List of shipwrecks in January 1863

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

January 1863
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29 30 31 Unknown date

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CS Neptune (or CSS Neptune Camp)  Confederate States Army American Civil War, Battle of Galveston: The armed cottonclad tug was sunk by United States Navy warships in Galveston Harbor off Galveston, Texas, when a shell passed through her hull. She suffered eight killed and 20 wounded, and three of the wounded later died of their injuries.[1]
USS Westfield  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Galveston: The armed sidewheel paddle steamer, serving as flagship of the naval squadron blockading Galveston, Texas, ran aground on a sandbar in Galveston Harbor off Galveston, while in action with the gunboat CS Bayou City and the armed tugboat CS Neptune (both  Confederate States Army). She was blown up to prevent her capture by Confederate forces, killing the fleet commander, Commander William B. Renshaw, and several members of her crew when the explosives detonated sooner than they expected.[2]

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Time and Truth United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria (Australia) The barque carrying 2,600 sheep, was approaching Bluff, New Zealand from Melbourne when a heavy gale sprang up. The captain attempted to take the ship into Bluff Harbour, but it was struck by a swell and pushed into rocks off Stirling Point. The steamer Aphrasis succeeding in rescuing the crew and about 500 sheep before the Time and Truth went under. While returning to Bluff, the Aphrasis herself was involved in a collision with the steamer Prince Alfred and was heavily damaged.[3]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Jacob Musselman  United States American Civil War: The 144-ton sternwheel transport was captured by troops of the Arkansas Cavalry Company ( Confederate States Army) on the Mississippi River opposite Memphis, Tennessee. The Confederates took her 15 miles (24 km) upstream to Bradley's Landing, Arkansas, where they removed her cargo and burned her.[4][5]
Unidentified flatboat Unknown American Civil War: The flatboat was burned by Confederate States Army forces at Bradley's Landing, Arkansas.[5]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Little Magruder  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was destroyed on the Pamunkey River at White House, Virginia, by an expedition consisting of the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the gunboat USS Commodore Perry (both  United States Navy), the tug May Queen ( United States Army), and troops of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment, and 115th New York Infantry Regiment (all  Union Army).[6]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War: A ferryboat, two sloops, a large scow, two barges, and four pontoon boats were destroyed on the Pamunkey River at White House, Virginia, by an expedition consisting of the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the gunboat USS Commodore Perry (both  United States Navy), the tug May Queen ( United States Army), and troops of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment, and 115th New York Infantry Regiment (all  Union Army).[7]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
F. W. Bailey Unknown Becalmed and dragging her anchor, the 711-ton full-rigged ship drifted onto rocks on the coast of California 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Point Lobos and was wrecked with the loss of 10 lives.[8]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Sparkling Sea  United States American Civil War: Carrying 70 men of the 25th Battery, New York Light Artillery, and 106 horses, the transport ran aground without loss of life off the coast of Florida on Ajax Reef, about 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) from Carysfort Reef Light. The gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy) removed the horses and some stores. By 18 January, Sparkling Sea was a total wreck.[9]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Grampus No. 2  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of coal and towing five coal barges, the 352-ton armed paddle steamer was captured on the Mississippi River just off the wharf at Memphis, Tennessee, by troops of the Arkansas Cavalry Company ( Confederate States Army). The Confederates ran her five miles upriver to Mound City, Arkansas, with the barges, where they set her on fire and cast her adrift on the Mississippi, and she and the barges sank.[4][10]
USS Hatteras  United States Navy
Nineteenth-century illustration of USS Hatteras (right) sinking under fire from CSS Alabama (left).
American Civil War, Action off Galveston Light: The gunboat, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was sunk in combat with the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy) in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas, with the loss of two lives. Alabama took her 118 survivors prisoner.[11]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Charter  United States American Civil War: The 114-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[12]
Trio  United States American Civil War: Carrying 400 wounded Union Army troops and a cargo of cotton, the 150-ton sternwheel hospital steamer was captured and burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[13]
W. H. Slidell  United States American Civil War: The armed tinclad steamer was captured and burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[14]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
USS Columbia  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed screw steamer ran aground at Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina. After a gale struck on 15 January, the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy) rescued 30 men from the wreck during the storm on 15–16 January before Confederate artillery drove her off. Confederate forces captured the wreck on 17 January and burned it.[4][15]
Parthonia  United States American Civil War: The 261-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate States Army troops on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. They had captured her on the river the previous day at the head of Harpeth Shoals.[13]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS J. A. Cotton  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel partial ironclad gunboat was scuttled and burned by her crew in Bayou Teche off Brashear City, Louisiana, to serve as a blockship and to prevent her capture by Union forces after she was badly damaged in combat with United States Navy gunboats.[16][17]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Tropic  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 323-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, was destroyed by an accidental fire while attempting to run the Union blockade at Charleston, South Carolina. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Quaker City ( United States Navy).[4][18][19]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Estelle  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of honey and molasses from Santa Cruz to Boston, Massachusetts, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico near Cuba near 23°34′N 83°50′W / 23.567°N 83.833°W / 23.567; -83.833 (Estelle) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[4][20][21]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Liberty  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: After breaking loose from her moorings at Cornfield Harbor, Maryland, and drifting into the Coan River in Virginia, the barge was captured and burned in the Coan River by Confederates aboard the captured barge J. C. Davis ( United States).[6]
Unidentified schooner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner heavily laden with supplies, was forced aground at New Topsail Inlet or Stump Inlet (sources disagree) on the coast of North Carolina by the armed screw steamer USS Daylight ( United States Navy). She then was wrecked by Union gunfire, taking 20 to 25 shell hits.[4][22]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Corris Ann  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Matanzas, Cuba, the brig was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea near Cárdenas, Cuba, between Cay Piedras and Cay Mono by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy). While burning, she drifted ashore inside the harbor at Cárdenas.[4][20][21]
J. C. Davis  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: After breaking loose from her moorings at Cornfield Harbor, Maryland, and drifting into the Coan River in Virginia, where she was captured by Confederate forces, the barge was run aground and burned in the Coan River by the armed schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy).[23]
Windward  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of molasses from Matanzas, Cuba, to Portland, Maine, was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea off the east coast of Cuba by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[4][20][24]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Morning Light  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed sloop was set afire by her crew to prevent her capture by the approaching gunboats USS Cayuga and USS New London (both  United States Navy) and sank in the Gulf of Mexico just off Sabine Pass on the coast of Texas. Previously USS Morning Light ( United States Navy), she had been captured off Sabine Pass on 21 January by the cottonclad steamers CSS Josiah Bell and CSS Uncle Ben (both  Confederate States Navy).[4][25]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Golden Rule  United States American Civil War: The 255-ton bark, carrying a cargo of food and medicine consigned to the Panama Railway Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and a full set of sails and spars for the brig USS Bainbridge ( United States Navy), was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea near Haiti by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[4][26]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Chastelain
(or Chastelaine)		  United States American Civil War: The 293-ton brig, on a voyage in ballast from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea south of Hispaniola about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south of Alto Velo Island at 17°19′50″N 72°21′00″W / 17.33056°N 72.35000°W / 17.33056; -72.35000 (Chastelain) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[4][21][26]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Aeolus  United States The brig was wrecked on the coast of California 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the Humboldt Bay Bar.[27]
Elizabeth  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of salt, was captured and burned at the mouth of Jupiter Inlet on the coast of Florida by the gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy).[4][28]
Mary Ann Unknown The schooner-rigged steamer was wrecked on the coast of California 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the Humboldt Bay Bar. She was refloated on 29 June.[29]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1863
ShipCountryDescription
George Sand German Confederation Carrying US$13,000,000 in gold and silver bars and specie from California, the barque foundered in 360 feet (110 meters) of water on the Praetus Shoals in the South China Sea 180 nautical miles (333 km) southwest of Hong Kong.[30][31]
USS Isaac Smith  United States Navy American Civil War: The screw steamer ran aground under fire from Confederate States Army troops on the Stono River above Legareville, South Carolina, and was captured by the Confederates.[4]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Heinrich Sorensen  Russia The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her twelve crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[32]
Nina  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 338-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean between Nassau in the Bahamas and Charleston, South Carolina, in late January.[33]
Noonday  United States The 2,000-ton clipper sank in 240 feet (73 meters) of water within an hour of striking Fanny Rock – subsequently renamed Noonday Rock – in the Farallon Islands off the coast of California on 1 or 2 January. The pilot boat Relief ( United States) rescued her crew.[29]
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America The sloop was wrecked in King's Creek in Virginia.[7]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 171.
  2. ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
  3. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 83–84.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1863
  5. 1 2 Gaines, p. 97.
  6. 1 2 Gaines, p. 184.
  7. 1 2 Gaines, p. 193.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 27.
  9. ↑ Gaines, pp. 44-45.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
  11. ↑ Gaines, pp. 168-169.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
  13. 1 2 Gaines, p. 162.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 164.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p.116
  16. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: J. A. Cotton
  17. ↑ Gaines, p. 67.
  18. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Huntress
  19. ↑ Gaines, p. 156.
  20. 1 2 3 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Florida. 1862-1863. Captain John Newland Maffitt. CSS Florida. 1864. Captain Charles M. Morris"
  21. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 33.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 132.
  23. ↑ Gaines, p. 183.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 34.
  25. ↑ Gaines, pp. 170-171.
  26. 1 2 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 24.
  28. ↑ Gaines, p. 39.
  29. 1 2 Gaines, p. 29.
  30. ↑ wrecksite.eu SV George Sand (+1863)
  31. ↑ Gaines, p. 35.
  32. ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  33. ↑ Gaines, p. 15.

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