List of shipwrecks in August 1862
The list of shipwrecks in August 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1862.
August 1862 | |||||||
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | |
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | |
29 | 30 | 31 | Unknown date |
1 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lizzie | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of arrowroot, caustic acid, blankets, sheet tin, and soda ash, the 41-ton sloop was captured and destroyed by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( |
2 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Commodore Perry | The 193-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Ohio River at the wharves at Louisville, Kentucky, killing three people.[3] |
3 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Unidentified sloop | American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was burned at Smithfield Creek in Virginia by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Delaware ( |
5 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie B. Bourne | The schooner struck a snag in the Sacramento River at Sutterville, California, and sank.[5] | |
CS Ram Arkansas |
7 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Whiteman (or Lewis Whitman) | Carrying dead and wounded from the Battle of Baton Rouge – including the body of Brigadier General Thomas Williams – and a cargo of sutler′s stores, the transport steamer sank in the Mississippi River near Donaldsonville, Louisiana, with the loss of all hands after colliding with the sloop-of-war USS Oneida ( |
11 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Elmea | American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed sloop or schooner ran aground on the coast of Texas in Nueces Bay off Corpus Christi Bay. Confederate forces burned her on 12 August to prevent her capture by the bark USS Arthur ( | |
Unidentified sloop | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt, the sloop was driven ashore in the Potomac River.[11] |
12 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Breaker | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the bark USS Arthur and schooner USS Corypheus (both | |
Hannah | American Civil War, Union blockade: Aground at off Corpus Christi, Texas, at the entrance to Nueces Bay, the sloop or armed schooner was burned by Confederate forces to prevent her capture by either the bark USS Arthur or boats from the armed schooner USS Corypheus (both | |
Laurel Hill | Drifting down the Mississippi River after slipping her moorings at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with rigging for the gunboat USS Kineo ( |
12-13 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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West Point | The 409-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of 76 lives after colliding with George Peabody (flag unknown) on the Potomac River off Ragged Point, Virginia.[15] |
14-15 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Sumter | American Civil War: The steam ram ran aground in the Mississippi River off Bayou Sara in Louisiana. She was stripped by both Confederate and Union forces, then burned by the Confederates.[16] |
18 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Callie | American Civil War: The 129-ton steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Duck River in Tennessee while tied up to the riverbank to exchange cargoes.[17] | |
Skylark | American Civil War: The 371-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Duck River in Tennessee while tied up to the riverbank to exchange cargoes.[18] |
19 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Swallow | American Civil War: Ten to 12 days after she ran aground on the Mississippi River at Glover, Mississippi, the 190-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces.[8][19] |
21 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Acacia Cottage | The 100- or 109-ton sternweel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River about 25 miles (40 km) above Helena, Arkansas, with the loss of about 100 to 140 lives.[20] |
22 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kelloha | The 396-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in Lake Huron.[21] |
23 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Adirondack | American Civil War: The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked without loss of life on a reef off the northeast point of Man-O-War Cay in the Little Bahamas, about one nautical mile (1.8 km) northeast of Little Bahama Bank. Her wreck was burned by Bahamanian wreckers.[8][22] |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Henry Andrew | During a storm in the North Atlantic Ocean, the armed screw steamer was driven ashore on the coast of Virginia 15 miles (24 km) south of Cape Henry and wrecked without loss of life. She was not salvaged.[23] | |
USS Isaac N. Seymour | American Civil War, Union blockade: The paddle steamer ran aground and sank in the Neuse River in North Carolina. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[24] |
26 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flying Mist | The ship arrived in Bluff, New Zealand from Glasgow, carrying twenty passengers and several hundred sheep on 25 August. She was poorly anchored, and during the night after her arrival she struck a rock and was holed. The crew of the New Zealand steamer Aldinga helped rescue passengers, crew, and luggage, along with much of the livestock, but over 100 sheep drowned as the ship sank.[25] | |
Yorktown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer sprang a leak and foundered in the Gulf of Mexico off Ship Island, Mississippi, after leaving Mobile, Alabama, in an attempt to run the Union blockade and carry a cargo of cotton to Havana, Cuba. Her 26 survivors in two lifeboats were rescued 72 nautical miles (133 km) southeast of Ship Island by the schooner Annie Clapp (flag unknown).[8][26] |
27 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Patriot | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner – holed, stripped, her masts cut down, and her cargo missing – was found aground near Mosquito Inlet, Florida, by the screw steamer USS South Carolina ( |
30 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emma | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 460-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by her crew after running aground on the southeast side of Jones Island on the coast of Georgia off Cunningham Point.[28] |
31 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Venango | American Civil War: The 120-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank at the Scuffletown Bar in Louisiana She later was reloated.[29] | |
W. B. Terry | American Civil War: Captured by Confederate States Army troops, the 175-ton sternwheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of coal, ran aground at Duck River Shoals on the Tennessee River in Tennessee. The Confederates stripped and burned her.[8][30] | |
Unidentified sloop | American Civil War: The sloop was burned on the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia, by the armed tug USS Anacostia ( |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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A. B. (or A. Bee) | American Civil War, Union blockade: Aground at the entrance to the Nueces River in Corpus Christi Bay at Corpus Christi, Texas, the steamer was burned to the waterline by Confederate forces on either 15 or 17 August to prevent her capture by the bark USS Arthur ( | |
Acacia | American Civil War: The troop transport was sunk.[32] | |
B. F. Bruce | The 168-ton screw steamer burned at Port Stanley, Ontario.[33] | |
New Ulm Belle | The 50-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Minnesota River in Minnesota.[34] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 122.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Penobscot I (ScGbt)
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 134-135.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 193.
- ↑ Gaines p. 25.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 104.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Oneida II (Screw Sloop of War)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Elma
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 168.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 192.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 167.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Breaker
- ↑ Gaines, p. 68.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 190.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 74.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 162.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
- ↑ Gaines, p 91.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 56.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 18.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 182.
- ↑ usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1862
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 78–79.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 53.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 43.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 47.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 75.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 164.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 165.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Acacia
- ↑ Gaines, p. 55.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 81.
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.
Ship events in 1862 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Ship commissionings: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Shipwrecks: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
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