When the Shenandoah hosted Royalty

[Saruman]

On it's journey across the Pacific, the Shenandoah stopped at Ascension Island (Pouinipete or Ponapi Island) and burned four Union whalers. I found these two accounts of a subsequent Royal visit quite entertaining:

"Captain Waddell courteously invited the King of Ascension (King Ish-y-Paw) and members of the Royal Household to visit the Shenandoah... The King arrived in the captain's gig, which had been sent for him, escorted by a fleet of canoes. Waddell and his officers received the visitors in full uniform, wearing their swords. The visitors were also formally dressed, in coconut-oil, which imparted a fine gloss to their skins, and emphasised the elaborate tattooing covering their bodies from head to foot. After examining the ship's guns and engines with cautious interest, and touring the ship, the Royal party sat down on the deck, to relax over pipes and conversation... 'Upon getting up to take their departure,' Mason noted, 'our guests unwittingly left a portion of their costume behind them, and the next morning we had extra work holy-stoning the deck.'"
- Rebel Down Under by Cyril Pearl.

"The King was presented with a sword, and in return, on the day before the ship's departure, he offered two chickens and a dozen coconuts as a present to his brother ruler, the great warrior Jeff Davis."
- Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast by Lindley S. Butler.

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Quite the amusing image.

 

[Llewellyn]

I suppose that Shenandoah's royal connections didn't end there.
After her surrender in Liverpool, the British government handed her over to the United States, which sold her back to an English businessman.
Then, in due course she was sold to the Sultan of Zanzibar.