The list of shipwrecks in August 1863 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1863.
11 August
List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Sea Gull |
New Zealand |
The schooner was struck by lightning off the coast of Taranaki, destroying the mainmast and starting a fire. To save the lives of those on board, the skipper deliberately beached the ship near the mouth of the Henui River (Te Henui Stream, New Plymouth).[4] |
18 August
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Hebe |
United Kingdom |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer USS Niphon and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Shokokon (both United States Navy), the screw steamer, carrying a cargo of coffee, clothing, medicine, and provisions, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina at Federal Point, north of Fort Fisher, and was abandoned by her crew. According to one source, the Shokokon then riddled her with gunfire, igniting a fire that burned her to the waterline. According to another source, six U.S. Navy warships shelled Hebe′s wreck on 20 August, destroying her machinery and completing her destruction.[6][7] |
CSS Oconee |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The gunboat foundered in bad weather in the North Atlantic Ocean south of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, during a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to England with a cargo of cotton. Her crew abandoned ship safely, but a Union ship captured 15 of them off the coast of Florida on 20 August.[8] |
21 August
List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Anglo Saxon |
United States |
American Civil War: The 868-ton clipper, bound from Liverpool, England, to New York City with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean near Brest, France, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[12][6][13] |
USS Bainbridge |
United States Navy |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The brig capsized and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Only two members of her crew survived the sinking to escape in a boat, but one of them became crazed, jumped overboard, and drowned. South Boston (flag unknown) rescued the only surviving crewman two days later.[14] |
Champion |
United States |
American Civil War: The 676-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, with the loss of one life.[15] |
25 August
List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Coquette |
United States |
American Civil War: The schooner, carrying a cargo of anchor and chain, was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, by the sidewheel paddle tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy), which was under the control of a Confederate States Navy crew that had captured her on 23 August. After stripping Coquette, the Confederates burned her at Port Royal, Virginia.[6] |
Golden Rod |
United States |
American Civil War: During a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, to Maine with a cargo of coal, the schooner, was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia and burned at Urbanna, Virginia, by the sidewheel paddle tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy), which was under the control of a Confederate States Navy crew that had captured her on 23 August.[6]<re name=gainesp181>Gaines, p. 181.</ref> |
CSS Oconee |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The gunboat foundered in bad weather in the Atlantic Ocean during a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to England with a cargo of cotton. Her crew abandoned ship safely, but Union forces captured 15 of them on 20 August. |
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
USS Reliance |
United States Navy |
American Civil War: Captured by a Confederate States Navy crew on 23 August, the armed screw steamer was destroyed by Confederate forces at Port Royal, Virginia, either on 25 August or between 28 and 31 August to prevent her recapture by cavalry forces under Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick ( United States Army).[6][21] |
USS Satellite |
United States Navy |
American Civil War: Captured by a Confederate States Navy crew on 23 August, the armed sidewheel tug was destroyed by Confederate forces at Port Royal, Virginia, either on 25 August or between 28 and 31 August to prevent her recapture by cavalry forces under Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick ( United States Army).[6][22] The armed steamer USS Commodore Read ( United States Navy) detonated 50 pounds (22.7 kg) of gunpowder in her boiler on 31 May 1864 to prevent her salvage by the Confederates.[22] |
Sharp |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The steamer was burned and sunk by the Confederates in the Sunflower River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[23] |
Sumter |
Confederate States Army |
American Civil War: The 212-ton steamer, a transport carrying the 20th South Carolina Regiment, the 23rd South Carolina Regiment, and Captain Matthew's Artillery Company (all Confederate States Army), was shelled by Confederate artillery in at Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg on Sullivan's Island that mistook her for a United States Navy monitor in fog and heavy weather while she was entering Charleston Harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, without showing a recognition light on 30 or 31 August. She sank in two hours with the loss of 40 killed, one wounded, and eight missing. More than 600 survivors were rescued by barges and Confederate States Navy gunboats.[24] |
Thistle |
New Zealand |
The cutter was wrecked on the Kawhia Bar, at the mouth of New Zealand's Kawhia Harbour. All on board were lost.[4] |
Two Brothers |
United States |
American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of anchors and anchor chains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 49-ton schooner was captured by a Confederate States Navy crew aboard the captured armed tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy) at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia on the night of 24–25 August, then was stripped and burned at Port Royal, Virginia, on either 25 or 31 August.[6][25] |
Unidentifed schooner |
United States |
American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner was sunk by Confederate guerrillas off Urbanna, Virginia.[26] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 102.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 145.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
- 1 2 3 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 92.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 117.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863
- ↑ Gaines, p. 121.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 43.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 50.
- ↑ Silverstone, Paul H., Civil War Navies, 1855-1883, New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2006,
ISBN 0-415-97870-X, p. 180.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 56.
- ↑ 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"
- ↑ Gaines, p. 36.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 114.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 92.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 120.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 132.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 165.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 57.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 177.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 187.
- 1 2 Gaines, pp. 187-188.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Sharp
- ↑ Gaines, p. 156.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 189.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 192.
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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1869 |
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