List of shipwrecks in March 1864

The list of shipwrecks in March 1864 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1864.

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Archimedes	United Kingdom	The steam schooner was wrecked on a sandbar at the mouth of the Meuse River in the Netherlands during a storm. Her crew was rescued by local lifesaving personnel.

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified schooner	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying ammunition and other assorted cargo, the 80-ton schooner was run aground and burned by her crew in Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida when the schooner USS Annie ( United States Navy) approached.[1]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Sophia	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was discovered aground in Altamaha Sound, Georgia, by the schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy), which captured her. She eventually was refloated and placed under the control of a U.S. Navy prize crew.[2]

3-4 March (overnight)

List of shipwrecks: 3-4 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Arletta	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of alcohol, coffee, and whiskey, the 35-to-50-ton schooner was forced aground on the south end of Tybee Island on the coast of Georgia by the gunboat USS South Carolina ( United States Navy), then was captured by a detachment of the 3rd Rhode Island Artillery Regiment ( Union Army).[3]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified schooner	United States	American Civil War: The schooner was captured and sunk at Cherrystone, Virginia, by a mixed force of Confederate States Navy sailors and troopers of the 5th Virginia Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[4]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
USS Peterhoff	United States Navy	American Civil War, Union blockade: The former yacht, operating as a patrol vessel, was rammed and sunk off New Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy), which had mistaken her for a blockade runner. Men from the screw steamers USS Mount Vernon and USS Niphon ( United States Navy) boarded her on 7 March and completed her destruction to prevent her salvage by Confederate forces.[2]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Titan	United States Army	American Civil War: After being captured on 5 March by a Confederate States Navy raiding force, the tug was pursued by the gunboat USS Tulip ( United States Navy) up the Piankatank River to its head at Freeport, Virginia, where the Confederates burned her to the waterline when the armed steamer USS Commodore Read, armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell, armed tugs USS Fuchsia and USS Thomas Freeborn, and the armed screw steamer USS Currituck (all  United States Navy) arrived on the scene.[2][5]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
USS Conestoga	United States Navy	American Civil War: The 672-ton timberclad sidewheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of two lives less than four minutes after colliding with the sidewheel paddle steamer USS General Price ( United States Navy) in the Mississippi River about 10 miles (16 km) below Grand Gulf, Mississippi, at Boudurant Point. She was refloated on 27 September 1865.[2][6]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
A. J. Sweeney	United States	Loaded with a cargo of corn and 28 horses, the 244-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a bridge abutment, burned, and sank without loss of human life in the Cumberland River near Clarksville, Tennessee. She later was refloated and dismantled.[7]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Helen	Confederate States of America	Departing Charleston, South Carolina, during a gale to run the Union blockade and carry a cargo of cotton to Nassau in the Bahamas, the 185-register ton steamer was wrecked on Bowman's Jetty at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Only one person on board survived.[2][8]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Julia Baker	United States	American Civil War: The schooner was boarded and burned by Confederate guerrillas near Newport News, Virginia.[2]
Seagull	United States	Carrying a cargo of oysters, the full-rigged ship came ashore on Brigantine Beach near Atlantic City, New Jersey, full of water and with her crew missing.[9]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Marion	Confederate States of America	American Civil War, Union blockade: The badly leaking 12-to-18-ton schooner was sunk by the gunboat USS Aroostook ( United States Navy) in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas, after Aroostook removed her sails, rigging, and cargo of iron and salt. Aroostook had captured her off Velasco, Texas, on 12 March.[10]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Countess	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground in the Alexandria Falls on the Red River of the South near Alexandria, Louisiana, and was burned by her crew to prevent her capture by advancing Union forces.[2][11]
Fanny Bullitt	United States	The 438-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Napoleon, Arkansas.[12]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Spread Eagle	United States	The 389-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at either Pickney Bend or Washington, Missouri.[13]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Clifton	Confederate States of America	American Civil War, Union blockade: The 892-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of Texas at Sabine Bar on the west side of Sabine Pass while trying to run the Union blockade. Unable to refloat her, her crew threw her cargo overboard and burned her to prevent her capture by Union forces.[14]
Wild Pigeon	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Havana, Cuba, to Florida, the 37-ton schooner sank immediately with the loss of one crewman after being rammed amidships by the screw steamer USS Hendrick Hudson ( United States Navy).[2][1]

21-22 March

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Buffalo	United States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Taken as a prize by the bark USS Braziliera ( United States Navy) on 1 February, the sloop was driven high onto a beach on Ossabaw Island on the coast of Georgia by a storm.[3]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Julia Baker	United States	American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate guerrillas in Virginia near Chuckatuck Creek.[16]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Alice Dean	United States	The 394-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a bank on the Ohio River 10 miles (16 km) below Cincinnati, Ohio, and sank. Jennie Hubbs and Lady Pike (nationalities unknown) took off her passengers and cargo. She later was refloated.[17]
Decotah	United States	Troops under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest ( Confederate States Army) burned the 230-ton sternwheel paddle steamer while she was under repair on the Marine Ways at Paducah, Kentucky.[18]
Unidentified schooner	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt and leather, the schooner was burned at Swansboro or Morehead City, North Carolina (sources disagree), by a joint Union Army-United States Navy landing party consisting of personnel from the 158th New York Infantry Regiment ( Union Army) and the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Britannia ( United States Navy).[2][19]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
J. H. Russell	United States	American Civil War: On a voyage to New Orleans, Louisiana, with a cargo of cattle, cotton, hogs, mules, and seed, the 416-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed at Plaquemine, Louisiana, by a fire set by a Confederate agent.[20]
USS Kingfisher	United States Navy	American Civil War, Union blockade: The 451-ton bark was wrecked off the coast of South Carolina on a shoal on the Combahee Bank in Saint Helena Sound near the south end of Otter Island. She was abandoned on 5 April.[21]
Tempest	United States	The 63-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was sunk by ice on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio.[22]
Woodford	United States	American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 487-ton sidewheel hospital steamer was wrecked and sank on the Red River of the South while going over the Alexandria Falls near Alexandria, Louisiana.[23]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States of America	American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with a cargo of cotton, the schooner was destroyed in Matagorda Bay off the coast of Texas by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Estrella ( United States Navy).[24]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Avon	United States	American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of 1,600 tons of guano from Howland Island to Cork, Ireland, was captured, used as a gunnery target, and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 15°11′N 34°25′W / 15.183°N 34.417°W / 15.183; -34.417 (Avon) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[2][25]
Florence	United States	The 399-ton steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River near Atchison, Kansas.[26]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Columbia	United States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The 44-ton screw tug burned on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.[2][6]
Etta	Confederate States of America	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was destroyed near Cedar Key, Florida, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy).[2]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States of America	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was destroyed near Cedar Key, Florida, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy).[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1864

Ship	Country	Description
Leon	United States	The 87-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Burnum, Arkansas.[27]
Susan Douglas	United Kingdom	The brig was wrecked at Samasana, off Formosa. The captain[28] and at least 10 crew survived. The crew were picked up from Samasana by the gunboat HMS Bustard ( Royal Navy).[29][30]
William Barnhill	United States	Towing barges carrying empty oil barrels, the 149.47-ton sternwheel towboat struck a canal aqueduct on the Allegheny River near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and sank.[31]

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