Short answers, pulled from the story.
The ship named Sea King launched from the yards of Alexander Stephen & Sons in Glasgow on the 17th of August 1863. It was built for Robertson & Co. to serve the East Asia tea trade or transport troops before being purchased by the Confederate navy.
Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell supervised the conversion to a man-of-war and commanded the vessel throughout its twelve-and-a-half month cruise. He captured 38 merchant vessels, mostly whaling ships from New Bedford, Massachusetts, while hunting the Pacific whaling fleet.
Captain Waddell surrendered his ship at the port of Liverpool where Commander Bulloch was stationed on the 6th of November 1865. The crew raised the Confederate flag fully flying as she sailed up the River Mersey between Toxteth in Liverpool and Tranmere in Birkenhead.
Shenandoah traversed 58,000 miles carrying the Confederate flag around the globe for only time. Her voyage took three months covering over 14,000 miles from off the west coast of Mexico via Cape Horn to Liverpool.
Majid bin Said renamed her El Majidi after himself and owned her until a hurricane hit Zanzibar on the 15th of April 1872. She sank days later in Gulf of Aden off Socotra in November 1879 with few survivors.