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
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

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Ed Air  United States The 35-ton screw steamer was stranded at Big Bone, Kentucky.[1]
Progress  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Arkansas River in Arkansas with the loss of 20 lives.[2]

3 December

List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Indian River  United States The 250-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground at the mouth of the Indian River on the coast of Florida.[3]

5 December

List of shipwrecks: 5 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Neptune  United States The 1,244-ton screw steamer was stranded in fog off Long Island, New York.[4]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Sioux City  United States The 379-ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri. She later was refloated.[5]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Constitution  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Ella  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 15 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Peerless  United States The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer capsized and burned after striking the wreck of the gunboat USS Black Hawk ( United States Navy) in the Ohio River 3 miles (5 km) above Cairo, Illinois.[9]

16 December

List of shipwrecks: 16 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Calypso  United States The 245-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[10]
Geneva  United States The 127-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[11]
Highlander  United States The 241-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank after striking ice in the Tennessee River at Johnsonville, Tennessee.[12]
Metropolitan  United States The 313-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[13]
USS New Ironsides  United States Navy The broadside ironclad was destroyed by fire while laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Omaha  United States The 307-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[14]
Rosalie  United States The 158-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice in the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[15]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Roanoke  United States The 266-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Mississippi River near Commerce, Missouri.[15]

18 December

List of shipwrecks: 18 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Israel R. Snow (or Israel L. Snow)  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Ellen Forrest  United States The schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[17]
Mary E. Thompson  United States Carrying a cargo of cotton, hides, and wool, the brig was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[17]

23 December

List of shipwrecks: 23 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Idaho  United States The 522-ton screw steamer was stranded at Barnegat, New Jersey.[18]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Vision United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The cutter went ashore on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and was wrecked.[19]

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Newton  United States The 699-ton full-rigged ship was lost off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.[20]

28 December

List of shipwrecks: 28 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Ida May  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Commonwealth  United States The 1,732-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Groton, Connecticut, with the loss of one life.[22]
Juliet  United Kingdom 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 ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution), and 280 casks of rum were salvaged later.[23]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Huntress  United States The 138-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank on the Red River of the South near Alexandria, Louisiana.[21]
Union  United States The 116-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Detroit, Michigan.[24]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Goldena (or Goldina)  United States 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

List of shipwrecks: unknown date 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Carioca  France 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  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee. She later was refloated.[27]
Rodolph  United States The 249-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River in Arkansas 15 miles below Little Rock.[2]
Ruby  United States The 78-ton sidewheel ferry foundered in the Mississippi River.[15]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
  2. 1 2 Gaines, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Gaines, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 9.
  8. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 123–124.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 92.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 95.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 160.
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 99.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 101.
  15. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 102.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 48.
  17. 1 2 Gaines, p. 140.
  18. ↑ Gaines, p. 108.
  19. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 117.
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 80.
  21. 1 2 Gaines, p. 66.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 35.
  23. ↑ Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 81.
  25. ↑ Gaines, p. 10.
  26. ↑ "From The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine, 1868".
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 93.

Bibliography


Ship events in 1865
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