List of shipwrecks in February 1861
The list of shipwrecks in February 1861 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during February 1861.
February 1861 | ||||||
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22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
Unknown date |
3 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Reub White | The sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in the Harvey Canal in Louisiana.[1] |
9 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Victory | The 670-ton clipper was wrecked on the coast of Virginia near Cape Henry.[2] |
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charmer | The 667-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Lauderdale, Louisiana, with the loss of five lives.[3] |
11 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aunt Letty | The 303-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Beram Island.[4] | |
Quapaw | The 245-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas.[5] |
12 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cedar Rapids | The 131-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Arkansas River at Douglas Landing, Arkansas.[6] |
15 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ashland | The 274-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned.[4] |
18 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arthemise | The brig collided with Mentor ( | |
Hero | The Bideford polacca brigantine slipped her moorings in the harbor at Penzance, England, during south-southwesterly hurricane-force winds. Four of her crew and two others drowned.[8] | |
Kate Sarchet | The 184-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded.[9] | |
Mentor | The ship parted her cables in the Isles of Scilly and collided with the brig Arthemise ( | |
Pauline | Carrying railway iron from Ardrossan, Scotland, to Rouen, France, the schooner was driven onto Crow Bar in the Isles of Scilly.[7] |
19 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gipsy | The 43-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in Black Bayou in Louisiana.[10] |
20 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Enchantress | The store ship was wrecked on a reef at Mayotte in the Mozambique Channel. |
21 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Carrier | The 345-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Island Number 25. She was raised, repaired, and returned to service.[11] | |
Grecian | Unknown | In ballast, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[12] |
28 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Corrine | The 83-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed by an explosion at McDonoghville in the Algiers section of New Orleans, Louisiana, with the loss of 15 lives.[3] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fort Wayne | The 321-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Island No. 16. She later was refloated.[13] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 73.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 189.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 62.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 196.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 11.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 9.
- 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
- ↑ Carter, C (1998). The Port of Penzance. Lydney: Black Dwarf Publications. ISBN 0-9533028-0-6.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 197.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 65.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 92, 106.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
Ship events in 1861 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
Ship commissionings: | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
Shipwrecks: | 1856 | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 |
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