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.

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Lizzie	United Kingdom	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 ( United States Navy) off New Inlet, North Carolina.[1] [2]

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Commodore Perry	United States	The 193-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Ohio River at the wharves at Louisville, Kentucky, killing three people.[3]

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified sloop	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was burned at Smithfield Creek in Virginia by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Delaware ( United States Navy).[4]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Annie B. Bourne	United States	The schooner struck a snag in the Sacramento River at Sutterville, California, and sank.[5]
CS Ram Arkansas	Confederate States Navy	Illustration of the Arkansas burning while under fire from USS Essex, Harper's Weekly, 5 September 1862. American Civil War, Battle of Baton Rouge: The ironclad warship became disabled and ran aground while maneuvering to engage the ironclad river gunboat USS Essex ( United States Navy) in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned ship, and she slipped off the river bank, drifted downstream, exploded, and sank at 30°29′14″N 91°12′5″W / 30.48722°N 91.20139°W / 30.48722; -91.20139 (CSS Arkansas).

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Whiteman (or Lewis Whitman)	United States	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 ( United States Navy).[6][7]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Elmea	Confederate States	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 ( United States Navy).[8][9][10]
Unidentified sloop	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt, the sloop was driven ashore in the Potomac River.[11]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Breaker	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the bark USS Arthur and schooner USS Corypheus (both  United States Navy), the pilot boat, a schooner, was run ashore and set on fire by her crew in Nueces Bay on the coast of Texas in the vicinity of Pass Cavallo. Union forces salvaged and repaired her and placed her in use as a tender.[12][13]
Hannah	Confederate States	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  United States Navy).[8][10]
Laurel Hill	United States	Drifting down the Mississippi River after slipping her moorings at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with rigging for the gunboat USS Kineo ( United States Navy) aboard, the wharf boat sprang leaks and sank.[14]

12-13 August

List of shipwrecks: 12-13 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
West Point	United States	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

List of shipwrecks: 14-15 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
USS Sumter	United States Navy	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

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Callie	United States	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	United States	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

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Swallow	United States	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

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Acacia Cottage	United States	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

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Kelloha	United States	The 396-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in Lake Huron.[21]

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
USS Adirondack	United States Navy	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

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
USS Henry Andrew	United States Navy	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	United States Navy	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

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Flying Mist	United States	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	Confederate States	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

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Patriot	United Kingdom	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 ( United States Navy). South Carolina destroyed her.[8][27]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Emma	United Kingdom	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

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Venango	United States	American Civil War: The 120-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank at the Scuffletown Bar in Louisiana She later was reloated.[29]
W. B. Terry	United States	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	United States	American Civil War: The sloop was burned on the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia, by the armed tug USS Anacostia ( United States Navy).[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1862

Ship	Country	Description
A. B. (or A. Bee)	Confederate States	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 ( United States Navy).[8][31]
Acacia	United States Army	American Civil War: The troop transport was sunk.[32]
B. F. Bruce	United States	The 168-ton screw steamer burned at Port Stanley, Ontario.[33]
New Ulm Belle	United States	The 50-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Minnesota River in Minnesota.[34]

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