List of shipwrecks in December 1863

The list of shipwrecks in December 1863 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1863.

December 1863
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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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 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Colonna  United States The 102-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Newburgh, Indiana.[1]
Tecumseh  United States American Civil War: The 418-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.[2]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Ceres  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, a steamer, was discovered aground and afire at the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina by the screw steamers USS Aries and USS Violet (both  United States Navy). She floated free during the night of 6–7 December, the flames were extinguished, and she was captured by Violet.[3]
Fanny McBurney (or Fanny McBurnie)  United States The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Island No. 34 in the Mississippi River.[4]
Isaac Newton  United States The 1,332-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Hudson River off Fort Washington in New York City, killing nine people.[5]
USS Weehawken  United States Navy
Illustrations depicting the sinking of USS Weehawken
.American Civil War: The monitor foundered at anchor in Charleston Harbor off Morris Island, South Carolina, at 32°42′57″N 79°53′25″W / 32.7157°N 79.8903°W / 32.7157; -79.8903 (USS Weehawken (1862)) during a gale with the loss of 31 lives.[6]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Antoinette  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade and reach Fernandina, Florida, the schooner was forced aground on Cumberland Island on the coast of Georgia by the bark USS Braziliera ( United States Navy).[7]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Hooghly  United Kingdom The barque foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers. Her crew were rescued by the steamer Ida ( United Kingdom).[8]
Josephine Truxillo  United States American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb in Louisiana.[3][9]
Stephany (or Stepheny)  United States American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb in Louisiana.[3][2]

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
General Beauregard  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Bound for England with a cargo of cotton, turpentine, and possibly gold, the 824-ton screw steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina at Carolina Beach and was burned by the Confederates to prevent her capture by Union forces.[10]
Helena  United States American Civil War: The 33-ton barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca in Louisiana.[3][11]
Sarah Bladen  United States American Civil War: The 43-ton schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca in Louisiana.[3][12]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Alice Provost  United States The 476-ton bark was wrecked on the coast of South Carolina while trying to enter port at Port Royal. The receiving ship USS Vermont ( United States Navy) rescued her crew.[13]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
G. O. Bigelow  United Kingdom American Civil War: Discovered aground and without her cargo at the entrance to Bear Inlet on the coast of North Carolina by the armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon and the armed supply ship USS New Berne (both  United States Navy), the 90-ton schooner was scuttled and burned by Confederate forces to prevent her capture.[10]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Antonica  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade by passing inshore of the armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Connecticut and USS State of Georgia and the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham (all  United States Navy) and reach Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo of clothing, cotton, dry goods, general provisions, and liquor and $1,200 in cash, the 563-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the western side of Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear, North Carolina. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats, and boat crews from Governor Buckingham captured 42 of her crew. Union forces could not refloat her, and she was abandoned. She broke up a few days later, becoming a total loss.[3][14]
Powerful  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel paddle steamer was abandoned by her crew and was captured at the mouth of the Suwannee River on the coast of Florida by the schooner USS Fox ( United States Navy). Fox′s crew destroyed her when they could not stop a serious leak aboard her.[3][15]
Quincy  United States The 396-ton screw steamer foundered at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of 16 lives.[16]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Lively  Royal Navy The gunboat was wrecked on Schiermonnikoog in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands.[17]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Texan Star  United Kingdom American Civil War: The 799-ton bark, carrying a cargo of rice and bound for Singapore, was captured and burned in the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[18][3][19]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Highlander  United States American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore to British Burma, the 1,049- or 1,050-ton (sources disagree) clipper was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[18][20][3]
Sonora  United States American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore to British Burma, the 707-ton full-rigged ship was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[18][20][3]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Caroline Gertrude  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton to Havana, Cuba, ran aground on a bar just inside the mouth of the Ocklockonee River on the coast of Florida and was boarded and burned by boat crews from the screw steamer USS Stars and Stripes ( United States Navy).[21][3]
Unidentified vessel  Confederate States of America Carryiing a cargo of Mexican blankets, salt, and sundries, the vessel was driven ashore on the coast of Texas 5 miles (8 km) from the mouth of the San Bernard River during a storm.[22]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Dashaway Unknown The schooner may have been stranded on the coast of California on this date. If so, she was refloated and returned to service.[23]
Montana  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked on the reef off the north shore of Bermuda, becoming a total loss. Her crew and most of her cargo were saved.[8]
Nola  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, with a cargo of dry goods, the 607-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was driven onto a reef and wrecked in the Western Blue Cut area off Ireland Island, 7 nautical miles (13 km) northwest of Bermuda.[24]
Success United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 55-ton schooner was wrecked in Palliser Bay during a gale, with the loss of two of the five crew. She was en route from Lyttelton to Auckland.[25]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS John F. Carr  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 200-ton sidewheel cottonclad gunboat was driven ashore on the Matagorda Peninsula on the coast of Texas by a severe gale and was burned to prevent her capture by Union forces on 30 or 31 December. Sources differ on her fate, claiming that the fire destroyed her or that Union forces pulled her onto a bank at Lynchburg, Texas, to prevent her from sinking in deep water and that she apparently was recaptured by the Confederates and returned to Confederate States Navy service.[3][26]
Rosalie (or Rosa Lee)  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner burned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.[27]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
  2. 1 2 Gaines, p. 74.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863
  4. ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
  6. ↑ Gaines, pp. 156-157.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 46.
  8. 1 2 "The Bombay Mail". The Standard (12287). London. 28 December 1863. p. 6.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 68.
  10. 1 2 Gaines, p. 120.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 66.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 73.
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 141.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 113.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 44.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 127.
  17. ↑ thisismast.org Royal Navy Loss List Complete Database p. 86.
  18. 1 2 3 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  19. ↑ Gaines, pp. 35-36.
  20. 1 2 Gaines, p. 35.
  21. ↑ Gaines, p. 39.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 173.
  23. ↑ Gaines, pp. 26-27.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 22.
  25. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 96.
  26. ↑ Gaines, p. 169.
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 171.

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