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The open sea is to the right. On the far bank of the Mersey is a square white building with two large doors. This is the Laird shipyard where the Laird Rams and the CSS Alabama were built, along with many Confederate blockade runners - also some Union ships were built here too. On the near Liverpool bank centre picture is a marina of small boats. This was Millers shipyard where the CSS Florida and Alexandra were built. The yard was replaced by the dock expansion. The docks to the right of the marina were all there in the 1860s and none to the left, just foreshore, except one dock just off picture to the left.

Where the Confederate flag was officially lowered and furled for the last time. To the left of Lairds on the far bank can be seen jetties - the Tranmere beach behind was where the Great Eastern was broken up. Between the jetties and Lairds towards mid-river, the Shenandoah dropped anchor near HMS Donegal on 6th November 1865, indicating she wanted to surrender to the RN. A RN detachment went over to the CSS Shenandoah and the Confederate flag was officially lowered for the very last time, and presented to Captain Paynter by Captain Waddell. Paynter gave the flag back to the Confederate crew who flew the flag at the top mast. The RN paroled the crew and fully occupied the vessel 4 days later and left the flag flying until the Yankees lowered the flag and ran up the Stars and Stripes in January 1866, when they attempted to take CSS Shenandoah back to America. Storms in the Irish Sea drove them back in port and the Shenandoah never went to America - she didn't want to.

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Continuing the above picture and now moving to the open sea. On the near Liverpool bank is a collection of brown brick warehouses. This is the Albert Dock where CSS Florida was fitted out.
http://liverpool.digimig.co.uk/p5593095.html All the docks in view would have had these types of warehouses - now most are demolished.

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To the bottom of the picture centre, there is some yellow hoardings and a crane. The old building behind was where Fawcett, Preston were. They built the cannons, and the first shot of the Civil War was shot from a cannon made here.

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The Great Float, Birkenhead on the far bank - now called West Float. This is a big expanse of water, the telephoto lens compresses the picture. Here the CSS Alabama (called Enrica) waited make sail. To the right of the picture is two large red brick warehouses. In front of them is along cigar shaped brown object. It is a German U boat raised from between Denmark and Sweden and the last to be sunk in WW2.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/anglican/anglican021.html
The row of houses running diagonally across the picture is Canning Street. This is where Commander Bulloch CSN lived and died - he also lived in Waterloo near the river mouth too. He never returned to America after the war. Bulloch with Frazer Trenholm procured Confederate vessels and provisions. The buildings to the bottom right, John Lennon once had an apartment there, But he was 100 years later :-)

John Dudley, the US consul to Liverpool commented that he saw groups of Confederate sailors walking down Canning St playing fifes and accordions singing Dixie. He also commented that more Confederate flags were flying over Liverpool and in Richmond, Virginia.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/birkenhead/anglican2.html
To the left of the cathedral the tops of the buildings in Canning St can be seen - viewed from Lairds. Also Millers shipyard would have been to the right on the far Liverpool bank.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/birkenhead/hmsbulwark2.html
To the right of HMS Bulwark the Alabama and the Rams were built. CSS Shenandoah would have surrendered between the two cranes near mid river.

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Princes Dock where CSS Shenandoah's crew left on the tender Laurel to rendezvous and commission Shenandoah. The Dock would have been surrounded by brick warehouses. View to the open sea.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/oldhambros/princes.htm
How Princes Dock would have looked in the 1860s.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/liverpoolimages/waterst.html
Water St. Frazer Trenholm was in Rumford Place off to the left, which is here: http://www.redstarline.org.uk/images/civilwar/rumfordplace.jpg
The US Consul was in Water St, about 2 minutes walk from the unofficial Confederate embassy in Rumford Place.

Digression: Just up Water St to the left is Oriel Chambers, built 1864. The world's first metal frame glass curtain walled building. The US architect Root was in Liverpool at this rime doing studies (rumoured he may have been avoiding the Civil War in the US) and was influenced by this advanced building. He designed the Reliance Building in Chicago in the 1890s, which is based on Oriel Chambers. Oriel Chambers was ridiculed and was 30 years ahead of its time. The root of the skyscraper is in Liverpool, not New York or Chicago. So, if Root had not gone to Liverpool besaue of the Civil war, mabe US skyscapers would have taken a different look.

John, Liverpool, England