List of shipwrecks in July 1861

The list of shipwrecks in July 1861 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1861.

July 1861
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 July

List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Cleopatra Unknown Carrying a cargo of lumber from Puget Sound in Washington Territory to San Francisco, California, the bark burned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.[1]

2 July

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Cataline  United States The 391-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Fort Monroe, Virginia.[2]

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Golden Rocket  United States American Civil War: The 607- or 690-ton bark was on a voyage from Havana to Cienfuegos, Cuba, when the merchant raider CSS Sumter ( Confederate States Navy) captured her in the Caribbean Sea off Cape Corrientes, Cuba, and burned her 10 to 12 nautical miles (18.5 to 22.2 km) west-southwest of Isla de Pinos.[3][4][5]
Victory  United Kingdom
Flywheel from the wreck of Victory in the surf at low tide on Victory Beach, 11 September 2009.
Soon after departing Port Chalmers, New Zealand, the steamer was wrecked at 45°50′33″S 170°43′56″E / 45.8425°S 170.7321°E / -45.8425; 170.7321 on the southern end of a beach that became known as Victory Beach.

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Berlin City  United States The 74-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.[6]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Tom Hicks  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 27-ton schooner, bound for Port Lavaca, Texas, with a cargo of lumber, was captured and destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas, by the armed screw steamer USS South Carolina ( United States Navy).[4][7]

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Randal S. Smith  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[8]

16 July

List of shipwrecks: 16 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Linwood  United States Carrying a cargo of coffee from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to New York City, the bark was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina 6 miles (10 km) north of Cape Hatteras.[9]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Favorite  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner sank in the Potomac River at Piney Point, Maryland, either because she sprang a leak or because she collided with another vessel. She had been captured on 14 July in the Yeocomico River in Virginia by the gunboat USS Resolute, the sidewheel tug USS Yankee, and three boats from the sloop-of-war USS Pawnee (all  United States Navy).[4][10]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Medora  United States The 101-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Jeffersonville, Indiana.[11]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Eagle′s Wing  United States The 409-ton steamer burned off Pawtuxet, Rhode Island.[8]
Unidentified schooners and sloops  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: An expedition consisting of sailors in five launches from the steam frigate USS Minnesota and the armed tug USS Resolute (both  United States Navy) and 300 Union Army soldiers aboard the vessel Fanny ( United States) burned nine or ten schooners and sloops in the Back River in Virginia.[12]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
B. T. Martin  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The brig, run aground by her crew on the coast of North Carolina near Cape Hatteras, was destroyed by the armed screw steamer USS Union ( United States Navy).[4]
Petrel  Confederate States of America
Illustration from 1862 of USS St. Lawrence sinking Petrel.
American Civil War, Union blockade: On the same day she departed Charleston, South Carolina, on her first voyage as a Confederate privateer, the former United States Revenue Marine revenue cutter mistook the frigate USS St. Lawrence ( United States Navy) for a U.S. merchant ship in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina and fired three shots at her. St. Lawrence returned fire, and one of her 8-inch (203-mm) shells sank Petrel at 32°30′N 079°09′W / 32.500°N 79.150°W / 32.500; -79.150 (Petrel) thirty minutes after the engagement began. Four of Petrel′s crew were killed. Her 36 survivors were taken prisoner by St. Lawrence and later tried for piracy.[4][13]

29 July

List of shipwrecks: 29 July 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Andy Fulton  United States The 146-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Carrollton, Kentucky.[14]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1861
ShipCountryDescription
Pacific  United States The steamer struck Coffin Rock in the Columbia River and ran aground on the Oregon shore. She was salvaged.[15]
Shooting Star Unknown The schooner capsized off the coast of California off Bodega Bay.[16]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Gaines, p. 176.
  3. ↑ Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Sumter. 1861-1862. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1861
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 33.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 195.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
  8. 1 2 Gaines, p. 140.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 122.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 78.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 136.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 193.
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 153.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 138.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 30.

Bibliography


Ship events in 1861
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