List of shipwrecks in June 1862
The list of shipwrecks in June 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1862.
June 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 | Unknown date |
1 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Louisiana Bell | The 89-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was repaired and returned to service.[1] |
3 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Carrie Ladd | The 128-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Columbia River in Oregon about 18 miles (29 km) below the Cascades Rapids.[2] |
4 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arrow | American Civil War: The gunboat was burned on the West Pearl River in Louisiana to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
5 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Havana (or Havanah) | American Civil War, Union blockade: The screw steamer was set afire by her crew at Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida to prevent her capture by the schooner USS Isilda ( | |
Sovereign | American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground and was captured by a United States Navy tug near Island Number 37 on the Mississippi River. She was refloated and placed in Union service.[4] | |
CSS Tennessee | American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad ram was burned prior to launching at Memphis, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Union forces. |
6 June
8 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sereta | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 30-ton schooner, loaded with a cargo of fruit and salt, was burned by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( |
9 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Scuppernong | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, loaded with a cargo of timber intended for use in building a steamer, was burned below a bridge in Indian Town, North Carolina, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Commodore Perry ( |
16 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna Smith | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, lumber, and other goods, the schooner was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida, by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( | |
Dudley | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of turpentine and rosin, the 57-ton sloop was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida, by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( | |
Eliza G. | American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][12] | |
CSS Mary Patterson | American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][13] | |
CSS Maurepas | American Civil War: The gunboat, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][14] |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cecile | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo for the Confederate States Navy of cannons, ammunition wagons, knapsacks, harnesses, rifle-muskets, and gunpowder on a blockade-running voyage, the 460-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in ten minutes after striking a reef off the Abaco Islands in the Northeast Providence Channel in the northern Bahamas near the Abaco Lighthouse and Hole in the Wall.[15] | |
Cortes | The 1,117-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Shanghai, China.[16] |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | The 299-ton screw steamer burned in Virginia.[17] |
20 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Independence | The schooner was lost north of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[18] |
25 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emily | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all |
26 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ellen | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all | |
CSS General Earl Van Dorn | American Civil War: The sidewheel ram was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces. She blew up when the flames reached her magazine.[8][20][21] | |
CSS General Polk | American Civil War: The timberclad sidewheel gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[21] | |
CSS Livingston | American Civil War: The screw gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[21][22] | |
Monticello | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran aground on the coast of Alabama between 6 and 8 miles (10 and 13 km) east of Fort Morgan. Her crew burned her.[23] |
27 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Modern Grace | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Cambridge, the blockade runner, carrying a cargo of rifled cannon, other weapons, and gunpowder, ran aground while trying to enter port at Wilmington, North Carolina. Cambridge then destroyed her.[8] | |
Wave | American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi City, Mississippi, with a cargo of flour, the sloop was captured and burned by the brig USS Bohio ( |
28 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Capitol | American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Yazoo River at Liverpool, Mississippi.[25] | |
USS Island Belle | American Civil War: The armed tug ran aground on Gilliam’s Bar in the Appomattox River near City Point, Virginia, and was burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[26] |
29 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of gunpowder and musket caps, the steamer ran aground on the coast of Alabama at the mouth of Mobile Bay. After Confederate forces salvaged some of her cargo, she drifted free of the shore on 30 June and was captured by Union forces.[27] | |
White Swan | The screw steamer, carrying 65 passengers including many parliamentary leaders including Premier William Fox, left Napier for Wellington on 28 June. On 29 June, the ship hit a reef near Uruti Point on the Wairarapa coast, holing a forward compartment. The ship was run ashore to prevent loss of life, but many irreplaceable government papers were lost.[28][29][30] |
30 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Thomas Snook | The brig collided with the vessel City of Carlisle (flag unknown) in the English Channel off Hastings, England, with the loss of her master and two other members of her crew.[31] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 69.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 138.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 41.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Sovereign
- ↑ Gaines, p. 93.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Sterling Price
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1862
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 128.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 38.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 39.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Eliza G.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Mary Patterson
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Maurepas
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 18-19.
- ↑ Gaines, p.34.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 175.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 118.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Earl Van Dorn
- 1 2 3 Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Polk
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Livingston
- ↑ Gaines, p. 4.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 7.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Capitol
- ↑ Gaines, p. 182.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Dick Keys
- ↑ "Return of the public records &c., lost in the wreck of the steamer 'White Swan'," Appendix to the Journals of the New Zealand House of Representatives January 1862.
- ↑ "Wreck of the 'White Swan'," New Zealand History. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ↑ "Further account of the wreck of the S.S. 'White Swan'," The New Zealander, 16 July 1862. Retrieved from Papers Past (New Zealand National Library), 8 August 2018.
- ↑ The National Archives: Forster v Brewer: the ship City of Carlisle . Appellants: John Forster, of London,...
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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