List of shipwrecks in March 1865

The list of shipwrecks in March 1865 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1865.

March 1865
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 Unknown date

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
USS Harvest Moon  United States Navy
The wreck of USS Harvest Moon, ca. 1963
American Civil War: The sidewheel gunboat, serving as the flagship of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, sank with the loss of one life five minutes after striking a Confederate mine in the Swash Channel in Winyah Bay in South Carolina. Her survivors, including Dahlgren, were rescued by the gunboat USS Nipsic ( United States Navy). After being stripped, her wreck was abandoned on 20 or 21 April.[1]

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
James Watson  United States Carrying 86 Union Army soldiers and cargo, the 200-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Island Number 76 between Bolivar County, Mississippi, and Desha County, Arkansas, with the loss of 35 lives.[2]
Nettie Hartupee  United States The 81-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Pomeroy, Ohio.[3]
Rob Roy Honduras American Civil War, Union blockade: Fleeing from an armed boat from the schooner USS Fox ( United States Navy) during a blockade-running voyage with a cargo of cavalry sabers and farming and mechanical implements, the 66-ton schooner was run ashore and burned by her crew in Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida.[4][5]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Thorn  United States Army American Civil War: The 403-ton screw transport sank without loss of life two minutes after striking a Confederate mine on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina below Fort Anderson.[4][6]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Stephen Bayard  United States The 155-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee.[7]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Cabot unknown The brig sank at Mendocino, California.[8]
Emily Allison unknown The brig was one of several ships lost during a cyclone which hit New Zealand's North Island. The ship ran ashore and was split amidships at Wanganui.[9]
Maria Jane United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone which hit New Zealand's North Island. The ship, travelling from Tauranga, was wrecked after being swamped by giant waves near Whangamata. Of the three on board, only one survived.[9]
Nebuchadnezzar United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone which hit New Zealand's North Island. She is believed to have foundered with all men on board being lost after last being seen off the heads of the Manukau Harbour during the gale. No trace was ever found of her.[9]
Wildfire United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone which hit New Zealand's North Island. The ship was wrecked near Whangarei Heads whilst en route from Hokianga to Auckland, with the loss of all four crew.[9]

11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Annie Doyle Unknown The schooner was wrecked on the Yaquina Bar at the mouth of the Yaquina River in Yaquina Bay on the coast of Oregon.[10]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
USS Althea  United States Navy American Civil War: The 72-ton tug sank immediately after striking a Confederate mine on the Blakeley River in Alabama. Two of her crew were killed and three were injured.[4] She was raised and repaired, and she was recommissioned on 7 November.

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Gazehound  United Kingdom The 380-ton barque broke free of her moorings and was driven ashore while loading wool at Oamaru, New Zealand during a heavy storm (the remnants of a cyclone which had earlier struck the North Island (see March 10).[9]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Caldwell  Confederate States of America The 51-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Fayetteville, North Carolina.[11]
Clarendon  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 143-ton screw steamer was captured and burned by Union forces at Fayetteville, North Carolina.[12][13]
CSS Neuse  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The steam-powered ironclad ram was burned in the Neuse River at 35°16′1.33″N 77°37′17.8″W / 35.2670361°N 77.621611°W / 35.2670361; -77.621611 (CSS Neuse) to prevent her capture by Union forces.

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Industry  United States The 300-ton bark was wrecked on the Middle Sands at the entrance to the Columbia River on the coast of Oregon with the loss of 17 lives.[10]

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
George S. Wright  United States The 199-ton screw steamer was lost.[14]
S. D. Lewis  United States The brig ran aground on Clatsop Spit at the entrance to the Columbia River on the coast of Oregon and was dashed to pieces by the surf with no loss of life.[10]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The armed screw steamer USS Don and armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Heliotrope and USS Stepping Stones (all  United States Navy) destroyed three schooners and four small boats on Mattox Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia.[15]

18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Mexico  United States The 120-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Point Isabel, Texas.[16]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Charles Miller  United States The 93-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of two lives in the Cumberland River about 12 miles (19 km) below Nashville, Tennessee.[17]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
George C. Collins  United States The 234-ton screw steamer was stranded on the St. Johns River in Florida.[18]

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Adriatic  United States The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River at the head of Palmyra Bend. She later was refloated and converted into a barge.[19]
USS Milwaukee  United States Navy American Civil War: The Milwaukee-class river monitor sank without loss of life after striking a Confederate mine in the Blakeley River in Alabama. Her wreck was raised and scrapped in 1868.

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
USS Osage  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Spanish Fort: The Neosho-class monitor sank with the loss of four crewmen killed and eight wounded after striking a Confederate mine in the Blakeley River in Alabama.[4] Her wreck later was raised and was sold in 1867.

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Malta  United States The 33-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Marietta, Ohio.[3]
Oil City  United States The 59- or 106.75-ton sternwheel paddle steamer′s bottom was ripped open when she struck a sunken coal barge in the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. She sank, and her cabin separated. Her hull and machinery later were salvaged.[3]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
General Lyon  United States During a voyage from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Fort Monroe, Virginia, the 1,206-ton screw steamer burned and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with hurricane-force winds. Of an estimated 550 to 600 passengers and crew only about 29 survived, rescued by the steam transport General Sedgwick ( United States).[20][21]
Mark R. Cheek  United States The 122-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Ouachita City, Louisiana.[22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date March 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Angler  United Kingdom Carrying a cargo of coffee and logwood, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[23]
James Stockman  United States The schooner was burned on the Blood River in Louisiana after being captured 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the mouth of the Amite River by a Confederate States Navy boat expedition.[24]
Nugget United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand Around the beginning of March, the cutter's anchor chain broke at Greymouth, New Zealand, and she drifted over the bar at the mouth of the Grey River, holing her, and out to sea. One of the two men on board made it back to shore, the other drowned.[25]
Sylph United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 47-ton schooner was wrecked on a sandbar at Hokitika, where she was arriving from Lyttelton.[26]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America The vessels, one of them a tender, were burned and sunk on the Pee Dee River in South Carolina 110 miles (177 km) above Georgetown to prevent their capture by Union forces.[27]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 147.
  2. ↑ Gaines, p. 97.
  3. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 136.
  4. 1 2 3 4 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-April 1865
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 44.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 129.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 26.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 109.
  10. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 138.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 115.
  12. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Clarendon
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 116.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 197.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 193.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
  17. ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
  18. ↑ Gaines, p. 40.
  19. ↑ Gaines, p. 105.
  20. ↑ civilwartalk.com lost-in-the-last-year-of-the-war-1865
  21. ↑ Anonymous, "DREADFUL FIRE AT SEA.; FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST The U.S. Transport Steamer General Lyon Burned Off Cape Hatteras. Invalid Troops, Refugees, and Women and Children on Board," nytimes.com, April 3, 1865.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 70.
  23. ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 67.
  25. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 108–109.
  26. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 118.
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 158.

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Ship events in 1865
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