List of shipwrecks in May 1864

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

May 1864
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29 30 31 Unknown date

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Emma  United States American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 385-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured and burned by a Confederate States Army artillery battery on the Red River of the South in Louisiana near Fort DeRussy.[1]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
City Belle  United States American Civil War, Red River Campaign: While carrying between 400 and 725 troops of the 120th Ohio Infantry Regiment ( Union Army), the sidewheel paddle steamer was ambushed by Confederate States Army forces at Snaggy Point on the Red River of the South in Louisiana about 20 to 40 miles (32 to 64 km) above Fort DeRussy. A Confederate artillery shell struck her boiler, wrecking her and scalding to death about a third of the troops aboard. About 200 troops jumped overboard and swam to safety.[2]
Express (or Experiment)  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade, the schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton from Galveston, Texas, to Tampico, Mexico, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas by the armed screw steamer USS Virginia ( United States Navy).[3][4]
Jean Goujon  France The ship was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba, to Le Havre, France, with a cargo of sugar, when, in a storm at night, her captain mistook his position and steered south of the rocks he thought were the Les Casquets. The rocks were, in fact, the Écréhous and by steering south he accidentally ran the ship onto the rocks off Jersey in the Channel Islands. The crew was saved.[5]
Pauline  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 135-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Shreveport, Louisiana.[6]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Covington  United States Navy American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Badly damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry on the Red River of the South, the gunboat was burned by her crew off Alexandria, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. Her commanding officer and 32 of her crew avoided capture and escaped to Alexandria.[2]
John Warner  United States Army American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry and artillery on the Red River of the South near Marksville, Louisiana, while transporting 250 men of the 56th Ohio Infantry Regiment ( Union Army), the 391-ton sidewheel transport ran aground and sank with about 34 men of the regiment killed and another 150 captured.[7]
USS Signal  United States Navy American Civil War, Red River Campaign: Badly damaged in combat with Confederate States Army infantry on the Red River of the South, the gunboat was burned by her crew off Alexandria, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. The Confederates captured her crew.

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Commodore Jones  United States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat was blown to pieces by a 2,000-pound (907-kg) electrically detonated Confederate mine on the James River in Virginia, killing 40 of her crew and wounding 29.[3][8]

7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Raleigh  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The casemate ironclad suffered severe damage when she ran aground on the bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina and was destroyed by her crew to prevent her capture by Union forces.[3][9]
USS Shawsheen  United States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat was disabled and captured by Confederate States Army troops on the James River in Virginia. The Confederate troops set her on fire when two United States Navy ironclads approached, and she exploded when the flames reached her ammunition magazine.[3][10]

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Sophia  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: While under the control of a United States Navy prize crew, the schooner foundered in a heavy gale off the coast of the United States. She had been captured by the schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy) on 3 March.[3]

9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Silver Cloud No. 2  United States Carrying a cargo of government supplies, the 287-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a rock and sank in shallow water in the Cumberland River in Tennessee. She was refloated the next day.[11]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Carondelet  United States Navy American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The ironclad gunboat ran aground on the Red River of the South above Alexandria, Louisiana. She soon was refloated.[3]
Harriet A. Weed  United States Army American Civil War: Carrying 13 officers and 20 enlisted men of the 3rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment ( United States Army), the sidewheel transport sank less than a minute after striking two Confederate mines on the St. Johns River in Florida near Mandarin Point and the mouth of Cedar Creek. One officer was blown 20 feet (6.1 meters) into the air, five men were killed, and the ship was a total loss.[3][12]
USS Mound City  United States Navy American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The ironclad gunboat ran aground on the Red River of the South above Alexandria, Louisiana. She soon was refloated.[3]
Invercauld (or Minerva) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Aberdeen-based Invercauld left Melbourne for Callao on 2 May. During a severe gale south of New Zealand, the ship hit the northwestern tip of Auckland Island and swiftly broke up. Of the 25 crew, six were lost in the wreck, the survivors were washed ashore and subsisted on plant roots and shellfish for a little over a year. By the time of their rescue only three of the crew were still alive: Captain George Dalgarno, Ship's Mate Andrew Smith, and one seaman. They were rescued by the Julian ( Peru), which was en route to Callao, on 20 May 1865.[13]

Contemporary sources have somewhat different information, referring to the Minerva being wrecked in identical circumstances, with four survivors being rescued on 25 March 1865.[14] James Teer, a survivor of the shipwreck of the General Grant recorded that in April 1867 the survivors found a stave on the mainland on a point inside Enderby Island. On the stave was written in charcoal Minerva - 4 men, 1 officer - Leith - May 10th, 1864 - March 25th, 1865. Teer notes from the relative position of the words, our impression was, that the word Leith had reference to the man or men, and not to the Minerva.[15]

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Invercauld  United Kingdom The sailing ship was wrecked on the Auckland Islands. Some members of the crew survived.

14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Anna Eliza  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was on a blockade-running voyage from the Santee River in South Carolina to Nassau in the Bahamas with a cargo of turpentine spirits when she was discovered dismasted and waterlogged in the North Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina at 34°35′N 74°55′W / 34.583°N 74.917°W / 34.583; -74.917 (Anna Eliza) by the mortar gunboat USS Sea Foam ( United States Navy).[16]
Jenny Jones  United States The schooner was stranded on Peacock Spit while sailing up the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington Territory.[17]

16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
John Williams  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on a reef off Danger Island in the Cook Islands and sank without loss of life.

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Marchioness United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 175-ton brigantine parted her anchor cable off the coast of Taranaki during a heavy swell and was wrecked on a rocky shore between Oakura and Cape Egmont without loss of life.[18]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
George Latimer  United States American Civil War: The 198-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of flour, lard, bread, and kerosene, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Recife, Brazil, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 34°55′N 55°13′W / 34.917°N 55.217°W / 34.917; -55.217 (George Latimer) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3][20]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Star of Victoria United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Tasmania The barque was wrecked at the mouth of the New River in southern New Zealand. She was being towed by the tug Aphrasia towards Foveaux Strait which was in heavy swell, when the towrope parted. The tug was unable to keep the barque on course and it struck rocks, holing her below the waterline. All passengers and crew were landed safely.[21]

20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Australian unknown The brig was deliberately run ashore at Akaroa, New Zealand after she was holed.[22]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Era United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was wrecked on a sandbar at Maketu, New Zealand without loss of life.[22]
Nile  United States The 650-ton screw steamer exploded at Detroit, Michigan, with the loss of 13 lives.[23]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
USS Columbine  United States Navy
Illustration of the capture of USS Columbine.
American Civil War, Battle of Horse Landing:The sidewheel paddle steamer was ambushed by Confederate States Army forces on the St. Johns River in Florida, ran aground, and was captured by Confederate troops. Confederate forces burned her to prevent her recapture by the gunboat USS Ottawa ( United States Navy), which was five miles (8 km) upriver.
Sting Ray  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was grounded by her crew on the coast of Texas after they overpowered a prize crew placed aboard her by the gunboat USS Kineo ( United States Navy) earlier in the day. The prize crew had gotten drunk on liquor the crew of Sting Ray gave them.[3][24]

24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Lebanon  United States American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned by Confederate States Army troops at Ford's Landing, Arkansas.[3]
Three unidentified transports  United States American Civil War: The transports came under fire by Confederate States Army artillery on the Mississippi River at Daniel Session's Plantation. One careened over and was hauled to the river's bank, while the othr two were disabled and set afire.[25]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Visalia  United States The 76-ton screw steamer struck a snag and sank at Hayes Bend on the Sacramento River, three miles (4.8 km) above Nicholas, California.[26]

26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Boston  United States Army American Civil War: Aground on the Ashepoo River in South Carolina since around midnight on 25 May with the loss of seven or eight lives while transporting 300 personnel of the 34th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, 90 cavalrymen, and 60 horses (all  Union Army), the 574-, 590-, or 630-ton sidewheel transport took 70 to 80 shell hits and was burned prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[3][27][28]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Lebanon  United States American Civil War: The 225-ton sidewheel transport was burned by Confederate forces on the Mississippi River at Greenville, Mississippi. She had been captured on the Mississippi about 10 miles (16 km) below Greenville near Ford's Landing on 25 May by a yawl manned by men of the 4th Missouri Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[29]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Belle Creole  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[30][31]
Black Hawk  United States The 57- or 211-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[30][31]
Empire Parish  United States The 279-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[31][1]
Fawn  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[31][32]
General Finegan  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, the sloop was captured and destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida just north of the Chassahowitzka River near Homosassa Bay by two boats from the schooner USS Ariel ( United States Navy).[3][33]
Louisiana Bell  United States The 89-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[34][31]
Meteor  United States The 417-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[35][31]
New Orleans  United States The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[6][31]
Time and Tide  United States The 130-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned in a wharf fire at New Orleans, Louisiana.[36][31]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Clara Ames (or Clara Eames)  United States American Civil War: Ambushed by Confederate States Army troops on the Mississippi River about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) below Columbia, Arkansas, the 105-ton sternwheel transport ran aground about 4 miles (6.4 km) above Sunnyside Plantation, Arknasa, and was captured by the Confederates, who burned her to the waterline.[3][37]
Fortunate  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: After the sloop, carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, was captured and taken in tow by the screw steamer USS Bermuda ( United States Navy), she parted her hawser in the North Atlantic Ocean off Florida and sank at 27°53′N 79°45′W / 27.883°N 79.750°W / 27.883; -79.750 (Fortunate).[33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1864
ShipCountryDescription
CSS Doubloon  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 293-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was refloated and repaired.[38]
Drover  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Red River Campaign: The 26-ton sidewheel ferry probably was scuttled as a blockship in the Red River of the South at Shreveport, Louisiana. She probably was refloated.[38]
Pontiac  United States The 68-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded at Grand Have, Michigan, killing three people.[23]

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Gaines, p. 64.
  2. 1 2 Gaines, p. 62.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1864
  4. ↑ Gaines, p. 168.
  5. ↑ "The Wreck of the Jean Goujon".
  6. 1 2 Gaines, p. 71.
  7. ↑ Gaines, pp. 67-68.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 177.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 127.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 188.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 70.
  12. ↑ Gaines, pp. 40-41.
  13. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 100–102.
  14. ↑ Chronological List of Antarctic Expeditions and Related Historical Events, R. K. Headland, page 182
  15. ↑ "Wreck of the General Grant at the Auckland Islands, 18 Months Ago". Southland Times (882). 15 January 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 38.
  17. ↑ Gaines, p. 194.
  18. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 99–100.
  19. ↑ Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Florida. 1862-1863. Captain John Newland Maffitt. CSS Florida. 1864. Captain Charles M. Morris"
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 14.
  21. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 102.
  22. 1 2 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 100.
  23. 1 2 Gaines, p. 81.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 171.
  25. ↑ Gaines, p. 105.
  26. ↑ Gaines, p. 31.
  27. ↑ researchonline.net The Civil War in South Carolina: Index to South Carolina Events in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
  28. ↑ Gaines, p. 143.
  29. ↑ Gaines, p. 99.
  30. 1 2 Gaines, p. 61.
  31. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Anonymous, "," New York Times, June 5, 1864.
  32. ↑ Gaines, pp. 64-65.
  33. 1 2 Gaines, p. 40.
  34. ↑ Gaines, p. 69.
  35. ↑ Gaines, p. 70.
  36. ↑ Gaines, p. 74.
  37. ↑ Gaines, p. 93.
  38. 1 2 Gaines, p. 63.

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