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.
July 1862 | |||||||
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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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 |
4 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Richard O′Brien | 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 ( |
6 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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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 ( |
9 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Shingiss | 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Belle Italia | American Civil War: The sloop or schooner was scuttled at Lamar, Texas, to prevent her capture by the approaching bark USS Arthur ( | |
Monte Christo | American Civil War: The schooner was burned by the Confederates at Lamar, Texas, to prevent her capture by the bark USS Arthur ( |
15 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Johanna Wagner | The barque was wrecked at Strandfontein, South Africa, with no loss of life. | |
USS Sidney C. Jones | 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Sallie Wood | 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 | 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lord of the Isles | The clipper burned in the South China Sea at either 12°13′N 114°50′E / 12.217°N 114.833°E or 12°13′N 115°50′E / 12.217°N 115.833°E 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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Castle Garden | The 161-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Ohio River at Mound City, Illinois.[10] |
26 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Louisa Reed | 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 ( |
27 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Golden Gate | 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 ( |
31 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Woodruff | Unknown | The full-rigged ship was lost in Puget Sound at Camano Island on the coast of Washington Territory. She later was salvaged.[13] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Capitol | 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 | Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[15] | |
Unidentified schooner | 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 ( | |
Unidentified schooner | American Civil War: Loaded with concrete, the schooner was scuttled as blockship by Confederate forces in Aransas Bay off the coast of Texas.[17] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 171.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 132.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 102.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 167.
- 1 2 3 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862
- ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 73-74
- ↑ Lubbock, Basil (1919). The China Clippers (4th ed.). Glasgow: James Brown & Son. p. 127.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 184.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 80.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 194.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Capitol
- ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 7.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
Ship events in 1862 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Ship commissionings: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
Shipwrecks: | 1857 | 1858 | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 |
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