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When the CSS Shenandoah was repaired at Williamstown Victoria (Australia) in 1865 she was a tourist attraction and special trains were needed to bring visitor's to see her. When she put back to sea, forty-two Australians had secretly been recruited. So did these 'recruits" wear civilian clothing, or would of they somehow have been issued Confederate naval uniforms? If so would have cloth been purchased in Williamstown and turned into uniforms? Would the CSS Shenandoah had enough uniforms on board to issue them uniforms or enough cloth, already on board, to make them uniforms? Would some of the arriving crew members have need new uniforms as well?