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Revision as of 16:16, 20 November 2017
The list of shipwrecks in 1864 includes any ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1864.
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January
1 January
Ship | State | Description |
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John B. White | ![]() |
American Civil War: The tug was sunk by a Confederate mine in the waters of Virginia.[1] |
Sylvanus | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner with a cargo of salt, liquor, and cordage, was hit at the waterline with an 11-inch (279-mm) shell and driven ashore in Doboy Sound, Georgia, by the gunboat USS Huron (![]() |
Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner with a cargo of turpentine, was burned at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by a landing party of United States Navy and United States Marine Corps personnel from the gunboat USS Nipsic (![]() |
2 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Bendigo | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 178-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina west of Lockwood Folly Inlet. Her crew set fire to her and abandoned her. The screw steamer USS Fahkee (![]() ![]() |
3 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Grafton | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island. Some members of the crew survived. |
7 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Dare (or The Dare) | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Aries and USS Montgomery (both ![]() |
10 January
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Iron Age | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed screw steamer ran aground in Lockwood's Folly Inlet, North Carolina. After salvage efforts failed, she was set afire and blown up by her crew on either 11 or 14 January (sources disagree) to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[2][8] |
11 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Flora | ![]() |
The 571-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean while steaming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Bermuda, for repairs.[9] |
Ranger | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of ammunition, rifle muskets, and other arms, the 500-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina one mile (1.6 km) west of Lockwood's Folly Inlet by the steam frigate USS Minnesota, the armed screw steamers USS Aries and USS Daylight, and the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham (all ![]() |
Vesta | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the sidewheel paddle steamers USS Keystone State and USS Quaker City and the sloop-of-war USS Tuscarora (all ![]() ![]() |
14 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Emma Jane | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 1,097-ton full-rigged ship, bound in ballast from Bombay, India, for British Burma, was captured and burned in the Indian Ocean southwest of India off India′s Malabar Coast at 07°59′00″S 76°04′45″E / 7.98333°S 76.07917°E by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama (![]() |
Young Racer | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, a blockade runner with a cargo of salt, was forced to run herself aground on the coast of Florida 15 miles (24 km) north of Jupiter Inlet by small boats from the bark USS Roebuck (![]() |
19 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Grey Fox | ![]() |
The 70-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky.[15] |
22 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Henry Fitzhugh | ![]() |
The 217-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank after striking ice on the Ohio River near Shawneetown, Illinois. She later was refloated.[15] |
Mary | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the sloop sprang a leak, ran aground, and was wrecked on the coast of Florida while en route from Jupiter Inlet to Key West under the control of a United States Navy prize crew. A blockade runner, she had been captured by boats from the bark USS Roebuck (![]() |
25 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Thomas J. Patten | ![]() |
The 118-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Walker's Bend below Memphis, Tennessee.[17] |
28 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Evansville | ![]() |
The 155-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.[18] |
Luzerne | ![]() |
The 179- or 180-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at Crawford's Landing, Mississippi.[19] |
Moderator | ![]() |
The 231-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[20] |
29 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Jenny Ford (or Jennie Ford) | Unknown | The 396-ton bark, bound in ballast from San Francisco, California, to Puget Sound in Washington Territory, either ran aground in San Francisco County, California, or struck a rock and sank off North Head on the coast of Washington Territory with the loss of one life.[21] |
31 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Mill Boy | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying a Union Army cargo consisting of forage, stores, and a cannon, the 86-ton sternwheel paddle steamer parted her anchor rope on the White River in Arkansas during a storm, drifted nine miles (14.5 km) downstream, struck a snag, capsized, and sank nine miles (14.5 km) above Jacksonport, Arkansas. Union forces salvaged the cannon, but the ship and the rest of her cargo were lost.[22] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Malabar | Unknown | The schooner was wrecked at Mendocino, California.[23] |
Undine | ![]() |
The 158-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank after hitting ice on the Ohio River at New London, Indiana, near Payne Hollow, Kentucky. Her cabin separated from her hull when she sank and went over the falls at Louisville, Kentucky.[24] |
February
1 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Belle Creole | ![]() |
The 206-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee, with the loss of one life.[25] |
Planet | ![]() |
The 604-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at College Point in St. James Parish, Louisiana.[26] |
USS Smith-Briggs | ![]() |
American Civil War, Battle of Smithfield: After being disabled by enemy fire, running aground in the Pagan River at Smithfield, Virginia, and being captured by Confederate troops on 31 January, the sidewheel gunboat on 31, was set on fire by the Confederates. She was destroyed by an explosion when the flames reached her store of black powder.[27] |
Wild Dayrell | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Nassau in the Bahamas and trying to run the Union blockade with a cargo of blankets, provisions, and supplies, the 440-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near New Topsail Inlet and Stump Inlet. The armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Sassacus (![]() ![]() |
2 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Iona | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 368-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, was 24 hours into a voyage from Queenstown, Ireland, to Nassau in the Bahamas when she foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island.[29] |
Frederick the Great | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of gunpowder, lead, percussion caps, rope, liquor, and other goods, the schooner ran aground on the coast of Texas near the mouth of Caney Creek while under pursuit by boats from the armed screw steamer USS Queen (![]() |
Firecracker | ![]() |
The 1,040-ton steamer foundered on the Yangtze River in China 50 miles (80.5 km) above Kiukiang.[30] |
Presto | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 500-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner with a cargo of stores, liquor, blankets, bacon, ham, and other goods, struck the wreck of the screw steamer Minho (![]() ![]() |
USS Underwriter | ![]() |
American Civil War: While anchored in the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina, the sidewheel gunboat was boarded and captured by a Confederate States Navy boat expedition. While she was under fire by Union-held Fort Anderson, the Confederates stripped her and set her on fire, and she exploded.[2][32] |
3 February
Ship | State | Description |
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B. C. Levi | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of military stores and passengers that included 28 Union Army soldiers – among them Brigadier General Eliakim P. Scammon (![]() ![]() |
5 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Daniel G. Taylor | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 543-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed on the Ohio River with the loss of one life by a fire set by Confederate infiltrators.[15] |
Dick Fulton | ![]() |
The 66-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Point Pittsburgh with the loss of one life after colliding with Hawkeye (flag unknown). She was refloated and rebuilt.[15] |
Nutfield | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Sassacus (![]() ![]() |
6 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Dee | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 200-ton screw steamer – a blockade runner carrying a cargo of ammunition, bacon, coffee, distilled spirits, guns, and lead ingots – ran aground on a shoal off North Carolina one mile (1.6 km) south of Masonboro Inlet. Sailors from the armed screw steamer USS Niphon captured her on 7 February, lightened her, and attempted to tow her off, but burned her after she grounded again.[2][7] One source claims that the gunboat USS Cambridge (![]() |
9 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Spunkie | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Trying to run the Union blockade with a cargo of blankets, shoes, and provisions, the 166-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina just west of Fort Caswell. The armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Quaker City (![]() ![]() |
10 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Colonel Stell | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank accidentally in Galveston Bay off Pelican Island, Texas. The Confederates quickly raised and repaired her and returned her to service.[35][36] |
Emily of London | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 355-gross ton screw steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of gunpowder, salt, and war materials from Bermuda, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina north of Masonboro Inlet on the night of 9-10 February. Sailors from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Florida (![]() |
Fanny and Jenny | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 497- or 727-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner carrying cargo of bacon, gunpowder, liquor, an expensive jeweled sword for General Robert E. Lee from British sympathizers, and (according to one source) a quantity of coal, and rumored to be carrying a shipment of gold, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near Masonboro Inlet. A party from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Florida (![]() |
Peri | ![]() |
The brigantine was wrecked at Skysea, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew were rescued.[39] |
17 February
18 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Ad. Hine | ![]() |
The 94-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag on the Arkansas River 8 miles (13 km) below Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and sank in 8 feet (2.4 meters) of water in five minutes. She was refloated and returned to service.[44] |
20 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Kaskaskia | ![]() |
The 49-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Grand Chain on the Ohio River.[45] |
22 February
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Linden | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer sank after striking a snag on the Arkansas River 15 miles above its confluence with the Mississippi River. |
24 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Charles Henry | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned by a gig from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell and the gunboat USS Currituck (both ![]() |
Gratitude | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned by a gig from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell and the gunboat USS Currituck (both ![]() |
Nan-Nan (or Little Lila) | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Fleeing from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nita (![]() |
27 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Rebel | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton, liquor, salt, and boxed goods, was captured abd destroyed by boats from the bark USS Roebuck (![]() |
Westward Ho! | ![]() |
The clipper burned and sank while at anchor at Callao, Peru. |
29 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Cassie Holt (or Catherine Holt) | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: After being captured in the Gulf of Mexico in San Luis Pass inside Galveston Island off Galveston, Texas, by the mortar gunboat USS Virginia (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Lizzie Baron | ![]() |
The schooner sank off Lamar, Texas.[49] |
St. Mary′s | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 337-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of cotton, was scuttled by her crew on 7 or 9 February to prevent her from being captured by the gunboat USS Norwich (![]() |
March
1 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Archimedes | ![]() |
The steam schooner was wrecked on a sandbar at the mouth of the Meuse River in the Netherlands during a storm. Her crew was rescued by local lifesaving personnel. |
2 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying ammunition and other assorted cargo, the 80-ton schooner was run aground and burned by her crew in Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida when the schooner USS Annie (![]() |
3 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Sophia | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was discovered aground in Altamaha Sound, Georgia, by the schooner USS Dan Smith (![]() |
3-4 March (overnight)
Ship | State | Description |
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Arletta | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of alcohol, coffee, and whiskey, the 35-to-50-ton schooner was forced aground on the south end of Tybee Island on the coast of Georgia by the gunboat USS South Carolina (![]() ![]() |
6 March
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Peterhoff | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The former yacht, operating as a patrol vessel, was rammed and sunk off New Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello (![]() ![]() |
7 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Titan | ![]() |
American Civil War: After being captured on 5 March by a Confederate States Navy raiding force, the tug was pursued by the gunboat USS Tulip (![]() ![]() |
8 March
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Conestoga | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 672-ton timberclad sidewheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of two lives less than four minutes after colliding with the sidewheel paddle steamer USS General Price (![]() |
9 March
Ship | State | Description |
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A. J. Sweeney | ![]() |
Loaded with a cargo of corn and 28 horses, the 244-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a bridge abutment, burned, and sank without loss of human life in the Cumberland River near Clarksville, Tennessee. She later was refloated and dismantled.[53] |
10 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Helen | ![]() |
Departing Charleston, South Carolina, during a gale to run the Union blockade and carry a cargo of cotton to Nassau in the Bahamas, the 185-register ton steamer was wrecked on Bowman's Jetty at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Only one person on board survived.[2][54] |
11 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Julia Baker | ![]() |
American Civil War: The schooner was boarded and burned by Confederate guerrillas near Newport News, Virginia.[2] |
Seagull | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of oysters, the full-rigged ship came ashore on Brigantine Beach near Atlantic City, New Jersey, full of water and with her crew missing.[55] |
14 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Marion | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The badly leaking 12-to-18-ton schooner was sunk by the gunboat USS Aroostook (![]() |
15 March
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS Countess | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground in the Alexandria Falls on the Red River of the South near Alexandria, Louisiana, and was burned by her crew to prevent her capture by advancing Union forces.[2][56] |
Fanny Bullitt | ![]() |
The 438-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Napoleon, Arkansas.[18] |
20 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Spread Eagle | ![]() |
The 389-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at either Pickney Bend or Washington, Missouri.[57] |
21 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Clifton | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 892-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of Texas at Sabine Bar on the west side of Sabine Pass while trying to run the Union blockade. Unable to refloat her, her crew threw her cargo overboard and burned her to prevent her capture by Union forces.[36] |
Wild Pigeon | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Havana, Cuba, to Florida, the 37-ton schooner sank immediately with the loss of one crewman after being rammed amidships by the screw steamer USS Hendrick Hudson (![]() |
21-22 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Emily | Unknown | The schooner ran aground on a beach on the coast of Texas below Velasco and quickly filled with sand and water.[58] |
22 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Buffalo | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Taken as a prize by the bark USS Braziliera (![]() |
24 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Julia Baker | ![]() |
American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate guerrillas in Virginia near Chuckatuck Creek.[1] |
25 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Alice Dean | ![]() |
The 394-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a bank on the Ohio River 10 miles (16 km) below Cincinnati, Ohio, and sank. Jennie Hubbs and Lady Pike (nationalities unknown) took off her passengers and cargo. She later was refloated.[59] |
Decotah | ![]() |
Troops under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest (![]() |
Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt and leather, the schooner was burned at Swansboro or Morehead City, North Carolina (sources disagree), by a joint Union Army-United States Navy landing party consisting of personnel from the 158th New York Infantry Regiment (![]() ![]() |
28 March
Ship | State | Description |
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J. H. Russell | ![]() |
American Civil War: On a voyage to New Orleans, Louisiana, with a cargo of cattle, cotton, hogs, mules, and seed, the 416-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Plaquemine, Louisiana, by a fire set by a Confederate agent.[61] |
USS Kingfisher | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 451-ton bark was wrecked off the coast of South Carolina on a shoal on the Combahee Bank in Saint Helena Sound near the south end of Otter Island. She was abandoned on 5 April.[62] |
Tempest | ![]() |
The 63-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio.[24] |
Woodford | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 487-ton sidewheel hospital steamer was wrecked and sank on the Red River of the South while going over the Alexandria Falls near Alexandria, Louisiana.[63] |
Unidentified schooner | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with a cargo of cotton, the schooner was destroyed in Matagorda Bay off the coast of Texas by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Estrella (![]() |
29 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Avon | ![]() |
American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of 1,600 tons of guano from Howland Island to Cork, Ireland, was captured, used as a gunnery target, and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 15°11′N 34°25′W / 15.183°N 34.417°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
Florence | ![]() |
The 399-ton steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River near Atchison, Kansas.[66] |
30 March
Ship | State | Description |
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Columbia | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 44-ton screw tug burned on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.[2][52] |
Etta | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was destroyed near Cedar Key, Florida, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Sagamore (![]() |
Unidentified schooner | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was destroyed near Cedar Key, Florida, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Sagamore (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Leon | ![]() |
The 87-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Burnum, Arkansas.[67] |
Susan Douglas | ![]() |
The brig was wrecked at Samasana, off Formosa. The captain[68] and at least 10 crew survived. The crew were picked up from Samasana by the gunboat HMS Bustard (![]() |
William Barnhill | ![]() |
Towing barges carrying empty oil barrels, the 149.47-ton sternwheel towboat struck a canal aqueduct on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and sank.[71] |
April
1 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Fair Haven | ![]() |
The 474-ton screw steamer was stranded at Cape Henry, Virginia.[72] |
Key West No. 4 | ![]() |
The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River at Paw Paw Landing, Arkansas, 20 miles (32 km) below Little Rock, Arkansas.[67] |
Maple Leaf | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 508-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a transport carrying baggage of the 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment,112th New York Infantry Regiment, and 169th New York Infantry Regiment (all ![]() ![]() |
2 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Jackson | ![]() |
The 84-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana.[61] |
4 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Matilda | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 390-register ton screw steamer sank, either in the Firth of Clyde off Scotland or in the Bristol Channel at Lundy Island.[29] |
5 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Jo Jacques | ![]() |
The 34-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois, after colliding with General Anderson (flag unknown).[45] |
New Falls City | ![]() |
American Civil War: Confederate forces sank the 880-ton sidewheel paddle steamer as a blockship in the Red River of the South in Louisiana at the foot of Scopern's Cutoff, one mile (1.6 km) above Loggy Bayou.[75] |
12 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Adams | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer, carrying a cargo of United States Army quartermaster′s stores and ammunition, collided with the steamer Chippewa (![]() |
La Crosse | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 186-ton sternwheel or screw steamer burned at Egg Bend, Louisiana.[76] |
13 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Rosina | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was forced aground off San Luis Pass, Texas, by the armed screw steamer USS Virginia (![]() |
15 April
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Eastport | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The ironclad ram was sunk by a Confederate mine on the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was destroyed on 26 April to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. |
Rosina | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was forced aground and destroyed off San Luis Pass, Texas, by the screw steamer USS Virginia (![]() |
16 April
Ship | State | Description |
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General Hunter | ![]() |
American Civil War: The transport struck a Confederate mine near Mandarin Point in the St. Johns River in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Florida, and sank with the loss of one life.[2][78] |
17 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Lecompte | ![]() |
The 250-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South in Louisiana 10 miles (16 km) above Campti.[79] |
18 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Bombshell | ![]() |
American Civil War: The armed transport tug was sunk by Confederate artillery batteries in North Carolina, either in Albemarle Sound or on the Roanoke River at a dock in Plymouth (sources disagree). The Confederates raised and repaired her and placed in service as the gunboat CSS Bombshell (![]() |
Good Hope | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt and dry goods, the ca. 150-ton schooner was captured and burned at the mouth of the Homosassa River in Florida by the schooner USS Fox (![]() |
19 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Falls City | ![]() |
The 183-ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in Loggy Bayou in Louisiana.[82] |
USS Southfield | ![]() |
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22 April
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Petrel | ![]() |
American Civil War: After being disabled in combat with Confederate forces on the Yazoo River in near Yazoo City, Mississippi, the tinclad wooden paddle steamer was captured by the Confederates, stripped of her guns and stores, and burned. |
23 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Hastings | ![]() |
The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Alexandria, Louisiana.[40] |
Rockingham | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 976-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of guano from Callao, Peru, to Cork, Ireland, was captured, used for gunnery practice, and then burned in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde Islands near 15°53′S 31°44′W / 15.883°S 31.733°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama (![]() |
26 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Champion No. 3 | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Transporting freed African-American slaves, the 195-ton sidewheel tug and pump steamer was wrecked on the Red River of the South in Louisiana five miles (8 km) above the mouth of the Cane River when a shell fired by the St. Mary's Cannoneers Louisiana Artillery Regiment (![]() |
Homer | ![]() |
American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Ouachita River off Camden, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. |
27 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Champion No. 5 | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 184-ton sidewheel tug and pump steamer was disabled on the Red River of the South in Louisiana five miles (8 km) above the mouth of the Cane River by Confederate sharpshooters and cannon fire by the St. Mary's Cannoneers Louisiana Artillery Regiment (![]() |
Tycoon | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 717-ton bark, carrying a cargo of expensive clothing and other merchandise from New York City to San Francisco, California, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean east of Salvador, Brazil, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama (![]() |
30 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Amelia | ![]() |
The schooner was lost near Point Judith, Rhode Island.[71] |
Chippewa Valley | ![]() |
The 101-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Cumberland River in Tennessee 5 miles (8 km) below Gallatin Landing.[89] |
Grecian | ![]() |
The brig was wrecked on Nine Mile Beach, New South Wales, Australia, during a gale. |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Idaho | ![]() |
American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk accidentally by a United States Navy gunboat in the Ohio River. She later was refloated.[15] |
Juanita | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, under the control of a United States Navy prize crew after being captured off San Luis Pass, Texas, by the armed screw steamer USS Virginia (![]() |
St. Mary′s | ![]() |
American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk on the Alabama River in Alabama by a Confederate mine. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[50] |
Two unidentified torpedo boats | ![]() |
American Civil War: The torpedo boats were destroyed in a large cotton fire at Wilmington, North Carolina.[91] |
May
1 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Emma | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 385-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned by a Confederate States Army artillery battery on the Red River of the South in Louisiana near Fort DeRussy.[82] |
3 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
City Belle | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: While carrying between 400 and 725 troops of the 120th Ohio Infantry Regiment (![]() |
Express (or Experiment) | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade, the schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton from Galveston, Texas, to Tampico, Mexico, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas by the armed screw steamer USS Virginia (![]() |
Jean Goujon | ![]() |
The ship was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba, to Le Havre, France, with a cargo of sugar, when, in a storm at night, her captain mistook his position and steered south of the rocks he thought were the Les Casquets. The rocks were, in fact, the Écréhous and by steering south he accidentally ran the ship onto the rocks off Jersey in the Channel Islands. The crew was saved.[92] |
Pauline | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 135-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Shreveport, Louisiana.[75] |
5 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Covington | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Badly damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry on the Red River of the South, the gunboat was burned by her crew off Alexandria, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. Her commanding officer and 32 of her crew avoided capture and escaped to Alexandria.[56] |
John Warner | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry and artillery on the Red River of the South near Marksville, Louisiana, while transporting 250 men of the 56th Ohio Infantry Regiment (![]() |
USS Signal | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Badly damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry on the Red River of the South, the gunboat was burned by her crew off Alexandria, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. The Confederates captured her crew. |
6 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Commodore Jones | ![]() |
American Civil War: The gunboat was blown to pieces by a 2,000-pound (907-kg) electrically detonated Confederate mine on the James River in Virginia, killing 40 of her crew and wounding 29.[2][94] |
7 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Raleigh | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The casemate ironclad suffered severe damage when she ran aground on the bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina and was destroyed by her crew to prevent her capture by Union forces.[2][10] |
USS Shawsheen | ![]() |
American Civil War: The gunboat was disabled and captured by Confederate States Army troops on the James River in Virginia. The Confederate troops set her on fire when two United States Navy ironclads approached, and she exploded when the flames reached her ammunition magazine.[2][27] |
8 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sophia | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: While under the control of a United States Navy prize crew, the schooner foundered in a heavy gale off the coast of the United States. She had been captured by the schooner USS Dan Smith (![]() |
9 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Silver Cloud No. 2 | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of government supplies, the 287-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a rock and sank in shallow water in the Cumberland River in Tennessee. She was refloated the next day.[95] |
10 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Carondelet | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The ironclad gunboat ran aground on the Red River of the South above Alexandria, Louisiana. She soon was refloated.[2] |
Harriet A. Weed | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying 13 officers and 20 enlisted men of the 3rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment (![]() |
USS Mound City | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The ironclad gunboat ran aground on the Red River of the South above Alexandria, Louisiana. She soon was refloated.[2] |
11 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Invercauld | ![]() |
The sailing ship was wrecked on the Auckland Islands. Some members of the crew survived. |
14 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Anna Eliza | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was on a blockade-running voyage from the Santee River in South Carolina to Nassau in the Bahamas with a cargo of turpentine spirits when she was discovered dismasted and waterlogged in the North Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina at 34°35′N 74°55′W / 34.583°N 74.917°W by the mortar gunboat USS Sea Foam (![]() |
Jenny Jones | ![]() |
The schooner was stranded on Peacock Spit while sailing up the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington Territory.[98] |
16 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
John Williams | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked on a reef off Danger Island in the Cook Islands and sank without loss of life. |
18 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
George Latimer | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 198-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of flour, lard, bread, and kerosene, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Recife, Brazil, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 34°55′N 55°13′W / 34.917°N 55.217°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
21 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Nile | ![]() |
The 650-ton screw steamer exploded at Detroit, Michigan, with the loss of 13 lives.[100] |
22 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Columbine | ![]() |
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Sting Ray | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was grounded by her crew on the coast of Texas after they overpowered a prize crew placed aboard her by the gunboat USS Kineo (![]() |
24 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lebanon | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned by Confederate States Army troops at Ford's Landing, Arkansas.[2] |
Three unidentified transports | ![]() |
American Civil War: The transports came under fire by Confederate States Army artillery on the Mississippi River at Daniel Session's Plantation. One careened over and was hauled to the river's bank, while the othr two were disabled and set afire.[101] |
25 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Visalia | ![]() |
The 76-ton screw steamer struck a snag and sank at Hayes Bend on the Sacramento River, three miles (4.8 km) above Nicholas, California.[102] |
26 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Boston | ![]() |
American Civil War: Aground on the Ashepoo River in South Carolina since around midnight on 25 May with the loss of seven or eight lives while transporting 300 personnel of the 34th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, 90 cavalrymen, and 60 horses (all ![]() |
27 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lebanon | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 225-ton sidewheel transport was burned by Confederate forces on the Mississippi River at Greenville, Mississippi. She had been captured on the Mississippi about 10 miles (16 km) below Greenville near Ford's Landing on 25 May by a yawl manned by men of the 4th Missouri Regiment (![]() |
28 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Belle Creole | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[85][105] |
Black Hawk | ![]() |
The 57- or 211-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[85][105] |
Empire Parish | ![]() |
The 279-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[105][82] |
Fawn | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[105][106] |
General Finegan | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, the sloop was captured and destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida just north of the Chassahowitzka River near Homosassa Bay by two boats from the schooner USS Ariel (![]() |
Meteor | ![]() |
The 417-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[107][105] |
New Orleans | ![]() |
The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[75][105] |
Louisiana Bell | ![]() |
The 89-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[79][105] |
Time and Tide | ![]() |
The 130-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[108][105] |
30 May
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Clara Ames (or Clara Eames) | ![]() |
American Civil War: Ambushed by Confederate States Army troops on the Mississippi River about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) below Columbia, Arkansas, the 105-ton sternwheel transport ran aground about 4 miles (6.4 km) above Sunnyside Plantation, Arknasa, and was captured by the Confederates, who burned her to the waterline.[2][52] |
Fortunate | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: After the sloop, carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, was captured and taken in tow by the screw steamer USS Bermuda (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Doubloon | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 293-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was refloated and repaired.[109] |
Drover | ![]() |
American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 26-ton sidewheel ferry probably was scuttled as a blockship in the Red River of the South at Shreveport, Louisiana. She probably was refloated.[109] |
Pontiac | ![]() |
The 68-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded at Grand Have, Michigan, killing three people.[100] |
June
1 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Unidentified wharf boat | ![]() |
The wharf boat, loaded with reserve supplies and ammunition for the fleet of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter (![]() |
2 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Frank Steel (or Frank Steele) | ![]() |
The 136-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded on the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wisconsin, killing two people.[18] |
Georgiana C. McCaw | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Victoria (![]() |
Isabel | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Having suffered severe damage from gunfire while being captured in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas, by the screw steamer USS Admiral (![]() |
Rose | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 67-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner en route from Nassau in the Bahamas carrying a small cargo of liquor and other goods, was chased ashore on the coast of South Carolina on the south end of Pawleys Island near Georgetown by the gunboat USS Wamsutta (![]() |
7 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Etiwan | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 132-ton sidewheel transport ran aground in Charleston Harbor off Fort Johnson in South Carolina. One source claims she was destroyed by Union artillery emplaced on Morris Island;[2] another claims she was raised and repaired and placed in service by Union forces.[112] |
8 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Berkshire | ![]() |
The 649-ton steamer burned at Poughkeepsie, New York, with the loss of 35 lives.[55] |
9 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Pevensey | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS New Berne (![]() |
12 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
I Go | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 104-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas.[67] |
USS Lavender | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage from the Delaware Capes to Charleston, South Carolina, the armed tug was wrecked on the Cape Lookout Shoals in the North Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina during a severe squall. Between nine members and 14 members of her crew died before the steamer John Farrow (![]() |
14 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Courier | ![]() |
The storeship was wrecked without loss of life on the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas about 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) south of the Elbow Cay Lighthouse.[115] |
15 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
J. R. Williams | ![]() |
American Civil War: Disabled by Confederate artillery on the Arkansas River at Pheasant Bluff in the Indian Territory near what is now Tamaha, Oklahoma, the sternwheel paddle steamer ran aground and was captured. Confederate forces then burned her.[24] |
16 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Landis | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 377-ton sidewheel transport was damaged in combat with the 1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiment (![]() |
Two unidentified schooners | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooners were burned near the mouth of the Pamlico River in North Carolina by a joint Union Army-United States Navy expedition embarked on the transport Ella May (![]() ![]() |
17 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
William C. Clarke | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 338-ton brig, carrying a cargo of lumber from Machias, Maine, to Matanzas, Cuba, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 30°00′N 62°40′W / 30.000°N 62.667°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
19 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Alabama | ![]() |
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Alvin Clark | ![]() |
The schooner capsized and sank in a storm in Green Bay just off Chambers Island, Wisconsin, with the loss of two of her four crew members. |
24 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Queen City | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel paddle steamer was captured by Confederate States Army cavalry and artillery while anchored on the White River off Clarendon, Arkansas. The Confederates blew her up shortly after capturing her.[2] |
27 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Colonel Satterly | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with gravel, sand, and stone, the schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union Army forces in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia.[46] |
E. W. Benton | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with gravel, sand, and stone, the schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union Army forces in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia.[72] |
Franklin | ![]() |
American Civil War: The bark was scuttled as a blockship in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia.[117] |
Haxall | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with gravel, sand, and stone, the schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union Army forces in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia.[118] |
Julie A. Whitford (or Julia A. Whitfield) | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with gravel, sand, and stone, the schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union Army forces in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia.[1] |
Mary Robinson | ![]() |
The clipper was driven onto a reef at Howland Island (01°N 176°W / 1°N 176°W) in the Pacific Ocean and wrecked during a strong squall. Her wreck slid off the reef and sank the next day. |
Mist | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with gravel, sand, and stone, the schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union Army forces in Trent's Reach on the James River in Virginia on or about 27 June.[119] |
Modern Greece | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: After suffering nine shell hits while under fire by United States Navy ships, the 753- to 1,000-ton screw steamer was driven ashore by the armed screw steamer USS Cambridge and the gunboat USS Stars and Stripes (both ![]() |
28 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sarah Mary | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Captured by the gunboat USS Norfolk Packet) (![]() |
29 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Alvin Clark | ![]() |
The two-masted schooner sank in Green Bay off the coast of Wisconsin.[122] |
Pike | Unknown | The wooden barge struck a snag and sank in the Sacramento River below the I Street Bridge in Sacramento. California.[123] |
30 June
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Ivanhoe | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: While trying to enter Mobile Bay, the steamer, a blockade runner, was forced aground about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Fort Morgan, Alabama, by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Glasgow (![]() ![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Olive | ![]() |
After coal oil she was carrying caught fire, the 220-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Ohio River at Buffington Island to extinguish the flames. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[45] |
Tiger | ![]() |
During a voyage from North Bend, Ohio, to Cincinnati, Ohio, towing a barge of hay, the 97.6-ton screw towboat struck Kirby Rock in the Ohio River and sank.[24] |
Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, the schooner sank in Indian River Inlet on the coast of Florida.[14] |
July
1 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Harriet Stevens | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 463-ton bark, carrying a cargo of lumber, cement, and gum opium from Machias, Maine, to Matanzas, Cuba, was captured, used for target practice, and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of Bermuda at 31°33′N 64°08′W / 31.550°N 64.133°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
3 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Locust Point | ![]() |
The 462-ton screw steamer sank with the loss of 17 lives in 84 feet (25.6 meters) of water in the North Atlantic Ocean off Absecon, New Jersey, between Absecon Light and Barnegat Light after colliding with Matanzas (flag unknown).[55][126] |
4 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mariner | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 193-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate States Army forces on the Mississippi River above Helena, Arkansas, near the mouth of the St. Francis River, where she had been aground on a sandbar since June.[19] |
7 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Carolina | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade, the 52-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked while leaving Galveston, Texas.[36] |
Matagorda | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 1,250-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was forced aground off Galveston Island on the coast of Texas, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of San Luis Pass, by the gunboat USS Kanawha (![]() ![]() |
8 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Galconda | ![]() |
American Civil War: The whaler, a 330-ton bark returning from a two-year whaling expedition with a cargo of 1,800 barrels of whale oil, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Florida southwest of Bermuda at 37°28′N 72°00′W / 37.467°N 72.000°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
Planet No. 2 | ![]() |
The 58-ton sidewheel paddle steamer crashed into a dock at New Orleans, Louisiana.[26] |
9 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Greenland | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 549-ton bark, bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Pensacola, Florida, with a cargo of coal, was under tow by the tug America (![]() ![]() |
Margaret Y. Davis | ![]() |
American Civil War: The schooner, in ballast, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Henry, Virginia, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
10 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Electric Spark | ![]() |
American Civil War: During a voyage from New York City to Havana, Cuba, carrying 43 passengers and a cargo of assorted merchandise, dry goods, shoes, boots, fine provisions, wines, liquors, postage stamps, mail, gold specie, cash, and bank notes, the 810-ton screw steamer was captured in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maryland by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
Elizabeth Buckley | Unknown | Carrying a cargo of lumber, the schooner was stranded at Point Arena, California, with the loss of one life.[128] |
General Berry | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 469- or 1,197-ton bark, carrying a cargo of hay and straw from Maine to Fortress Monroe in Virginia, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean 35 nautical miles (65 km) off the coast of Maryland at 37°33′N 74°20′W / 37.550°N 74.333°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
Governor Milton | ![]() |
American Civil War: The armed tug became disabled while transporting Union Army troops on the South Fork of the Edisto River in South Carolina and was burned at the mouth of the river to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[129] |
Virgin | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a large blockade runner, was discovered aground on the coast of Alabama at Mobile Bay near Fort Morgan by the broadside ironclad USS Galena, sidewheel gunboat USS Sebago, and screw sloops-of-war USS Lackawanna and USS Monongahela (all ![]() |
Zelinda | ![]() |
American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Matanzas, Cuba. to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 559-ton bark was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (65 km) off the coast of Maryland by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
15 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Cherokee | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 261-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[131] |
Edward F. Dix | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 296-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. She was repaired and returned to service.[82][52] |
Glasgow | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 340-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[132] |
Nare | ![]() |
Bound from New York City to Santa Marta, Venezuela, the steamer sank an hour after springing a leak. The crew abandoned ship in two boats. One boat disappeared; the survivors aboard the other boat were rescued by the bark Sicilian (flag unknown).[133] |
Northerner | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 332-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[43] |
Sunshine | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 354-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[17] |
Welcome | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 499-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[134] |
18 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Saint Louis | ![]() |
The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate guerrillas at Sailor's Rest on the Cumberland River in Tennessee above Fort Donelson.[95] |
21 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
B. M. Runyon | ![]() |
The 443-ton sidewheel transport struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at the foot of Island No 84 near Skipwith's Landing, Mississippi, and Gaines Landing, Arkansas, with the loss of about 70 to 150 men.[131] |
23 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
B. M. Runyan | ![]() |
American Civil War: The transport, carrying about 500 Union Army and civilian personnel, sank after striking a snag in the Mississippi River near Skipwith's Landing, Mississippi. The sternwheel paddle steamer USS Prairie Bird (![]() |
Gazelle | ![]() |
Bound for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with a cargo of coal, the schooner struck a rock and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Thacher Island on the coast of Massachusetts.[130] |
Kingston | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer ran aground on the Virginia shore of the Chesapeake Bay between Smith's Point and Windmill Point. She was captured and burned on 24 July by Confederate guerrillas.[125] |
24 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
B. T. Martin | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: After her capture by the Confederate privateer York in the North Atlantic Ocean 110 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Havana, Cuba, with a cargo of potatoes, a complete sugar mill, and three large iron tanks, the brig was beached by her Confederate prize crew on the coast of North Carolina near Chicamacomico. The Confederates were still stripping B. T. Martin and removing her cargo when the armed screw steamer USS Union (![]() |
Clara Bell (or Clarabell) | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 200-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was damaged by Confederate States Army artillery fire on the White River, then was run onto the riverbank at Caroline Landing, Mississippi, and finally burned after being set afire by more artillery fire when Confederate forces pursued her to Louisiana Bend on the Mississippi River.[131] |
Gazelle | ![]() |
Bound for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with a cargo of coal, the schooner struck a rock and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Thacher Island on the coast of Massachusetts.[130] |
Kingston | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 200-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the Virginia shore of the Chesapeake Bay in the Diamond Marshes between Smith Point and Windmill Point and was captured and burned by Confederate guerrillas.[125][1] |
25 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Island City | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of corn for the Northwestern Indian Expedition, the 139-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River across from Fort Buford in Dakota Territory.[135] |
Monitor | ![]() |
Under tow by the steamer Christina and carrying a cargo of hay and a wagon, the barge burned and sank in the Sacramento River two miles (3.2 km) downstream from Rio Vista, California.[23] |
USS Undine | ![]() |
American Civil War: The tinclad sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Tennessee River near Clifton, Tennessee. She was refloated on 31 July and was repaired and returned to service.[125] |
29 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mosquito | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of wood, the barge struck a snag and sank in the Sacramento River at the foot of I Street in Sacramento, California.[23] |
30 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Henry Ames | ![]() |
The 777-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River about 7 miles (11 km) above Cairo, Illinois. She later was refloated.[136] |
31 July
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Thistle | ![]() |
The 210-ton sternwheel towboat struck a snag and sank in the Ohio River near Big Hurricane Island.[24] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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John T. Wright | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked at Lanshan Crossing on the Yangtze River in China.[137] |
Kate | ![]() |
During a river voyage in Louisiana from New Orleans to Brashear City with a cargo of 130 tons of coal, the schooner was seized and burned by Confederate forces and sank across from Lost Island.[76] |
August
2 August
Ship | State | Description |
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Lady Walton | ![]() |
The 150-ton sternwheel paddle steamer collided with Norman (flag unknown) and sank in the Tippecanoe River at Warsaw, Indiana.[13] |
3 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Dan Pollard | ![]() |
The 77-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Cairo, Illinois.[138] |
5 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Gaines | ![]() |
American Civil War, Battle of Mobile Bay: The sidewheel gunboat grounded in a sinking condition in Mobile Bay, Alabama, near Fort Morgan after suffering heavy damage, with two crew members killed. |
USS Philippi | ![]() |
American Civil War, Battle of Mobile Bay: The sidewheel gunboat was set afire by Confederate artillery and sank in Mobile Bay, Alabama, at 30°23′01″N 88°02′00″W / 30.3835°N 88.0334°W after suffering heavy damage. |
USS Tecumseh | ![]() |
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7 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Charles Mears | ![]() |
The 272-ton screw steamer burned at Muskegon, Michigan.[100] |
Chekiang | ![]() |
The 1,264-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Hankow, China.[30] |
CSS Phoenix | ![]() |
American Civil War: The ironclad warship was scuttled at the Dog River Bar in Mobile Bay, Alabama, at 30°36′08″N 88°02′19″W / 30.60231°N 88.03860°W to prevent her capture by Union forces. A few nights later, men from the sidewheel gunboat USS Metacomet (![]() |
USS Violet | ![]() |
American Civil War: The armed tug ran aground on the Western Bar of North Carolina′s Cape Fear River. Her own crew and that of the gunboat USS Vicksburg (![]() |
8-9 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Prince Albert | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 132-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of lead ingots and medicine, struck the wreck of the screw steamer Minho (![]() ![]() |
9 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
J. C. Campbell | ![]() |
American Civil War: The supply barge, carrying a cargo of commissary stores, was obliterated at her moorings at a wharf at City Point on the James River in Virginia by the explosion of the barge J. E. Kendrick (![]() |
J. E. Kendrick | ![]() |
|
Lewis | ![]() |
American Civil War: The barge was blown up at City Point on the James River in Virginia by the explosion of the barge J. E. Kendrick (![]() |
Major General Meade | ![]() |
American Civil War: The supply barge, carrying a cargo of condemned stores and condemned ammunition, was obliterated at her moorings at a wharf at City Point on the James River in Virginia by the explosion of the barge J. E. Kendrick (![]() |
10 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Racine | ![]() |
The 157-ton screw steamer burned at Rondeau, Ontario, killing 13 people.[143] |
11 August
12 August
13 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Glenarvon (or Glenavon) | ![]() |
American Civil War: During a voyage from New York City to Greenock, Scotland, with a cargo of iron, the 789-ton barque was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Massachusetts by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
Lamont Du Pont (or Lammont Du Pont) | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of coal from Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, to New York City, the 194-ton schooner was captured and either scutlled or burned (sources disagree) in the North Atlantic Ocean within 60 nautical miles (97 km) of New York City by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
14 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Gladiator | ![]() |
The 425-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at Willard, Illinois.[132] |
James Littlefield | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 547- or 593-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of anthracite from Cardiff, Wales, to New York City, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
15 August
16 August
17 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Josiah Achom | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 123-ton schooner, on a voyage in ballast from Portland, Maine, to Lingan, Nova Scotia, was captured and destroyed in the North Atlantic Ocean off Maine by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
Miller (or J. H. Miller) | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 68-ton sternwheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of commissary supplies and mail, was captured and burned by Confederate forces on the Arkansas River in Arkansas 20 miles (32 km) from Pine Bluff.[150] |
North America | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 87-ton fishing schooner was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Maine by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
18 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Highland Chief | ![]() |
The 342-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River 2 miles (3.2 km) above Vevay, Indiana, with the loss of five lives after colliding with Major Anderson (flag unknown).[15] |
20 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Roan | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 127-ton brig was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the merchant raider CSS Tallahassee (![]() |
22 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Courier | ![]() |
The 258-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Cache River between Cairo and Mound City, Illinois, by a fire that began while she was transferring stores to the steamer Volunteer (flag unknown).[15] |
26 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Emma Boyd | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 172-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag in the Alabama River at Selma, Alabama. [152] |
31 August
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
John Swasy | ![]() |
The 236-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Devil's Island above Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[153] |
Mary Bowers | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade into Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of coal and general merchandise, the 550- or 680-ton iron-hulled sidewheel paddle steamer struck the wreck of the screw steamer SS Georgiana (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Houqua | ![]() |
The clipper disappeared without trace after departing Yokohama, Japan, on 15 August bound for New York City. She may have foundered in a typhoon. |
Martha | ![]() |
The lighthouse tender was captured and burned by Confederate forces in Chandeleur Sound near Mason's Keep on the coast of Louisiana.[107] |
Unidentified wharf boat | ![]() |
American Civil War: Loaded with government stores, the wharf boat was burned by Confederate forces at Owensboro, Kentucky.[155] |
September
1 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
William V. Gillum | ![]() |
The 70-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico during a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Matamoros, Mexico. Her crew was rescued a few days later by the schooner Cory (![]() |
2 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Scioto | ![]() |
The 389-ton screw steamer collided with Arctic (flag unknown) and sank in Lake Erie at Dunkirk, New York.[147] |
3 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Brandywine | ![]() |
American Civil War: The receiving ship was destroyed by an accidental fire at the Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.[46] |
4 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Agnes Louisa | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 578-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on Hog Island in the Bahamas while outbound for a blockade-running voyage to Charleston, South Carolina. She apparently became a total loss[156] |
5 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Henry Fitzhugh | ![]() |
Laid up at the mouth of the Licking River in Kentucky, the 217-ton sternwheel paddle steamer capsized when the river flooded. Her cabin broke free after she capsized.[13] |
9 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Fawn | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned by sailors from the ironclad ram CSS Albemarle (![]() |
10 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Florie | ![]() |
The 349-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a wreck on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.[38] |
12 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
John J. Roe | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (![]() |
13 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Alice Price (or Alice C. Price) | ![]() |
American Civil War: A Confederate mine sank the sidewheel transport in the St. Johns River in Florida near Mandarin Point.[29] |
18 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Mary | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked in Uda Gulf in the western Sea of Okhotsk during a gale. She was sold to Otto Wilhelm Lindholm, who salvaged some of the wreck the following year.[158][159] |
19 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Industrious | ![]() |
The brig was wrecked off Port Eynon, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Llanelli, Glamorgan to Malta.[39] |
Island Queen | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned in Lake Erie off Middle Bass Island, Ohio, by Confederate agents aboard the captured steamer Philo Parsons (![]() |
Philo Parsons | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer was captured by Confederate agents in Lake Erie. Later in the day, they burned her off Sandusky, Ohio. |
21 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Gertrude | ![]() |
The 70-ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered at College Point in Louisiana with the loss of six lives.[160] |
23 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Antelope | ![]() |
American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was beached in a sinking condition after striking a snag in the Mississippi River above New Orleans, Louisiana, and subsequently was stripped and abandoned.[125][161] |
Lavina Logan | ![]() |
The 145-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Mississippi River.[19] |
25 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lynx | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton, was set ablaze off Wilmington, North Carolina, by gunfire from the screw steamers USS Howquah and USS Niphon and the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham (all ![]() |
26 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lynx | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Chased by the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham and the armed screw steamers USS Howquah and USS Niphon (all ![]() |
Mandamis (or Mondamin) |
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American Civil War: The bark, in ballast, was captured and destroyed in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of South America by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida (![]() |
Mary Celestia | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage with a cargo of bacon, rifle-muskets, and ammunition, the 314-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a rock off Bermuda just south of Gibbs Lighthouse and sank in less than eight minutes in 60 feet (18 meters) of water at 32°12′10″N 64°42′15″W / 32.20278°N 64.70417°W.[164] |
27 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS North Carolina | ![]() |
American Civil War: Suffering from a number of bad leaks due to poor hull construction, the casemate ironclad foundered near the mouth of the Cape Fear River off Smithville, North Carolina at 33°54′49″N 78°1′8″W / 33.91361°N 78.01889°W. |
29 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Night Hawk | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, was forced aground and burned on the coast of North Carolina off Fort Fisher by the screw steamer USS Niphon (![]() |
30 September
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Ogdensburg | ![]() |
The 352-ton screw steamer sank after colliding with the schooner Snow Bird (flag unknown) at Fairport, Ohio.[155] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Picket Boat No. 2 | ![]() |
During a voyage from New York City to Hampton Roads, Virginia, the screw torpedo boat sank on rocks on the coast of New Jersey near Bergen Point. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[165] |
Platte Valley | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Devil's Island. She later was refloated.[43] |
Washoe | ![]() |
The 385- or 500-ton steamer was sunk by a boiler explosion above the Hog's Back in Steamboat Slough in California on 4 or 5 September, killing 36 people and seriously injuring another 36, several of whom later died. She later was refloated and repaired.[102] |
October
1 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Condor | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer USS Niphon (![]() |
6 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Constance (or Constance Decima) | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 140-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner en route from Nova Scotia to Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of weapons and possibly gold, was sunk off the coast of South Carolina.[125][167] One account reports her to have been forced aground and sunk off the Isle of Palms by the gunboat USS Wamsutta (![]() ![]() ![]() |
Henry S. Dickerson | ![]() |
The 57-ton screw steamer exploded on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, killing five people.[136] |
7 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Annie | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, was run aground at New Inlet, North Carolina, by the armed tug USS Aster (![]() |
USS Aster | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed tug ran hard aground on the Carolina Shoals near New Inlet off North Carolina. She was set on fire the next day to prevent her capture by Confederate forces, and eventually exploded.[168] |
8 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
USS Picket Boat No. 2 | ![]() |
American Civil War: The torpedo boat ran aground on a sandbar in Great Wicomico Bay, Virginia, while under attack by Confederate guerrillas and was was forced to surrender. When the armed steamer USS Commodore Read and the USS Mercury[disambiguation needed] (both ![]() |
9 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Roanoke | ![]() |
American Civil War: The mail steamer was burned in the Atlantic Ocean off St. George's, Bermuda, by Confederate agents. The Confederates had seized control of her on 29 September, soon after she departed Havana, Cuba, for a voyage to New York City, and had shot and thrown overboard one member of her crew during the incident.[125][170][171][116] |
10 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Henry | ![]() |
Carrying assorted cargo, the brig was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[71] |
Leighton | ![]() |
The bark was capsized by a tornado in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the loss of one life.[172] |
16 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
J. C. Irwin | ![]() |
The 145-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked by a boiler explosion with the loss of between eight and 11 lives on the Cumberland River at Big Eddy Towhead in Kentucky, 10 miles (16 km) above Eddyville, Kentucky.[173][174] |
19 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Cornelia Terry | Unknown | The vessel was lost off the coast of Oregon in Yaquina Bay.[175] |
W. I. Maclay | ![]() |
The 245-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River below St. Louis, Missouri.[134] |
21 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
General Ward | ![]() |
The 70-ton screw steamer exploded at Shanghai, China, leaving only one survivor.[137] |
22 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Flora | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 437-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner carrying assorted cargo, was run ashore off Charleston, South Carolina, by the gunboats USS Mingoe and USS Wamsutta, the armed tug USS Geranium, and picket launches (all ![]() |
23 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Flamingo | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 283-, 284-, or 446-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina.[125][112] One source claims she was destroyed there by gunfire from Union artillery at Fort Putnam, Fort Strong, and Battery Chatfield and ships of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron (![]() |
26 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Kenosha | ![]() |
The 645-ton screw steamer burned at Sarnia, Ontario.[143] |
Sophie McLane (or Sophie McLean) | ![]() |
The paddle steamer was sunk by a boiler explosion at Suisun Bay Wharf in California, with 13 people killed or missing. She later was salvaged.[177] |
27 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
CSS Albemarle | ![]() |
American Civil War: While at anchor in the Roanoke River at Plymouth, North Carolina, the ironclad ram was sunk by a United States Navy launch crew using a spar torpedo. The U.S. Navy later raised her and repaired her hull, but sold her for scrap without placing her in service.[178] |
John A. Fisher | ![]() |
The 122-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Carroll Island below St. Louis, Missouri.[153] |
28 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Empress | ![]() |
The 854-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at Island No. 34 by cavalry under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest (![]() |
29 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Alina | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 574-ton bark, carrying a cargo of railway iron to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on her maiden voyage, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
Mazeppa | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 184-ton sternwheel paddle steamer, en route from Cincinnati, Ohio, towing two barges carrying flour, shoes, blankets, arms, hardtack, clothing, and other goods, was abandoned on the west bank of the Tennessee River in Tennessee after she suffered damage from Confederate States Army artillery fire while passing Paris Landing. When United States Navy gunboats approached that night, Confederate forces burned her and the two barges 2 miles (3.2 km) above and across from Fort Henry.[182] |
30 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Anna | ![]() |
American Civil War: Damaged earlier by artillery batteries under the command of Leiutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest (![]() |
Universe | ![]() |
The 399-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee, with the loss of 17 lives.[181] |
Two unidentified barges | ![]() |
The empty barges were captured with the sidewheel paddle steamer Venus (![]() |
31 October
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Aphrodite | ![]() |
Transporting 510 U.S. Navy recruits from New York City to the blockading squadrons off the coast of the Confederate States of America in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, the chartered 1,098-ton screw steamer ran aground on a shoal in Core Sound on the coast of North Carolina 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Cape Lookout. The armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Keystone State and USS Shokokon (both ![]() |
David Hughes | ![]() |
Carrying government supplies and towing a barge loaded with stores, the steamer was captured and burned by Confederate guerrillas on the Cumberland River 15 miles (24 km) above Clarksville, Tennessee.[89] |
Dunleith | ![]() |
The 155-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Island No. 67.[52] |
Emma L. Hall | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 492-ton bark, carrying a cargo of sugar and molasses from Cárdenas, Cuba, to New York City, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New York within 50 nautical miles (93 km) of her destination by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga (![]() |
Shooting Star | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 947-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New York at 39°20′N 70°00′W / 39.333°N 70.000°W by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga (![]() |
Unidentified barge | ![]() |
Loaded with stores and under tow by the steamer David Hughes (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Amily | ![]() |
The screw steamer sank in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[155] |
Belle Peoria | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer ran onto a bar in the Missouri River in the Dakota Territory 5 miles (8 km) above the mouth of the Cheyenne River.[101] |
C.S.M. | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer sank at a wharf in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in mid-October after a collision with the steamer Mary (![]() |
West Wind | ![]() |
American Civil War: Disabled by Confederate States Army artillery fire and captured by Confederate forces, the 350-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, on either 16 or 17 October.[145] |
Three unidentified schooners | ![]() |
American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooners as blockships in the Roanoke River in North Carolina.[91] |
November
1 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Goodspeed | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 283-ton schooner, in ballast, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga (![]() |
Empress Theresa | ![]() |
American Civil War: The bark, of either 312 or 663 tons (sources disagree) was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Delaware Capes by the merchant raider CSS Olustee (![]() |
Otter Rock | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 91-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of potatoes, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga (![]() |
Winslow | ![]() |
The 265-ton screw steamer sank after colliding with another vessel at Cleveland, Ohio.[143] |
3 November
4 November
5 November
7 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Buckskin | ![]() |
American Civil War: After being captured by Confderate guerrillas, the sloop was recaptured and burned on Chopawamsic Creek by the armed screw steamer USS Anacostia (![]() |
7-8 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
D. Godfrey | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of mess beef and pork from Boston, Massachusetts, the 299-ton bark was captured, burned, and sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Cape Verde Islands at 04°42′N 28°24′W / 4.700°N 28.400°W by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
10 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Susan | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 134-ton brigantine was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Cape Verde Islands by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
11 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Fawn | ![]() |
The 36-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Big Sandy River between Kentucky and West Virginia. (This may be the same shipwreck as the 5 November shipwreck of a steamer named Fawn).[116] |
USS Tulip | ![]() |
The gunboat suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Potomac River off Piney Point, Maryland. The explosion killed 49 men. The tug Hudson (![]() |
12 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Kate Prince | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 1,100-ton clipper, carrying a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
13 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Lizzie M. Stacey | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 140-ton schooner was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
18 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Desirée | ![]() |
The smack was driven ashore in Oxwich Bay, Wales. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France, to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.[39] |
Hectorine | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[39] |
The Lady of the Lake | ![]() |
The vessel foundered in Oxwich Bay, Wales.[39] |
Lancaster No. 4 | ![]() |
The 218-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River below Portland, Missouri.[19] |
22 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Katie | ![]() |
The 180-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Diamond Island with the loss of one life nine minutes after colliding with Des Moines (flag unknown).[45] |
24 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Iwanowa | Unknown | The full-rigged ship was lost off Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington Territory.[98] |
Louisa | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore by the gunboat USS Chocura (![]() |
Ork | Unknown | The vessel was wrecked on the Umpqua River Bar at the mouth of the Umpqua River off the coast of Oregon.[175] |
Shrapnel | ![]() |
The steamer sank in a canal in Virginia while on her way to Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs.[27] |
25 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Francis Skiddy | ![]() |
The 1,183- or 1,235-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on a reef in the Hudson River 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Albany, New York.[147] |
L and R Smith | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of Cape Henry, Virginia.[1] |
William L. Ewing | ![]() |
The 335-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[134] |
26 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Sagamore | Unknown | Carrying a cargo of granite and cobbles, the schooner foundered in a storm in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California four miles (6.4 km) above Point Pinole.[123] |
27 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Greyhound | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 380-, 400-, or 900-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, serving as headquarters ship for Major General Benjamin Butler (![]() ![]() ![]() |
28 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Charlie Potwan | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of slack coal, the 52-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was swamped by the wakes of the passing Diamond and Coal Hill (nationalities unknown), filled with water, capsized, and sank without loss of life at Eightmile Island on the Ohio River above Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Her cabin separated from her hull and floated downstream.[59] |
Doane | ![]() |
Carrying forage and freight, the 250-ton sternwheel paddle steamer ran aground, broke in two, and sank in 6 feet (1.8 meters) of water in the Arkansas River in Arkansas about 20 miles (32 km) above Dardanelle and 18 miles (29 km) east of Clarksville.[204] |
CSS Florida | ![]() |
American Civil War: While in United States Navy custody, the captured sloop-of-war, leaking after a collision on 19 November with the United States Army Transport USAT Alliance (![]() |
29 November
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Unidentified schooner | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage to Matagorda, Texas, the 100-ton schooner, possibly named Carrie Mair, was forced aground and destroyed by the gunboat USS Itasca (![]() |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Beatrice | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 342-gross ton screw steamer, a blockade runner bound from Nassau in the Bahamas, to Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo that included artillery shells, was destroyed on the coast of South Carolina off Charleston, but sources differ on the date and circustances of her destruction. According to one account, she was captured by picket boats of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron (![]() |
Belle | ![]() |
The schooner foundered in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[155] |
City of Buffalo | ![]() |
The 2,026-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[155] |
CSS Danube | ![]() |
American Civil War: The floating battery was sunk as a blockship in the Spanish River gap in Mobile Bay on the coast of Alabama.[206] |
Jennie Hubbs | ![]() |
The 220-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near New Albany, Indiana. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[45] |
Torch Lake | ![]() |
The 20-ton screw steamer foundered at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.[122] |
December
1 December
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Nymph | ![]() |
The 35-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky. [45] |
3 December
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Eliza | Unknown | The wooden barge sank in the Sacramento River off Washington, California, after colliding with Governor Dana (flag unknown).[128] |
Ella | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 634-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner with a cargo of Holland gin, munitions, and rifle muskets, was forced aground near the lighthouse at Bald Head Point off Fort Holmes on the coast of North Carolina near the mouth of the Cape Fear River southeast of Cape Fear by the armed screw steamer USS Emma and gunboat USS Pequot (both ![]() ![]() |
4 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Edward | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 274-ton whaler, a bark, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off Tristan da Cunha by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
5 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Lizzie Freeman | ![]() |
American Civil War: While at anchor, the tug was captured and destroyed on the James River off Pagan Creek near Smithfield, Virginia, by a Confederate States Navy boarding party.[125][208] |
6 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Alabama | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was forced aground on the coast of Texas near San Luis Pass by the cruiser USS Princess Royal (![]() |
7 December
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Narcissus | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The screw steamer struck a Confederate mine in Mobile Bay off Mobile, Alabama, during a heavy storm and sank without loss of life. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service. |
Stormy Petrel | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Trying to a run the Union blockade and reach Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo that included arms and ammunition, the 220-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina off New Inlet and Smith Island a mile (1.6 km) below Fort Fisher by the gunboat USS Kansas (![]() ![]() |
8 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Mary Ann | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, a blockade runner with a cargo of cotton, was forced aground and destroyed by the gunboat USS Itasca (![]() |
9 December
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Bazely | ![]() |
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Ben South | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 176-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade (![]() |
Echo | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 100-ton steam towboat was burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade (![]() |
USS Otsego | ![]() |
American Civil War: The gunboat sank after striking two Confederate mines in the Roanoke River near Jamesville, North Carolina. Her wreck was blown up on 9 or 25 December (sources disagree) to prevent its capture by Confederate forces.[125][34] |
Robert B. Howlett | ![]() |
The 120- or 246-ton schooner was wrecked on Charleston Bar or North Bar off the coast of South Carolina during a hurricane.[31] |
Thomas E. Tutt | ![]() |
American Civil War: Carrying Union Army troops and a cargo of oats, the 351-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade (![]() |
Two unidentified barges | ![]() |
American Civil War: The barges were captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade (![]() |
Unidentified steamer | ![]() |
American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade (![]() |
10 December
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS Ida | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 77-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned by a detachment of the 150th New York Infantry Regiment (![]() |
USS Picket Boat No. 5 | ![]() |
The torpedo boat sank in the James River opposite Jamestown, Virginia. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[169] |
12 December
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS Resolute | ![]() |
American Civil War: Under heavy fire by the 1st New York Artillery Regiment (![]() ![]() ![]() |
16 December
Ship | State | Description |
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G. O. Bigelow | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, in ballast, was captured and burned by the screw steamer USS Mount Vernon (![]() |
19 December
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS Water Witch | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel gunboat was burned at White Bluff, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
21 December
24 December
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS Arctic | ![]() |
American Civil War: The floating battery was scuttled as a blockship in the Cape Fear River off Fort Fisher, North Carolina.[215] |
USS Louisiana | ![]() |
American Civil War: The screw steamer, packed with gunpowder, was deliberately blown up near Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in an attempt to reduce the fort. The clock mechanism intended to detonate the gunpowder failed, but a fire deliberately started aboard the ship detonated it instead. The explosion had no appreciable effect on the fort. |
27 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Agnes E. Fry | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 350-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was forced ashore on the coast of North Carolina about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Fort Campbell and about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Fort Caswell by the armed screw steamer USS Monticello (![]() |
Unidentified schooner | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned after she was forced aground at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, by the armed screw steamer USS Monticello (![]() |
28 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Unidentified sloop | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was forced ashore and destroyed by the gunboat USS Kanawha (![]() |
29 December
Ship | State | Description |
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Delphine | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 750-ton bark, proceeding in ballast from London, England, to Akyab in British Burma, was captured and burned in the South Pacific Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
Talisman | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 266-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, sank in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean.[133] |
30 December
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Annie | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner departed Key West, Florida, to resume blockade duties in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida's west coast off Charlotte Harbor, but was not heard from again. On 5 February 1865, the screw steamer USS Hendrick Hudson (![]() |
USS Rattler | ![]() |
American Civil War: During a heavy gale, the paddle steamer parted her mooring cables on the Mississippi River near Grand Gulf, Mississippi, ran ashore, struck a snag and sank. She was stripped and abandoned, and Confederate forces later burned her wreck.[125] |
31 December
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Venango | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 120-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned at Pilcher's Point in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana.[218] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Caroline Reed | Unknown | The vessel was lost in the Pacific Ocean off the United States West Coast somewhere between Bellingham, Washington Territory, and San Francisco, California.[219] |
Continental | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer struck the wreck of the 536-ton sidewheel paddle steamer James Montgomery (![]() |
Dashaway | Unknown | The schooner was stranded on the northern coast of California at Big Flat, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Cape Mendocino. By the time she was found on 3 January 1865, 14 of those on board had died.[220] |
George Washington | Unknown | The vessel was lost in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of California.[128] |
J. M. Chapman | ![]() |
The schooner was lost in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from Shoalwater Bay in Queensland, Australia, and San Francisco, California.[221] |
Kate L. Bruce | ![]() |
American Civil War: The armed steamer was sunk as a blockship in the Chattahoochee River.[222] |
USS Monarch | ![]() |
The decommissioned sidewheel ram was sunk by ice while laid up on the Mississippi River below St. Louis, Missouri. She was refloated and was scrapped in July 1865.[20] |
North America | ![]() |
American Civil War: During a voyage under charter to the United States Department of War, carrying 225 sick and wounded Union Army soldiers from New Orleans, Louisiana, to New York City, the 1,061-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Georgia at 31°10′N 78°40′W / 31.167°N 78.667°W on 22 or 24 December with the loss of 197 lives.[133] |
Swordfish | ![]() |
The brig was lost on the Toddy Rocks off Hull, Massachusetts.[223] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Belle Creole | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near West Columbia, West Virginia, during the winter of 1863-1864.[33] |
Belle Peoria | ![]() |
The sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Missouri River at Fort Buford in the Dakota Territory sometime between 1862 and 1864. She was repaired and returned to service.[101] |
Blanco | ![]() |
The 170-ton brig capsized off the coast of Oregon off the Siletz River and washed ashore at the river′s mouth, where Native Americans looted and burned her wreck. Her crew disappeared and were rumored to have been killed by Native Americans.[175] |
Brandt | Unknown | The vessel was lost either on 19 October or 26 November, either off the coast of Oregon in Yaquina Bay or off Ediz Hook, Washington.[175] |
Carolina | ![]() |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The merchant ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico after departing Galveston, Texas. |
Catherine | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: During an attempt to run the Union blockade, the schooner was stranded at Sabine Pass on the border between Louisiana and Texas sometime during the American Civil War.[36] |
CSS Columbus | ![]() |
American Civil War: The screw steamer was burned and sunk in the Ogeechee River in Georgia, 5 miles (8 km) above the wreck of the sidewheel paddle steamer CSS Nashville (![]() |
Convey | ![]() |
The 350-ton steamer burned and sank in 12 feet (3.7 meters) of water in Pensacola Bay off Pensacola, Florida.[224] |
Cordelia Ann | ![]() |
The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Ohio River below Grandview, Indiana, during the summer of 1864.[15] |
Dr. Kane | ![]() |
The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in deep water in the Ohio River 300 yards (274 meters) below the public wharf at Cairo, Illinois, sometime during the American Civil War.[15] |
Ellwood | ![]() |
The 21-ton sidewheel ferry sank on the St. Francis River in Arkansas in the autumn of 1864. She later was refloated.[204] |
Enterprise | Unknown | The full-rigged ship was lost at Point Chehalis on the coast of Washington Territory.[98] |
Explorer | ![]() |
The barge was torn from her moorings and sank during a flood on the Colorado River at Pilot Knob, California, near Yuma, Arizona.[223] |
Fanny | Unknown | The sloop lost her masts, became waterlogged, and was wrecked on the coast of Washington Territory off Shoalwater Bay or Willapa Bay. Her hulk later capsized and sank after Pacific (flag unknown) rammed it.[98] |
Fanny Lewis | Unknown | The 273-ton brig was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina off Fort Fisher.[38] |
CSS Gallego | ![]() |
American Civil War: The schooner was run aground in a sinking condition by Confederate forces on the James River below the obstructions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, in late 1864. She was refloated on 18 January 1865, repaired, and returned to service.[225][47] |
CSS General Clinch | ![]() |
American Civil War: Evidence exists that the armed 256-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer or screw steamer was refloated in Charleston Harbor off the coast of South Carolina during or before October 1864 for use as a blockade runner.[226][227] |
General McNeil | Unknown | The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, Missouri, sometime during the 1860s.[66] |
Gillum | ![]() |
The steamer was wrecked during a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Matamoros, Mexico. Nine members of her crew were rescued from one of her boats in the Gulf of Mexico off Sabine Pass by the armed screw steamer USS Circassian (![]() |
Hartford | Unknown | The bark was wrecked on the Humboldt Bar in Humboldt Bay on the coast of California in either October 1861 or October 1864.[221] |
J. E. Murcock | Unknown | The schooner may have been stranded in Mendocino County, California, during 1864.[221] |
J. H. Done | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 211-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Arkansas River at Scotia, Arkansas.[67] |
CSS John F. Carr | ![]() |
The 200-ton sidewheel cottonclad gunboat may have been wrecked in Matagorda Bay on the coast of Texas.[90] |
John Rumsey | ![]() |
The 39-ton steamer was lost at St. Paul, Minnesota.[67] |
La Salle | ![]() |
The 196-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in either August or late September.[19] |
Louisa | ![]() |
The 250-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Missouri River at South Point, Missouri, after her cargo caught fire.[135] |
Louisville | ![]() |
The 288-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank below Sioux City, Iowa, and Fort Randall in Dakota Territory in either April or May.[135] |
Marens | Unknown | The brig sank in the James River in Virginia sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[228] |
Mary Lou | ![]() |
Carrying a cargo of whiskey, the steamer was lost on the Missouri River below Omaha, Nebraska Territory.[135] |
Noyo | ![]() |
The 95-ton schooner was wrecked on Coos Bay Bar in Coos Bay off the coast of Oregon and burned to the waterline.[175] |
Ocean Bird | ![]() |
The bark either was lost in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington Territory on 19 March or disappeared on 3 April.[98] |
Orion | ![]() |
The 138-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Eureka Landing, Missouri.[135] |
Osiris | ![]() |
American Civil War: The 145- or 183-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, operated as a ferry by the Confederate Quartermaster Department on the coast of South Carolina between Charleston, Castle Pickney, and Sullivn's Island, was destroyed by a fire allegedly set by Union sympathizers sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[229] |
Rialto | ![]() |
The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River at the mouth of Bee Creek, about 2 miles (3.2 km) below Weston, Missouri.[135] |
Stephen Decatur | ![]() |
The 308-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Devil's Island below St. Louis, Missouri, sometime between 1862 and 1865. She later was refloated.[17] |
Victoria | ![]() |
The four-masted schooner was burned at Port Famine Slough in Mexico in 1863 or 1864.[100] |
William B. Romer | ![]() |
The pilot schooner was wrecked on submerged rock – later named Romer Shoal – in New York Harbor off New York City sometime during the American Civil War (April 1861–April 1865). One pilot lost his life in the wreck.[147] |
Wythe | Unknown | The schooner sank in the James River in Virginia sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[230] |
12 unidentified barges | ![]() |
American Civil War: The barges Buena Vista, Commodore Stockton, Fort (112 tons), John McHale (122 tons), John Mitchell (114 tons), Margaret and Rebecca (125 tons), Mary Ann, Mary Linda (116 tons), Musadora (123 tons), Pilgrim (126 tons), Richard Vaux (120 tons), and Rolling Wave (112 tons) and two unnamed barges (all ![]() |
Unidentified large boat | ![]() |
American Civil War: The boat was destroyed by the vessel Brinker (![]() |
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- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Firefly
- ^ Gaines, p. 48-49.
- ^ Gaines, p. 51
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Ship Histories: Confederate Ships: Arctic
- ^ Gaines, p. 112.
- ^ Gaines, p. 173.
- ^ Gaines, p. 75.
- ^ Gaines, p. 26.
- ^ Gaines, pp. 26-27.
- ^ a b c Gaines, p. 28.
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Kate L. Bruce
- ^ a b Gaines, p. 80.
- ^ Gaines, p. 39.
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Gallego
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Clinch
- ^ Gaines, p. 146.
- ^ Gaines, p.184.
- ^ Gaines, p. 152.
- ^ a b c Gaines, p. 191.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.