List of shipwrecks in 1864

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The list of shipwrecks in 1864 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1864.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1864
Ship State Description
All Serene   United States The ship capsized in the Fiji Islands. She was on a voyage from Puget Sound to Sydney, New South Wales.[1]
Amelia   Straits Settlements The ship was wrecked in the Paracel Islands.[1]
Australia   United Kingdom The ship was lost in the Bali Strait. She was on a voyage from Shanghai, China to Liverpool, Lancashire.[2]
Avalon Cleary   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Bannolong   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Belle Creole   United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near West Columbia, West Virginia, during the winter of 1863-1864.[4]
Belle Peoria   United States 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.[5]
Blanco   United States The 170-ton brig capsized off the coast of Oregon off the mouth of the Siletz River and washed ashore at the river′s mouth, where Native Americans looted and burned her wreck. Her crew disappeared and were rumoured to have been killed by Native Americans.[6]
Brandt Flag unknown The vessel was lost either on 19 October or 26 November, either in Yaquina Bay or off Ediz Hook, Washington Territory.[6]
Breadalbane   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Bellambi, New South Wales.[7]
Brothers   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Carolina   Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The merchant ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico after departing Galveston, Texas.
Catherine Flag 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, Confederate States of America sometime during the American Civil War.[8]
CSS Columbus   Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The screw steamer was burned and sunk in the Ogeechee River in Georgia, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) above the wreck of the sidewheel paddle steamer CSS Nashville (  Confederate States Navy).
Convey   United States The 350-ton steamer burned and sank in 12 feet (3.7 m) of water in Pensacola Bay off Pensacola, Florida, Confederate States of America.[9]
Cordelia Ann   United States The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Ohio River below Grandview, Indiana, during the summer of 1864.[10]
Dr. Kane   United States The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in deep water in the Ohio River 300 yards (270 m) below the public wharf at Cairo, Illinois, sometime during the American Civil War.[10]
Elizabeth Flag unknown The full-rigged ship was lost at Manasquan, New Jersey.[11]
Elizabeth   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Ellwood   United States The 21-ton sidewheel ferry sank on the St. Francis River in Arkansas in the autumn of 1864. She later was refloated.[12]
Enterprise Flag unknown The full-rigged ship was lost at Point Chehalis on the coast of Washington Territory.[13]
Evanthes   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Explorer   United States The barge was torn from her moorings and sank during a flood on the Colorado River at Pilot Knob, California, near Yuma, Arizona.[14]
Falcon   Norway The brig ran aground on the East Barrow Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance from the tug Amazon and the smack Increase (both   United Kingdom).[15]
Fanny Flag 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.[13]
Fanny Lewis Flag unknown The 273-ton brig was wrecked off Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Confederate States of America.[16]
CSS Gallego   Confederate States Navy 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.[17][18]
General McNeil Flag unknown The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, sometime during the 1860s.[19]
Gillum   United States 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 (  United States Navy) on 3 September. The schooner Cora (Flag unknown) picked up the rest of her crew.[20]
Harriet Ridley   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay with the loss of all hands.[3]
Hartford Flag unknown The barque was wrecked on the Humboldt Bar in Humboldt Bay on the coast of California in either October 1861 or October 1864.[21]
Helena Lavinia   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
J. E. Murcock Flag unknown The schooner may have been stranded in Mendocino County, California, during 1864.[21]
J. H. Done   United States American Civil War: The 211-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Arkansas River at Scotia, Arkansas.[22]
CSS John F. Carr   Confederate States Navy The 200-ton sidewheel cottonclad gunboat may have been wrecked in Matagorda Bay on the coast of Texas.[23]
John Rumsey   United States The 39-ton steamer was lost at St. Paul, Minnesota.[22]
Lady Prudhoe   United Kingdom The ship foundered off Cape Horn, Chile. Her crew were rescued.[24]
La Salle   United States 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.[25]
Lilledale   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Louis Glag unknown The ship foundered in Lake Boden. Attempts to raise her by means of air bags were unsuccessful.[26]
Louisa   United States The 250-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Missouri River at South Point, Missouri, after her cargo caught fire.[27]
Louisville   United States 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.[27]
Marens Flag unknown The brig sank in the James River sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[28]
Martha   Norway The whaler was crushed by ice and sank off Greenland. Her crew survived.[29]
Mary Lou   United States Carrying a cargo of whiskey, the steamer was lost on the Missouri River below Omaha, Nebraska Territory.[27]
Monio Flag unknown The brig was lost near Manasquan, New Jersey.[11]
Noyo   United States The 95-ton schooner was wrecked on Coos Bay Bar in Coos Bay off the coast of Oregon and burned to the waterline.[6]
Ocean Bird   United States The barque either was lost in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington Territory on 19 March, or she disappeared on 3 April.[13]
Orion   United States The 138-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Eureka Landing, Missouri.[27]
Osiris   Confederate States of America 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 Sullivan's Island, was destroyed by a fire allegedly set by Union sympathizers sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[30]
Packet   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay with the loss of all hands.[3]
Pride of the Huon   New Zealand The schooner, operated by the Canterbury Provincial Government was lost while leaving harbour on New Zealand's South Island West Coast, probably at Martins Bay, sometime prior to March 1864. The crew survived the wreck, but one died on the arduous trek across mountainous country to the nearest town, Queenstown.[31]
Rialto   United States The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River at the mouth of Bee Creek, about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) downstream of Weston, Missouri.[27]
Shannon   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Stephen Decatur   United States 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 was later refloated.[32]
Superior   British North America The sealer was lost in Green Bay. Her crew survived.[3]
Victoria   United States The four-masted schooner was burned at Port Famine Slough in Mexico in 1863 or 1864.[33]
William B. Romer   United States The pilot schooner was wrecked on submerged rock – later named Romer Shoal – in New York Harbor off New York sometime during the American Civil War. One pilot lost his life in the wreck.[34]
Wythe Flag unknown The schooner sank in the James River sometime during the American Civil War.[35]
Twleve barges   United States 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   United States) were purchased to be xcuttled as blockships at Trent's Reach in the James River by Union forces and were loaded with 60 short tons (54.4 ( metric tons/tonnes) of stone each. Three of the barges sank while under tow from Baltimore, Maryland, to Hampton Roads, Virginia, sometime after 13 July, two sank at Hampton Roads, five were scuttled on 20 July at Trent′s Reach, and two were scuttled later in Trent’s Reach. Which of the barges sank in which location and when was not recorded.[35]
Unidentified large boat   Confederate States of America American Civil War: The boat was destroyed by the vessel Brinker (  United States) in the James River ca. December 1864.[35]

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Notes edit

  1. ^ a b "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5134. Liverpool. 15 July 1864.
  2. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5176. Liverpool. 2 September 1864.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Ship News". The Times. No. 24893. London. 6 June 1864. col E, p. 14.
  4. ^ Gaines, p. 195.
  5. ^ Gaines, p. 105.
  6. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 138.
  7. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5264. Liverpool. 14 December 1864.
  8. ^ Gaines, p. 167.
  9. ^ Gaines, p. 39.
  10. ^ a b Gaines, p. 135.
  11. ^ a b "njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"". Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  12. ^ Gaines, p. 9.
  13. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 194.
  14. ^ Gaines, p. 80.
  15. ^ Benham, Hervey (1980). The Salvagers. Colchester: Essex County Newspapers Ltd. p. 189. ISBN 00-950944-2-3.
  16. ^ Gaines, p. 119.
  17. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Gallego
  18. ^ Gaines, p. 181.
  19. ^ Gaines, p. 106.
  20. ^ Gaines, p. 168.
  21. ^ a b Gaines, p. 28.
  22. ^ a b Gaines, p. 10.
  23. ^ Gaines, p. 169.
  24. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 25009. London. 21 October 1864. col C, p. 10.
  25. ^ Gaines, p. 99.
  26. ^ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 28460. London. 30 October 1875. col E, p. 4.
  27. ^ a b c d e Gaines, p. 107.
  28. ^ Gaines, p.184.
  29. ^ "Arrival of the Æolus". Hull Packet. No. 4145. Hull. 1 July 1864.
  30. ^ Gaines, p. 152.
  31. ^ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 99.
  32. ^ Gaines, p. 103.
  33. ^ Gaines, p. 81.
  34. ^ Gaines, p. 110.
  35. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 191.

Bibliography edit

  • Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008 Archived 2010-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
  • Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.