List of shipwrecks in December 1865
The list of shipwrecks in December 1865 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1865.
December 1865 | |||||||
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 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ed Air | The 35-ton screw steamer was stranded at Big Bone, Kentucky.[1] | |
Progress | The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Arkansas River in Arkansas with the loss of 20 lives.[2] |
3 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Indian River | The 250-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground at the mouth of the Indian River on the coast of Florida.[3] |
5 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Neptune | The 1,244-ton screw steamer was stranded in fog off Long Island, New York.[4] |
6 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sioux City | The 379-ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. She later was refloated.[5] |
12 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Constitution | The 944-ton screw steamer was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina at Capre Lookout with the loss of 40 lives.[6] |
13 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ella | The 173-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas.[7] | |
Maid of the Yarra | unknown | The steamer was wrecked just inside the mouth of New Zealand's Hokitika River. Her keel struck the bottom of the river's channel and she became unresponsive. A heavy sea was running, and breached over her. She became beached and it was found that she had been badly holed. All crew and passengers survived.[8] |
15 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Peerless | The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer capsized and burned after striking the wreck of the gunboat USS Black Hawk ( |
16 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Calypso | The 245-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[10] | |
Geneva | The 127-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[11] | |
Highlander | The 241-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank after striking ice in the Tennessee River at Johnsonville, Tennessee.[12] | |
Metropolitan | The 313-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[13] | |
USS New Ironsides | The broadside ironclad was destroyed by fire while laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | |
Omaha | The 307-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[14] | |
Rosalie | The 158-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[15] |
17 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Roanoke | The 266-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Mississippi River near Commerce, Missouri.[15] |
18 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Israel R. Snow (or Israel L. Snow) | The 95-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of 800 bushels of lime and 100 bushels of potatoes from Rockland, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia, was beached on Tybee Island, Georgia, leaking and with her cargo on fire.[16] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellen Forrest | The schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[17] | |
Mary E. Thompson | Carrying a cargo of cotton, hides, and wool, the brig was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[17] |
23 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Idaho | The 522-ton screw steamer was stranded at Barnegat, New Jersey.[18] |
24 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Vision | The cutter went ashore on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and was wrecked.[19] |
25 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Newton | The 699-ton full-rigged ship was lost off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.[20] |
28 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ida May | The 220-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on the Red River of the South in Louisiana 100 miles (161 km) below Shreveport.[21] |
29 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Commonwealth | The 1,732-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Groton, Connecticut, with the loss of one life.[22] | |
Juliet | The barque, carrying sugar and 400 casks of rum from Demerara, South America, to London, was making for Padstow Harbour in Cornwall, England, and drifted ashore. The crew were saved by the Padstow Lifeboat ( |
30 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Huntress | The 138-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank on the Red River of the South near Alexandria, Louisiana.[21] | |
Union | The 116-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Detroit, Michigan.[24] |
31 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Goldena (or Goldina) | The sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded at the White River Cutoff between the Arkansas River and the White River in Arkansas and was abandoned.[25] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Carioca | The vessel struck the rocks under Hermitage Rock Battery on Alderney in the Channel Islands in late December. Gunner James Moore of the Royal Artillery on Alderney rescued 17 men of her crew; he later was awarded a Royal National Lifeboat Institution Silver Medal.[26] | |
Darling | The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee. She later was refloated.[27] | |
Rodolph | The 249-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River in Arkansas 15 miles below Little Rock.[2] | |
Ruby | The 78-ton sidewheel ferry foundered in the Mississippi River.[15] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 11.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 41.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 117.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 9.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 123–124.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 92.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 95.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 160.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 99.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 101.
- 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 102.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 48.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 140.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 108.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 117.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 80.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 66.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 35.
- ↑ Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 81.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 10.
- ↑ "From The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine, 1868".
- ↑ Gaines, p. 93.
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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Ship decommissionings: | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 |
Shipwrecks: | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 |
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