List of shipwrecks in November 1863

The list of shipwrecks in November 1863 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1863.

November 1863
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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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

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Curlew  United States American Civil War: The 343-ton screw steamer collided with Louisiana (flag unknown) and sank off Point Lookout, Maryland.[1]
Nassau  United States The 518-ton steamer sank at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[2]
Partridge  United States The schooner was lost at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[2]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Amanda  United States American Civil War: The 598-ton bark, bound from Manila in the Philippines to Queenstown, Ireland, with a cargo of hemp and sugar, was captured and burned in the Netherlands East Indies or Indian Ocean by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][4][5]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Allen Collier  United States American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned by Confederate guerillas at her mooring on the Mississippi River at Bolivar Landing or Whitworth's Landing in Mississippi, across from and about a mile (1.6 km) above Laconia, Arkansas.[4][6]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Cornubia  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer USS Niphon ( United States Navy), the sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground by her crew on the coast of North Carolina near New Inlet. She was then captured by Union forces.[7]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Winged Racer  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Manila in the Philippines to New York City with a cargo of camphor, hemp, hides, jute, porcelain, and sugar, the 1,768-ton clipper was captured and burned in the Java Sea near the Sunda Strait by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][4][8]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Captain John Brickell  United States The 188-ton sternwheel paddle steamer collided with a flatboat on the Ohio River, ran ashore on the Ohio side of the river, and sank in shallow water at West Columbia, West Virginia. She later was refloated.[9]
Contest  United States American Civil War: The 1,098-ton clipper, carrying a cargo of Chinese silk, tea, and goods from Yokohama, Japan, to New York City, was captured and burned off the Gaspar Strait in he Netherlands East Indies by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][10][4]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Sunnyside  United States Carrying a cargo of cotton, the 330-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Pomeroy, Ohio, near island No 16 with the loss of 30 to 40 lives.[11]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Aquila  United States
The wreck of Aquila (Illustration from Harper's Weekly, 16 January 1864).
American Civil War: Carrying the disassembled monitor USS Camanche ( United States Navy), the full-rigged ship sank during a storm while moored at Hathaway's Wharf in San Francisco, California. Aquila and her cargo were salvaged, and Camanche was commissioned a year later.[12][13]
USS Lehigh  United States Navy American Civil War: The monitor ran aground off Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, under heavy fire by Confederate forces. She was pulled free on the morning of 16 November by the monitor USS Nahant ( United States Navy).[4]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Isca Unknown The vessel went aground in San Francisco Bay during a storm.[14]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
18 to 20 unidentified boats  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The boats were destroyed on the Piankatank River in Mathews County, Virginia, by a Union expedition.[15]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Bagley  United States Army The 396-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank at Aransas Pass on the coast of Texas.[16]
Charlotte United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 40-ton cutter was lost near Sumner near Christchurch with the loss of all hands during a gale. Her upturned hull was sighted three days later off Pigeon Bay, Banks Peninsula.[17]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: A Union expedition destroyed a sloop and 12 boats at Gwynn's Island in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Virginia.[18]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Black Hawk  United States American Civil War: The 26-ton sidewheel transport ran onto the bank of the Mississippi River in Louisiana at Hay Point, one mile (1.6 km) below the mouth of the Red River of the South, with her upper works destroyed after being ambushed by the 1st Louisiana Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[19]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: A joint expedition by elements of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment ( Union Army), the vessel May Queen ( United States), and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and gunboat USS General Putnam (both  United States Navy) burned three schooners, scows, and boats on the East River in Mathews County, Virginia.[20]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Nellie Moore  United States The 226-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Cumberland Island in Kentucky.[21]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Mary Ann  Confederate States of America The schooner was bound from Calcasieu, Louisiana, for Tampico, Mexico, with a cargo of cotton when she was captured and destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas by the armed screw steamer USS Antona ( United States Navy).[22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Alice Webb Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying assorted cargo, the schooner was beached on the coast of North Carolina inside Bogue Inlet on or before 3 November.[23]
Norman  United States After being captured by Confederate forces on the coast of Florida at the mouth of the Perdido River, the schooner was run aground and burned by her Confederate prize crew to prevent her recapture by the approaching screw steamer USS Bermuda ( United States Navy).[24]
Silver Wave  United States The 245-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Columbus, Kentucky.[25]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 78.
  2. 1 2 Gaines, p. 171.
  3. 1 2 3 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 91.
  7. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Cornubia
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 36.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 35.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 137.
  12. ↑ Branches, Edgar Burgess, and Robert H. Hirst, eds., The Works of Mark Twain, Volume 15: Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 2 (1864-1865), Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1981, ISBN 0-520-04382-0, p. 6.
  13. ↑ trampsofsanfrancisco.com USS Comanche: Ironclad of San Francisco
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 28.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 191.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 167.
  17. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 96.
  18. ↑ Gaines, p. 194.
  19. ↑ Gaines, p. 61.
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 193.
  21. ↑ Gaines, p. 55.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
  23. ↑ Gaines, p. 113.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 43.
  25. ↑ Gaines, p. 103.

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Ship events in 1863
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