 After being treated as "little lions", the officers of the "Shenandoah" later reflected that the best time of their lives was given to them by the women of Melbourne.After leaving Australia, the "Shenandoah" sailed north into the Pacific Ocean and captured twenty-five additional Union whaling ships before finally surrendering at Liverpool, England in November, 1865.Those surrendering included 42 Australians who had joined the crew at Williamstown; sources differ as to whether the Australians were stowaways or illegally recruited.