List of shipwrecks in June 1861
The list of shipwrecks in June 1861 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1861.
June 1861 | ||||||
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 | Unknown date |
2 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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William Henry | The 95-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank on the Arkansas River at Fort Smith, Arkansas.[1] |
4 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Canadian | The passenger steamer struck an iceberg and sank in the Strait of Belle Isle 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) north of Cape Bauld, Newfoundland, with the loss of 35 lives. Her 266 survivors were rescued by four French fishing vessels. |
6 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Greenville | The 105-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Wabash River at Terre Haute, Indiana.[2] |
8 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Somerset | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was captured in Breton's Bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River and burned on the Virginia shore by the armed screw steamer USS Resolute ( |
15 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christiana Kean | American Civil War: The schooner was run aground, boarded, and burned by Confederate forces in rowboats one-half mile (0.8 km) from the Virginia bank of the Potomac River off Machodoc Creek, below Mathias Point opposite Cedar Point.[5] |
16 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cataract | The 393-ton screw steamer burned at Erie, Pennsylvania, with the loss of four lives.[6] |
18 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cora Anderson | The 658-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in Lake Providence in Louisiana.[7] |
24 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Keystone | American Civil War: The 69-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at Arkansas City, Arkansas.[8] |
30 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Passenger | Unknown | American Civil War: The sloop sank in the Potomac River, but other details are unclear. Sources disagree on whether she was a Confederate vessel captured and destroyed by the screw steamer USS Resolute ( |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Baton Rouge | The 65-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Tennessee River in Tennessee.[9] | |
Unidentified vessel | American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the vessel in the Warwick River in Virginia.[10] |
References
Notes
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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