List of shipwrecks in November 1862

The list of shipwrecks in November 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1862.

1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
CSS A. B. Seagar	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: Pursued by a United States Navy flotilla, the gunboat, also referred to as CSS Segar, CSS Seger, and CSS Segur, was run aground by her crew and abandoned on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana near Berwick Bay. She was captured and placed in service by Union forces.[1]

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Levi Starbuck	United States	American Civil War: The 376-ton whaler was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda near 35°40′N 66°000′W / 35.667°N 66.000°W / 35.667; -66.000 (Levi Starbuck) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][4]
Pathfinder	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of boots, shoes, cutlery, salt, olive oil, liquor, and other goods, the schooner ran aground at Shallotte Inlet on the coast of North Carolina. Her crew set her afire and abandoned ship. Men from Penobscot boarded her and extinguished the fire, but then burned her when they could not refloat her.[5][6]

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Robert Wilbur	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[5][7]
Sophia	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of rifled field artillery pieces, salt, soda ash, saltpeter, small arms, and ammunition, the 375-ton bark was forced aground 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 km) west of Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the armed screw steamers USS Daylight and USS Mount Vernon (both  United States Navy). Boarding parties from Daylight and Mount Vernon then burned her.[5][8]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[9]
Unidentified sloop	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[9]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Unidentified schooner	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was run aground and destroyed on the coast of North Carolina off New Inlet by the armed screw steamers USS Daylight and USS Mount Vernon (both  United States Navy).[10]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
J. P. Smith	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was hard aground in Bayou Cheval, Louisiana, when she was burned by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Kinsman ( United States Navy) and the steamer Seger ( United States).[5][11]
Osprey	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was burned in Bayou Cheval, Louisiana, by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Kinsman ( United States Navy) and the steamer Seger ( United States).[5]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned on the Little Ogeechee River in Georgia to prevent her capture by the approaching screw steamer USS Dawn and gunboat USS Wissahickon (both  United States Navy).[12]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Tamar	Tasmania	The schooner, carrying 29 passengers and cargo including timber and building stone, went onto rocks at the entrance to Otago Harbour New Zealand while en route from Hobart to Port Chalmers. All passengers and crew survived, but the cargo was mostly lost.[13]
Thomas B. Wales	United States	American Civil War: The 599-ton ship, carrying jute, linseed, and 1,704 bags of saltpeter, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda at 29°15′N 57°57′W / 29.250°N 57.950°W / 29.250; -57.950 (Thomas B. Wales) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][14]

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Victoria	Confederate States	American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of ammunition, the 487-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire and blown up off Last Island in Atchafalaya Bay off Louisiana.[15]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
F. W. Pindar (or J. W. Pindar)	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Cambridge ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, the schooner ran aground at Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina. A boat crew from Cambridge then burned F. W. Pindar. On its way back to Cambridge, the boat was swamped, and its crew was captured by Confederate forces.[5][16]
Unidentified brig	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer USS Daylight ( United States Navy), the brig ran aground in fog on the coast of North Carolina near Fort Fisher.[17]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboats USS Kanawha and USS Kennebec (both  United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade, the schooner was run aground and destroyed by her crew on the coast of Alabama near Mobile.[3]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Ann Maria	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, flour, sugar, and lard, the schooner was forced aground near Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy). She bilged, broke up, was set afire, and sank in 24 feet (7.3 meters) of water.[5][18]
Ariel	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, flour, sugar, and lard, the schooner was forced aground near Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy). Monticello burnedhe the next day.[5][19]
Kate	Confederate States	The schooner struck a snag and sank on the Cape Fear River Bar off North Carolina.[20]

19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
LaClede	United States	The 179-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois.[21]

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Emma Tuttle	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of rosin, the schooner was captured and burned by the armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon ( United States Navy) off the coast of North Carolina 7 nautical miles (13 km) southeast of Fort Fisher.[22]
Hawk	United Kingdom	The steamship was driven ashore north of Southwold, Suffolk, England.[23]
Pearl	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of turpentine, rosin, and shingles, the schooner was leaking so badly while under tow by the gunboat USS Chocura ( United States Navy) that she was set afire and abandoned. Chocura had captured her in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina on 19 November at 33°38′N 078°19′W / 33.633°N 78.317°W / 33.633; -78.317. The armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon ( United States Navy) later found Pearl adrift and took her in tow, but Pearl capsized and sank.[24]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Brown Dick	United States	The 55-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire while being dismantled at Wheeling, Virginia, drifting down the Ohio River after she caught fire.[25]
Unidentified schooner	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, the schooner was burned by Confederate frces on the coast of North Carolina about 5 miles (8 km) from the mouth of New River Inlet when the gunboat USS Ellis ( United States Navy) approached.[10]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
USS Ellis	United States Navy	American Civil War: The 100-ton sidewheel gunboat ran aground about 5 miles (8 km) up the New River Inlet at Jacksonville, North Carolina, and was holed by Confederate artillery fire. Her crew set her on fire on 25 November to prevent her capture by Confederate forces and abandoned her, and the explosion of her ammunition magazine when the flames reached it destroyed her.[26]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Unnamed gunboat	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The incomplete gunboat was burned on the stocks on the North River in Virginia by an expedition from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the armed tug USS General Putnam (both  United States Navy).[27]
Two unidentified schooners	Confederate States	American Civil War: The schooners was burned on the North River in Virginia by an expedition from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the armed tug USS General Putnam (both  United States Navy).[28]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Lone Star	United States	American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sugar, the steamer was captured on the Mississippi River below Plaquemine, Louisiana, by the Terrell Dragoons Mississippi Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army), then burned 10 miles (16 km) further downstream.[29]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Parker Cook	United States	American Civil War: The 136-ton bark, carrying a cargo of pork, beef, butter, cheese, and bread to Aux Cayes Haiti, was captured and burned off Cape Rafael, Santo Domingo, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][30]
Unidentified flat-bottomed boat	United States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The Flat-bottomed boat was destroyed at the head of Floods Creek in Virginia by the armed schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy).[27]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Black Hawk	United States	Carrying a cargo of US$4,000 in specie and stained glass, the brig foundered in a gale in Lake Michigan off Point Betsie, Michigan, at 44°42′N 86°16′W / 44.700°N 86.267°W / 44.700; -86.267 (Black Hawk).[31]
Cléopâtre	French Navy	The frigate burned to the waterline without loss of life off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.[32]
Constantine	Unknown	The schooner was wrecked in Cuffey's Cove on the coast of Mendocino County, California.[33]
Eugene	United States	American Civil War: The 298-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of 15 lives on either 1 or 14 November after striking the wreck of Eliza (flag unknown) in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee.[34]
Flycatcher (or Fly Catcher)	Confederate States	American Civil War: The screw steamer was sunk by Confederate forces as a blockship in the Atchafalaya River or Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[35][36]
Harry King	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dunwich, Suffolk, England.[23]
USS Mingo	United States Navy	American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River off Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at 37°18′54″N 89°30′32″W / 37.315°N 89.509°W / 37.315; -89.509 (USS Mingo (1862)).
S. F. Blunt	Unknown	The schooner became waterlogged and sank at Albion, California. She later was salvaged.[37]
Unidentified schooner	Confederate States	American Civil War: The schooner was loaded with bricks and scuttled by Confederate forces as a blockship in Bayou Teche in Louisiana above the Cornays Bridge.[38]

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