List of shipwrecks in April 1864

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

April 1864
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 Unknown date

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Fair Haven  United States The 474-ton screw steamer was stranded at Cape Henry, Virginia.[1]
Key West No. 4  United States 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.[2]
Maple Leaf  United States Army 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  Union Army), struck a Confederate mine in the St. Johns River in Florida at McIntosh's Point opposite Doctors Lake 15 miles (24 km) above Jacksonville and sank with the loss of four lives, leaving her funnels and upper deck above water. A company of the 1st Georgia Infantry Regiment and a section of the Florida Light Artillery (both  Confederate States Army) burned her funnels and upper deck on 2 April. She and her cargo were declared a total loss.[3][4][5][6]

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Jackson  United States The 84-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana.[7]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Matilda  Confederate States of America 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.[8]

5 April

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Jo Jacques  United States The 34-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois, after colliding with General Anderson (flag unknown).[9]
New Falls City  Confederate States of America 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.[10]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Magpie  Royal Navy The Dapper-class gunboat was wrecked in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland.

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Adams  United States American Civil War: The steamer, carrying a cargo of United States Army quartermaster′s stores and ammunition, collided with the steamer Chippewa ( United States) on the Arkansas River 20 miles (32 km) below Little Rock, Arkansas, and sank.[11]
La Crosse  United States American Civil War: The 186-ton sternwheel or screw steamer burned at Egg Bend, Louisiana.[12]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Rosina  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was forced aground off San Luis Pass, Texas, by the armed screw steamer USS Virginia ( United States Navy). She was set afire by U.S. Navy shelling on 15 April.[3][13]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sloop was captured and destroyed on the Nansemond River in Virginia by crew members of the gunboat Reno ( United States Army) and troops of the 9th New Jersey Infantry Regiment ( Union Army).[14]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Eastport  United States Navy 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.
Emma  United Kingdom The sealing ship, Captain Gavill, foundered at 70°10′N 14°00′W / 70.167°N 14.000°W / 70.167; -14.000, where the whaler Elise ( Norway), Captain Gunnar, rescued the crew.[15]
Rosina  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was forced aground and destroyed off San Luis Pass, Texas, by the screw steamer USS Virginia ( United States Navy).[3]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
General Hunter  United States Army 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.[3][16]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Lecompte  United States 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.[17]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Bombshell  United States Army 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 ( Confederate States Navy). Union forces recaptured her on 5 May 1864.[18][19]
Good Hope  Confederate States of America 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 ( United States Navy).[3][16]

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Falls City  United States The 183-ton sternwheel paddle steamer foundered in Loggy Bayou in Louisiana.[20]
USS Southfield  United States Navy
Illustration of USS Southfield sinking.
American Civil War, Battle of Plymouth: The gunboat was rammed and sunk in the Roanoke River off Plymouth, North Carolina, by the ironclad ram CSS Albemarle ( Confederate States Navy). Twelve of her crew died; 49 were rescued.[21]

22 April

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Petrel  United States Navy 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

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Hastings  United States The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Alexandria, Louisiana.[22]
Rockingham  United States 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 / -15.883; -31.733 (Rockingham) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][23][24]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Champion No. 3  United States 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 ( Confederate States Army) exploded in her boiler, scalding to death 177 of the 192 people on board, including 172 freed slaves. Confederate forces then sank her wreck in the river as a blockship.[25][26]
Homer  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Champion No. 5  United States 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 ( Confederate States Army). She ran aground and sank, leaving her hurricane deck and boiler deck underwater.[26][27]
Tycoon  United States 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 ( Confederate States Navy).[3][28]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Amelia  United States The schooner was lost near Point Judith, Rhode Island.[29]
Chippewa Valley  United States The 101-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Cumberland River in Tennessee 5 miles (8 km) below Gallatin Landing.[30]
Grecian  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on Nine Mile Beach, New South Wales, Australia, during a gale.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Idaho  United States American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk accidentally by a United States Navy gunboat in the Ohio River. She later was refloated.[31]
Juanita  Mexico 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 ( United States Navy) on 11 April, ran aground at San Luis Pass on either 11 or 13 April and was captured by Confederate forces. One source claims she was aground on 12 April when United States Navy warships shelled her, hitting her once.[3][32]
St. Mary′s  United States 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.[33]
Two unidentified torpedo boats  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The torpedo boats were destroyed in a large cotton fire at Wilmington, North Carolina.[34]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Gaines, p. 10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January–June 1864
  4. ↑ Barnette, Michael C. (2008). Florida's Shipwrecks. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5413-6.
  5. ↑ FJ Cantelas, BA Rodgers (1997). "Tools, Techniques, and Zero Visibility Archaeology". In: EJ Maney, Jr and CH Ellis, Jr (Eds.) the Diving for Science...1997, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Seventeenth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 42.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 67.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 37.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 71.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 8.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 68.
  13. ↑ Gaines p. 171.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 193.
  15. ↑ Dundee Advertiser, 16 May 1864: "THE LOSS OF THE WHALER EMMA".
  16. 1 2 Gaines, p. 40.
  17. ↑ Gaines, p. 69.
  18. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Bombshell
  19. ↑ Gaines, p. 115.
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 64.
  21. ↑ Gaines, p. 128.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 66.
  23. ↑ Ahoy – Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862–1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 16.
  25. ↑ Gaines, p. 61.
  26. 1 2 civilwarlandscapes.org Chronology Calendar Tuesday, April 26, 1864
  27. ↑ Gaines, pp. 61–62.
  28. ↑ Gaines, p. 24
  29. ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
  30. ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
  31. ↑ Gaines, p. 135.
  32. ↑ Gaines, p. 169.
  33. ↑ Gaines, pp. 6, 44.
  34. ↑ Gaines, p. 133.

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