USS Tristram Shandy (1864) USS Tristram Shandy (1864) USS "Tristram Shandy" (1864) was a 444-ton steamer and blockade runner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. With her Parrott rifle installed, she was used by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederate States of America to prevent the South from trading with other countries. "Tristram Shandy" took her name from the hero—and the shortened title—of the novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", which was written by Laurence Sterne between the years 1759 and 1767. She was a schooner-rigged, iron-hulled sidewheel steamer completed in
Sentimental Journey (Ringo Starr album) release to promote it – and number 22 in the US. The album sold 500,000 copies in the US, within the first two weeks of release. Among his fellow Beatles, in an interview with BBC Radio's Johnny Moran, George Harrison described "Sentimental Journey" as "a great album" and "really nice". Conversely, John Lennon told "Rolling Stone" editor Jann Wenner in December 1970 that he was "embarrassed" by Starr's debut. Starr later said of "Sentimental Journey": "The great thing was that it got my solo career moving – not very fast, but just moving. It was like the first shovel of