one prize.

With a large part of the crew recovering from the biggest (and northernmost) hangover of their lives, the Shenandoah attempts to continue its cruise in the Okhotsk sea, off the coast of Siberia. - Following the shipboard breakdown in discipline due to...

After a month of little excitement, the CSS Shenandoah captures the whaler Abigail, in the Okhotsk Sea off the coast of Siberia. The Abigail is carrying twenty barrels of whale oil, but also has fifty barrels of brandy, rum, whiskey and gin,

As the CSS Shenandoah prepares to steam into the Sea of Okhotsk, things are getting decidedly chilly. In three weeks of sailing and steaming the ship has gone from 100 fahrenheit temperatures (38 celsius) to a below freezing 26 (-3 Celsius).

The Shenandoah forges ever northwards towards the sea of Okhotsk, and their path takes them near to the Kuril Islands, an archipelago running between Japan and Russia. Rob and Mob examine the complicated history of these islands,

As the Shenandoah continues her journey into the Northern Pacific Midshipman Mason wonders if the ventilation duct  in the Midshipman's berth is about to turn from a turn from a pleasant supply of cool tropic breezes  to a less pleasant supplier of arc...

As the Shenandoah scuds north, towards towards the Russian sea of Okhotsk (not to be confused with toddlers fashion label Oskosh Bigosh) they look in vain for a sail on the 'China Path', the route between San Francisco and the Orient. With not a prize in

As the Shenandoah moves deeper into the Pacific Michael and Robert are delighted to welcome Hawai‘i Pacific University associate professor of History Justin Vance, who has just been   named the 2015 Hawaii History Educator of the Year.

The peregrinations of the CSS Shenandoah this week take it to the island Kingdom of Pohnpei, where four Yankee whaler captains out on a 'Bust' get the worst possible introduction to their hangover, a Confederate warship arrived to loot and burn them. But

With the Shenandoah about to land in Pohnpei in what is now the Federated States of Micronesia, Rob, Mob and guest Rick Meints step back a bit to consider events in early April in the sideshow theatre of the American Civil War that was actually happening