List of shipwrecks in April 1865
The list of shipwrecks in April 1865 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1865.
April 1865 | ||||||
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22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
29 | 30 | Unknown date |
1 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Bertrand | Carrying a cargo of agricultural goods, clothes, food, machinery, mercury, mining supplies, whiskey, and Union Army howitzer ammunition to mining districts in Montana Territory, the 251-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in 8 feet (2.4 meters) of water five to ten minutes after striking a snag in the Desoto Bend of the Missouri River at 41°31′24″N 96°1′44″W / 41.52333°N 96.02889°W, near what is now Blair, Nebraska.[1] | |
USS Rodolph |
3 April
4 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Seaboard | American Civil War: Captured by Union Army troops and the armed tug USS Lilac ( |
5 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mystic | American Civil War: The 154-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned on the Neuse River in North Carolina by troops of the 67th North Carolina Regiment ( | |
Unidentified transport | American Civil War: The transport, carrying a cargo of commissary stores, was captured and burned on the Neuse River in North Carolina near Cowpen Landing by troops of the 67th North Carolina Regiment ( |
7 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Minquas (or Minquass) | American Civil War: The 160-ton sidehweel paddle steamer and two barges carrying quartermaster and commissary supplies she was towing were captured and burned on the Neuse River in North Carolina by troops of the 67th North Carolina Regiment ( | |
Unidentified ironclad | American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad warship was destroyed by Confederate forces while still on the building ways at Edwards Ferry in North Carolina.[19] |
8 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified floating battery | American Civil War: The floating battery was sunk in shallow water by a drifting Confederate mine while anchored in the Roanoke River 8 miles (13 km) above Plymouth, North Carolina, then was burned by a launch from the gunboat USS Iosco ( |
11 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie | American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, carrying a cargo of cotton, was captured in the Gulf of Mexico off the Crystal River in Florida by the schooner USS Sea Bird ( | |
Florida | American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, carrying a cargo of cotton, was captured and scuttled in the Gulf of Mexico off the Crystal River in Florida by the schooner USS Sea Bird ( |
12 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Huntsville | American Civil War:The ironclad warship was scuttled at 30°46′09″N 88°01′14″W / 30.76924°N 88.02053°W in the Spanish River in Alabama to avoid capture by Union forces. | |
CSS Tuscaloosa | American Civil War: The ironclad ram was scuttled at 30°46′09″N 88°01′14″W / 30.76924°N 88.02053°W in the Spanish River 12 miles (19 km) north of Mobile, Alabama, to avoid capture by Union forces.[21] |
13 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Ida | American Civil War: The screw steamer sank in Mobile Bay off the coast of Alabama after striking a Confederate mine.[2] |
14 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Augusta | American Civil War, Wilson's Raid: Carrying a cargo of coffee and bacon, the steamer was captured on the Coosa River by the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( | |
Henry J. King | American Civil War, Wilson's Raid: The steamer was captured on the Coosa River by the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( | |
Milliner | American Civil War, Wilson's Raid: The steamer was captured on the Coosa River by the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( | |
USS Sciota | American Civil War: The gunboat sank in Mobile Bay off Mobile, Alabama, after striking a Confederate mine.[2] Her wreck was raised and sold later in 1865. | |
Two unidentified steamboats | American Civil War, Wilson's Raid: The steamboats, carrying cargoes of cotton, corn, and commissary stores, were captured on the Coosa River by the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( |
16 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellwood | The 171-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Hatchie River in Tennessee.[26] |
17 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Chattahoochee | ||
CSS Jackson | American Civil War, Battle of Columbus: The ironclad ram, captured by Union Army ( |
19 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Denbigh | American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner ran aground on the bar at Galveston, Texas, while trying to put to sea. She was refloated and continued her voyage after her crew threw 200 bales of cotton overboard.[2] | |
Lady Jane | The 40-ton steamer struck a bridge on the Mississippi River at Rock Island, Illinois, and sank with the loss of one life.[27] |
22 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Black Hawk |
24 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Black Diamond | The 100-ton brigantine was wrecked at New Plymouth, where she had travelled with a load of timber from Havelock. She drifted ashore and holed, sinking with most of her cargo. All hands were saved.[29] | |
USS O. M. Pettit | American Civil War: The sidewheel tug sank in the Savannah River near Hammond, Georgia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[30] | |
CSS Webb |
27 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sultana | The sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed on the Mississippi River 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee, by a boiler explosion and fire. Estimates of the number of dead range from 1,100 to 1,547, with the most recent evidence indicating that 1,196 passengers and crew lost their lives. One estimate places the number of survivors as low as 931, although the most recent estimate is that 959 survived. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alpha | The cutter went ashore at Patea and became wrecked.[29] | |
Clara Poe | American Civil War: The 208-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Cumberland River at Eddyville, Kentucky, on 15 or 17 April.[31] | |
General Whiting | American Civil War: The 816-gross ton steamer′s hull was recovered near Wilmington, North Carolina, and was discovered to have had its midships section burned and its machinery stripped.[32] | |
Harriet DeFord | American Civil War: Captured by Confederate guerrillas in the Chesapeake Bay off Fairhaven, Maryland, on 4 April during a voyage from Patuxent to Baltimore, Maryland, the 149-ton screw steamer was burned to the waterline in Virginia on the Rappahannock River at Dimer's Creek on 5 or 7 April.[2][8] | |
USS Rose | The 96-ton armed tug, a screw steamer, was sunk by a Confederate mine in Mobile Bay, Alabama, with the loss of two killed and three wounded. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[33] | |
St. Paul | American Civil War: The steamer was burned on the Hatchie River in Tennessee by Confederate guerrillas who had captured her on 16 April, killing one of her deckhands in the process.[34] | |
Scillonian | The schooner went ashore and was wrecked at Waitotara while en route from Wellington to Patea.[35] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 105-106.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-April 1865
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 175-176.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah. 1864-1865. Captain James I. Waddell"
- 1 2 3 4 5 Project Muse: Appendix. List of Prizes Taken by the CSS Shenandoah. Kept by Lt. William C. Whittle, Jr.
- 1 2 3 4 Gaines, p. 139.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 180-181.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 182.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 185.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 186.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 187.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 188.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Torpedo
- ↑ Gaines, p. 189.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 190.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 124.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 133.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 123.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 132.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 40.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Tuscaloosa
- ↑ Gaines, p. 1.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 3.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 4.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 8.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 160.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 98.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
- 1 2 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 110.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 49.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 120.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 6.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 162.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 109.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, 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.
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