The list of shipwrecks in December 1864 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1864.
7 December
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1864
Ship | Country | Description |
USS Narcissus |
United States Navy |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The screw steamer struck a Confederate mine in Mobile Bay off Mobile, Alabama, during a heavy storm and sank without loss of life. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service. |
Stormy Petrel |
United Kingdom |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Trying to a run the Union blockade and reach Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo that included arms and ammunition, the 220-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina off New Inlet and Smith Island a mile (1.6 km) below Fort Fisher by the gunboat USS Kansas ( United States Navy). Under fire by gunboats of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron ( United States Navy), she was holed by the fluke of a submerged anchor. She finally was destroyed by a gale a few days later.[10][7] |
9 December
List of shipwrecks: 9 December 1864
Ship | Country | Description |
USS Bazely |
United States Navy |
Harper's Weekly illustration from 21 January 1865 of USS Bazely striking the mine. American Civil War: The tug sank instantly with the loss of two lives after striking a Confederate mine in the Roanoke River near Jamesville, North Carolina, while coming to the aid of the gunboat USS Otsego ( United States Navy). Her wreck was destroyed on 25 December to prevent its capture by Confederate forces.[7][12] |
Ben South |
United States |
American Civil War: The 176-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade ( Confederate States Army).[13] |
Echo |
United States |
American Civil War: The 100-ton steam towboat was burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade ( Confederate States Army).[14] |
USS Otsego |
United States Navy |
American Civil War: The gunboat sank after striking two Confederate mines in the Roanoke River near Jamesville, North Carolina. Her wreck was blown up on 9 or 25 December (sources disagree) to prevent its capture by Confederate forces.[7][15] |
Robert B. Howlett |
United States |
The 120- or 246-ton schooner was wrecked on Charleston Bar or North Bar off the coast of South Carolina during a hurricane.[16] |
Thomas E. Tutt |
United States |
American Civil War: Carrying Union Army troops and a cargo of oats, the 351-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade ( Confederate States Army).[17] |
Two unidentified barges |
United States |
American Civil War: The barges were captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade ( Confederate States Army).[18] |
Unidentified steamer |
United States |
American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River at Cumberland City, Tennessee, by troops of Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon′s brigade ( Confederate States Army).[19] |
21 December
List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1864
Ship | Country | Description |
CSS Firefly |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The armed tender, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was burned at Savannah, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[25] |
CSS Georgia |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The ironclad warship, serving as a floating battery, was scuttled at Savannah, Georgia, at 32°5′5″N 81°2′9″W / 32.08472°N 81.03583°W / 32.08472; -81.03583 (CSS Georgia (battery)) to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
CSS Isondiga |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The gunboat was destroyed at Savannah, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
CSS Milledgeville |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad was burned to the waterline and scuttled at Savannah, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[26] |
CSS Savannah |
Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: The casemate ironclad was burned at Savannah, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
Swan |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 316-ton screw steamer was burned and sunk at Savannah, Georgia, to prevent her capture by Union forces. She was raised in July 1865, refitted, and returned to service.[27] |
30 December
List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1864
Ship | Country | Description |
USS Annie |
United States Navy |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner departed Key West, Florida, to resume blockade duties in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida's west coast off Charlotte Harbor, but was not heard from again. On 5 February 1865, the screw steamer USS Hendrick Hudson ( United States Navy) found her wreck submerged in 36 feet (11 meters) of water south of Cape Romano, Florida, apparently the victim of an explosion. No sign of her crew was found.[8] |
USS Rattler |
United States Navy |
American Civil War: During a heavy gale, the paddle steamer parted her mooring cables on the Mississippi River near Grand Gulf, Mississippi, ran ashore, struck a snag and sank. She was stripped and abandoned, and Confederate forces later burned her wreck.[7] |
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1864
Ship | Country | Description |
Caroline Reed |
Unknown |
The vessel was lost in the Pacific Ocean off the United States West Coast somewhere between Bellingham, Washington Territory, and San Francisco, California.[36] |
Continental |
United States |
The sidewheel paddle steamer struck the wreck of the 536-ton sidewheel paddle steamer James Montgomery ( United States) and sank in the Mississippi River at Devil Island above Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She later was refloated.[37] |
Dashaway |
Unknown |
The schooner was stranded on the northern coast of California at Big Flat, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Cape Mendocino. By the time she was found on 3 January 1865, 14 of those on board had died.[38] |
George Washington |
Unknown |
The vessel was lost in the Pacific Ocean off the northern coast of California.[2] |
J. M. Chapman |
United States |
The schooner was lost in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from Shoalwater Bay in Queensland, Australia, and San Francisco, California.[39] |
Kate L. Bruce |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The armed steamer was sunk as a blockship in the Chattahoochee River.[40] |
USS Monarch |
United States Army |
The decommissioned sidewheel ram was sunk by ice while laid up on the Mississippi River below St. Louis, Missouri. She was refloated and was scrapped in July 1865.[41] |
North America |
United States |
American Civil War: During a voyage under charter to the United States Department of War, carrying 225 sick and wounded Union Army soldiers from New Orleans, Louisiana, to New York City, the 1,061-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Georgia at 31°10′N 78°40′W / 31.167°N 78.667°W / 31.167; -78.667 (North America) on 22 or 24 December with the loss of 197 lives.[34] |
Swordfish |
United States |
The brig was lost on the Toddy Rocks off Hull, Massachusetts.[42] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 27.
- 1 2 3 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 Project Muse: Appendix. List of Prizes Taken by the CSS Shenandoah. Kept by Lt. William C. Whittle, Jr.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 118.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 14.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1864
- 1 2 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-April 1865
- ↑ Gaines, p. 192.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 129.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 114.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 158, 160.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 125.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 154.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 163.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 164.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 165.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Ida
- ↑ Gaines, p. 48.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 186.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 50.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 193.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Firefly
- ↑ Gaines, p. 48-49.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 51
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 107.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Ship Histories: Confederate Ships: Arctic
- ↑ Gaines, p. 112.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 157.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 173.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 15.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 75.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 26.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 93.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 26-27.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 28.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Kate L. Bruce
- ↑ Gaines, p. 100.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 80.
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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