List of shipwrecks in April 1863

The list of shipwrecks in April 1863 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1863.

April 1863
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1 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Schooner "Jessie", of Shields  United Kingdom The vessel's reported sinking from water ingress and pump failure while "seven days out of Stockholm, and within sight of Scotland" was described in a bottle-enclosed message written by a crew member who recorded the loss of the master and the readying of boats at 11 a.m.[1]

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
USS Alligator  United States Navy While under tow from the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., to Port Royal, South Carolina, by the armed steamer USS Sumpter ( United States Navy), the submarine was cut loose and lost in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm.[2]
Helen  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of corn, the sloop was captured and burned by a boat expedition from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Fort Henry, the gunboat USS Sagamore, and the brig USS St. Lawrence (all  United States Navy) on the coast of Florida at the mouth of Bayport Harbor off Bayport.[3][4]
Union  United States Bound from Hilton Head to Beaufort, South Carolina, with a cargo of rifle muskets and gunpowder, the 139-ton sternwheel transport was in a sinking condition with her sternwheel breaking up when the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Maratanza ( United States Navy) rescued her crew and set her on fire. Maratanza and the sloop-of-war USS Sacramento ( United States Navy) then fired two 11-inch (279-mm) shells into her, and she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean a 0.5 nautical mile (0.9 km) off New Inlet, North Carolina.[5]
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the schooner was burned by the Confederates to prevent her capture by a boat expedition from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Fort Henry, the gunboat USS Sagamore, and the brig USS St. Lawrence (all  United States Navy) in Bayport Harbor off Bayport, Florida.[6]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Marion Unknown The 900-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Doubleshot Key in the Bahamas.[7]
Natchez  Confederate States of America The 714-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Castleman, Mississippi.[8]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Marion  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The 258-ton sidewheel transport sank in 30 seconds after accidentally drifting onto a mine she had laid earlier at the mouth of the Ashley River near the mouth of Wappoo Creek off Charleston, South Carolina. The mine exploded, ripping out her bottom and killing one of her officers.[9][10]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
USS Barataria  United States Navy American Civil War: After the ironclad gunboat became stuck on a snag in Lake Maurepas at the mouth of the Amite River in Louisiana, her crew burned her to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. She exploded when the flames reached her magazine.[11][12]
Walpole  United States The 145-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on Minots Ledge off Cohasset, Massachusetts, with the loss of two lives.[13]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Berosa  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Florida at 29°50′N 079°50′W / 29.833°N 79.833°W / 29.833; -79.833 (Berosa).[14]
Julius D. Morton  United States The 472-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the St. Clair River near Monroe, Michigan.[15]
USS Keokuk  United States Navy
Harper's Weekly illustration from 1863 of USS Keokuk sinking.
American Civil War, First Battle of Charleston Harbor: The experimental ironclad screw steamer sank 1,300 yards (1,189 meters) off the south end of Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, at 32°41′36″N 79°52′19″W / 32.69333°N 79.87194°W / 32.69333; -79.87194 (USS Keokuk) after taking 90 hits from Confederate artillery the previous day, 19 of them at or below the waterline.[16]
R. C. M. Lovell  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sutler′s stores for the Union Army, the 45-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River above Clarksville, Tennessee, by the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army). The Confederates executed her captain and eight African Americans who were on board.[17]
Saxonia  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sutler′s stores for the Union Army, the 60-ton screw steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River near Clarksville, Tennessee, by the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[17]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
George Washington  United States Army American Civil War: The 243-ton armed sidewheel transport ran aground in the Coosaw River in South Carolina one mile (1.6 km) east of the Port Royal Ferry near Chisholm Island and was ambushed by elements of the Nelson Light Artillery, the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and the 11th South Carolina Infantry Regiment (all  Confederate States Army). During the ensuing action, Confederate gunfire damaged her rudder and struck her ammunition magazine, starting a fire that burned her to the waterline before she sank in shallow water. Her crew and Union Army soldiers on board abandoned her after suffering two killed, ten wounded, and two missing.[18]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
J. D. Clarke  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The sidewheel transport was scuttled in the Mississippi River in Louisiana outside the mouth of the Red River of the South by the sloop-of-war USS Hartford ( United States Navy). Hartford had captured her the previous day.[19][20]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Annie  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the sloop was captured and scuttled on the Crystal River in Florida by the schooner USS Sea Bird ( United States Navy).[21]]
CSS Queen of the West  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Attacked by the sidewheel paddle steamers USS Arizona, USS Calhoun, and USS Estrella (all  United States Navy) on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana, the ram was set afire by a shell hit from Calhoun and was abandoned by her crew. She drifted downriver and exploded when the fire reached her magazine.
Stonewall Jackson  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: After the armed screw steamer USS Flag, the armed schooner USS G. W. Blunt, and the gunboat USS Huron (all  United States Navy) damaged her with gunfire as she attempted to run the Union blockade into Charleston, South Carolina, from Nassau in the Bahamas carrying 54 passengers and crew and a cargo of rifled guns, ammunition, saltpeter, shoes, tin ingots, lead ingots, and copper ingots, the 862- or 872-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground off the coast of South Carolina in the Rattlesnake Channel or North Channel near Sullivan's Island. Flag and Huron burned her there at daybreak on 12 April.[11][22]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Golden Liner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade:The blockade runner was lost on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.[23]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Stevens  Confederate States Navy The incomplete gunboat was burned on Bayou Teche, two miles (3.2 km) below New Iberia, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[24]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Diana  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The gunboat was burned on Bayou Teche near Franklin, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[25]
CSS Hart  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The 175-ton ironclad sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in Grand Lake in the vicinity of Camp Bisland on Bayou Teche in Louisiana to prevent her capture by Union forces. An intelligence report by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Clifton ( United States Navy) on 28 July 1863 reported that Confederate forces had almost refloated Hart, but had sunk her again upon the appearance of U.S. Navy gunboats.[26][27]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Lafayette  United States American Civil War: The whaler was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean near Fernando de Noronha by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[28][11]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Henry Clay  United States Army American Civil War: The 257-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire on the Mississippi River by Confederate artillery fire while passing Vicksburg, Mississippi. Her crew cut loose a barge she was towing that had Union Army soldiers aboard, then abandoned ship without loss of life. Henry Clay floated downstream as far as New Carthage, Mississippi, before burning to the waterline.[29]
Prioress  United States The 393-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio, with the loss of one life.[30]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Alliance  United States The 136-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Devil Island in the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[31]
Blue Hammock  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 74-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[32]
Commonwealth  United States American Civil War: The 1,300-ton clipper, bound from New York City to San Francisco, California, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[11][33][34]
CSS Darby  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The armed steamer was burned in Louisiana at on Bayou Teche near Bayou Fusilier above Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[35]
Kate Corey  United States American Civil War: The 132-ton whaler was burned in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Fernando de Noronha by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy). Alabama had captured Kate Corey on 15 April.[28][11][36]
Louisa Hatch  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship was burned by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy) in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Fernando de Noronha. Alabama had captured Louisa Hatch and her cargo of 1,100 tons of coal in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on 4 April.[11][28][36]
Louise  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 343- or 369-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[37]
Uncle Tommy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamboat was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[38]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Inez  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 4-ton schooner, attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt and shoe thread, was captured and destroyed off Indian River Inlet, Florida, by the bark USS Gem of the Sea ( United States Navy).[11][4]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Fly United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The cutter dragged her anchors in a heavy swell while at port in Riverton, New Zealand. The vesel was found to be unmanageable, and the crew were taken off by a pilot boat. The pilot boat capsized in the swell, killing its master and one of his crew, along with two of the Fly's crew.[39]

22-23 April

List of shipwrecks: 22-23 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Tigress  United States Army American Civil War: The steamer was struck by Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the Mississippi River and ran aground She broke in half and sank after taking additional shell hits. Her passengers and crew were rescued by J. W. Cheeseman ( United States).[11][40]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Henrietta  United States American Civil War: The bark, bound from New York City or Baltimore, Maryland (sources disagree) to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a cargo of candles, flour, and lard, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[33][11][41]
Hyack Unknown The bark was wrecked on a reef in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Mendocino, California.[42]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Nye  United States American Civil War: The 211-ton whaler, a bark bound from a whaling expedition in the Pacific Ocean to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with a cargo of whale oil and whalebone, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil at 05°45′15″S 31°53′00″W / 5.75417°S 31.88333°W / -5.75417; -31.88333 (Nye) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[11][28][43]
Oneida  United States American Civil War: The clipper, bound from Shanghai, China, to New York City with a cargo of tea worth US$1 million, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[11][33][44]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Antoinette Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by Union forces on the coast of South Carolina at Murrell's Inlet.[45]
Dictator  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of coal, was burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands at 25°45′00″N 23°15′30″W / 25.75000°N 23.25833°W / 25.75000; -23.25833 (Dictator) by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy). Georgia had captured Dictator on 25 April.[11][41]
Dorcas Prince  United States American Civil War: The 699-ton full-rigged ship, bound for Shanghai, China, from New York City with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Natal, Brazil, at 07°37′S 31°30′W / 7.617°S 31.500°W / -7.617; -31.500 (Dorcas Prince) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[11][28][36]
George Chisholm Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by Union forces on the coast of South Carolina at Murrell's Inlet.[18]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Ada Hancock  United States While transferring 60 passengers and US$45,000 to the steamer Senator ( United States) in San Pedro Bay in the harbor at Wilmington, California, the steamer careened, admitting cold sea water into her engine room, which caused her boiler to explode. The explosion blew the ship to pieces down to her waterline, throwing some pieces of debris as far as one-half to three-quarters of a mile (0.8 to 1.2 km). At least 26 people died immediately, and of the 37 others who were injured, 23 later died.[43]
Anglo Saxon  United Kingdom Bound from Liverpool, England, to Quebec in dense fog with 444 or 445 passengers and crew aboard (sources disagree), the 1,715-gross ton screw steamer ran aground in Clam Cove about four miles (6.5 km) north of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and broke up within an hour, killing 237 or 256 people (sources disagree).[46]
Golden Liner  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The large schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of flour, brandy, sugar, and coffee, was boarded and destroyed in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by boat crews from the armed screw steamer USS Monticello and the armed schooner USS Matthew Vassar (both  United States Navy).[11][47]
USS Preble  United States Navy American Civil War: The sloop-of-war accidentally caught fire, was abandoned, exploded, and sank in Pensacola Bay off Pensacola, Florida.[48]

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
USS Lily  United States Navy American Civil War: While attempting to cross the bow of the anchored gunboat USS Choctaw ( United States Navy) in the Yazoo River in Mississippi, the tug was swept onto Choctaw′s ram by the current and sank.
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with a cargo of salt, the schooner was burned in a creek near Magnolia Beach, South Carolina, by a Union landing party.[49]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Horizon  United States American Civil War: Transporting Company G of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery Regiment ( Union Army), the 315-ton sternwheel paddle steamer collided during the night of 30 April-1 May with the transport Moderator ( United States) and sank in the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, Mississippi, killing two men and all 60 of the unit′s horses.[50][51]
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was run aground at St Joseph's Island, Texas.[11]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Cricket  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The ship was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[35]
Era No. 2  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The ship was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[52]
CSS Etiwan  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 132-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground on the coast of South Carolina near Fort Johnson in a sinking condition on 4, 6, or 7 June after a drifting mine exploded against her side in Charleston Harbor She was repaired and returned to service.[53]
Gossamer  United States American Civil War: The 144-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Union forces on Bayou Teche at Franklin, Louisiana.[54]
Josephine Wilcutt  United States The 86-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of California at Newport.[42]
Newboy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The transport was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[55]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Miscellaneous Intelligence". The Sydney Morning Herald. XLIX, (8039). New South Wales, Australia. 15 March 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 18 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ Gaines, p. 113.
  3. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Helen
  4. 1 2 Gaines, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 129.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 45.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 87.
  9. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Marion
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 151.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1863
  12. ↑ Gaines p. 60.
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 80.
  14. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Berosa
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 81.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 150.
  17. 1 2 Gaines, p. 162.
  18. 1 2 Gaines, p. 146.
  19. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: J. D. Clarke
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 67.
  21. ↑ Gaines, p. 38.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 155.
  23. ↑ Gaines, p. 120.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 74.
  25. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Diana
  26. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Hart
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 66.
  28. 1 2 3 4 5 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  29. ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
  30. ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
  31. ↑ Gaines, p. 91.
  32. ↑ Gaines, p. 61.
  33. 1 2 3 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Florida. 1862-1863. Captain John Newland Maffitt. CSS Florida. 1864. Captain Charles M. Morris"
  34. ↑ Gaines, p. 13.
  35. 1 2 Gaines, p. 62.
  36. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 23.
  37. ↑ Gaines, p. 69.
  38. ↑ Gaines, p. 75.
  39. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 88.
  40. ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
  41. 1 2 Gaines p. 14.
  42. 1 2 Gaines p. 28.
  43. 1 2 Gaines, p. 24.
  44. ↑ Gaines, p. 16.
  45. ↑ Gaines, p. 143.
  46. ↑ Gaines, p. 32.
  47. ↑ Gaines, p. 147.
  48. ↑ Gaines, p. 44.
  49. ↑ Gaines, p. 157.
  50. ↑ Gaines, p. 97.
  51. ↑ batteryg.net A Short History of Battery G
  52. ↑ Gaines, p. 64.
  53. ↑ Gaines, p. 145.
  54. ↑ Gaines, p. 65.
  55. ↑ Gaines p. 71.

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