List of shipwrecks in July 1862

The list of shipwrecks in July 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1862.

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Richard O′Brien	United Kingdom	American Civil War. Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner bound from Jamaica to Matamoras, Mexico, with a cargo of rum, sugar, and medicines, was forced aground and burned on the coast of Texas about 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Galveston and 6 miles (10 km) east of Velasco by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Rhode Island ( United States Navy).[1]

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified schooner	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was found wrecked on the coast of North Carolina at Deep River Inlet by the armed screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy).[2]

9 July

List of shipwrecks: 9 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Shingiss	United States	The 185-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River 7 miles (11 km) below Fort Pillow, Tennessee. She was refloated on 13 July.[3]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Belle Italia	Confederate States	American Civil War: The sloop or schooner was scuttled at Lamar, Texas, to prevent her capture by the approaching bark USS Arthur ( United States Navy). She was refloated later in July or in August.[4]
Monte Christo	Confederate States	American Civil War: The schooner was burned by the Confederates at Lamar, Texas, to prevent her capture by the bark USS Arthur ( United States Navy).[5][6]

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Johanna Wagner	Prussia	The barque was wrecked at Strandfontein, South Africa, with no loss of life.
USS Sidney C. Jones	United States Navy	American Civil War: Aground in the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, Mississippi, the mortar schooner was blown up and burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[7]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
USS Sallie Wood	United States Navy	American Civil War: Disabled by Confederate artillery fire from Argyle Landing, Mississippi, and Island No. 82 in the Mississippi River, the troop transport ran aground on Island No. 82 and was abandoned by her passengers and crew under Confederate shelling. Confederate forces then stripped and burned her.[5]
Southerner	United States	The 393-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk in a collision on the Mississippi River at College Point in St. James Parish, Louisiana.[8]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Lord of the Isles	United Kingdom	The clipper burned in the South China Sea at either 12°13′N 114°50′E / 12.217°N 114.833°E / 12.217; 114.833 (Lord of the Isles) or 12°13′N 115°50′E / 12.217°N 115.833°E / 12.217; 115.833 (Lord of the Isles) during a voyage from Hong Kong from Greenock, Scotland. All 30 people on board made Macao in the ship’s boats despite being boarded twice by pirates.[9]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Castle Garden	United States	The 161-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Ohio River at Mound City, Illinois.[10]

26 July

List of shipwrecks: 26 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Louisa Reed	United States	American Civil War: Confederate forces boarded and burned the schooner either on the James River in Virginia or on the lower Potomac River. The sloop-of-war USS Wachusett ( United States Navy) discovered her wreck on 26 July, and her boarding and burning may have occurred earlier.[5][11]

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Golden Gate	United States	Carrying 262 passengers, a crew of 96, and a cargo of gold bullion and specie and possibly gold dust and nuggets on a voyage from San Francisco, California, the 2,067-ton sidewheel paddle steamer caught fire and ran aground in heavy fog on the coast of Mexico 15 miles (24 km) north of Manzanillo, then broke up in huge breakers with the loss of between 176 and 198 lives. The approximately 100 survivors made it to shore and began to walk toward Manzanillo, but were picked up along the way by boats from the steamer St. Louis (flag unknown) and by the Manzanillo customs boat ( Mexico).[12]

31 July

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Capitol	Confederate States	American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer, damaged by fire at Liverpool, Mississippi, on 28 June, was sunk as a blockship in the Yazoo River in Mississippi.[14]
Manelett	United Kingdom	Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[15]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was forced ashore on the coast of Alabama near Mobile in early July by the gunboat USS Kanawha ( United States Navy). Confederate forces then burned her.[16]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War: Loaded with concrete, the schooner was scuttled as blockship by Confederate forces in Aransas Bay off the coast of Texas.[17]

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