List of shipwrecks in November 1864

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

November 1864
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1 November

List of shipwrecks: 1 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Empress Theresa  United States American Civil War: The bark, of either 312 or 663 tons (sources disagree) was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Delaware Capes by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][2][3]
Goodspeed  United States American Civil War: The 283-ton schooner, in ballast, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga ( Confederate States Navy).[4][1][5]
Otter Rock  United States American Civil War: The 91-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of potatoes, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean off Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga ( Confederate States Navy).[4][1][5]
Winslow  United States The 265-ton screw steamer sank after colliding with another vessel at Cleveland, Ohio.[6]

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Aphrasia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The 91-ton paddle steamer was en route from Auckland to Newcastle, New South Wales when she sprang a leak while just north of the Bay of Islands. While attempting to return to Russell, the intake of water increased, and the ship was abandoned at Takou Bay, just south of the Cavalli Islands.[7]

3 November

List of shipwrecks: 3 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
A. J. Bird  United States American Civil War: The 182-ton schooner was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Delaware Capes by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][8]
Arcole  United States American Civil War: The 663-ton full-rigged ship was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][9][10]
E. F. Lewis  United States American Civil War: The 119-ton schooner was captured and destroyed in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Delaware Capes by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][3]
J. W. Cheeseman  United States American Civil War: The 215-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate States Army troops on the Tennessee River below Johnsonville, Tennessee. They had captured her with a cargo of commissary stores and furniture on the Tennessee River near Paris Landing and White Oak Island on 30 October.[11]
Robert Emmert (or Robert Emmet)  United States The 178-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at St. Aubert’s Island.[12]
T. D. Wagner  United States American Civil War: The brig was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean near Sandy Hook, New Jersey, by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][13][14]
Vapor  United States American Civil War: The 312-ton schooner was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, by the merchant raider CSS Olustee ( Confederate States Navy).[1][13][15]

4 November

List of shipwrecks: 4 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Arcola  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 203-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[16]
Aurora  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 331-ton screw steamer was burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[16]
Celeste  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[16]
Chickamauga  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[16]
Doan No. 2  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 250-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[17]
Duke  United States The 123-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Cumberland River in Tennessee.[18]
Eagle Coal Co.  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[18]
USS Elfin  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: Heavily damaged by Confederate States Army artillery, the tinclad gunboat was burned by her crew in the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[1][18]
Goody Friends  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 195-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Union forces on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army troops.[18]
J. B. Ford  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 197-ton steamer was burned by Union forces on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army troops.[18]
J. H. Doane  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[18]
Josephine  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[19]
Kentucky  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[11]
USS Key West  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: Heavily damaged by Confederate States Army artillery, the gunboat was run aground and burned by her crew in the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[1][11]
Mountaineer  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 211-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Union forces on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[11]
HMS Racehorse  Royal Navy The Cormorant-class gunvessel was wrecked near Chefoo, China.
USS Tawah  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: Heavily damaged by Confederate States Army artillery, the gunboat was burned by her crew in the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee.[1][20]
T. H. U. S. 57  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[21]
USS Undine  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: Operated by a Confederate crew after her capture on 30 October by Confederate forces but not renamed or commissioned into Confederate service, the gunboat was burned by her crew in the Tennessee River off Reynoldsburg Island near Johnsonville, Tennessee. She exploded when the flames reached her ammunition magazine.[1][21]
U.S. No. 22  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[21]
U.S. No. 44  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[21]
Venus  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The 235-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Union forces on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[21]
Whale No. 8  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barge was scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Confederate States Army forces.[22]
Two unnamed barges  United States American Civil War, Battle of Johnsonville: The barges were scuttled and burned on the Tennessee River off Johnsonville, Tennessee, to prevent their capture by Confederate States Army forces.[23]

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Charter Oak  United States American Civil War: The 150-ton schooner was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy).[24][25]
Fawn  United States American Civil War: The 25-ton steamer was captured and burned at the Buffalo Shoals on the Big Sandy River between Kentucky and West Virginia by the 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion ( Confederate States Army). (This may be the same shipwreck as the 11 November shipwreck of a steamer named Fawn).[26]
James White  United States American Civil War: The 662-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in 13 feet (4 meters) of water in the Mississippi River at Island Number Ten with the loss of 15 lives.[27]
R. H. Barnum  United States American Civil War: The 30-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was captured and burned at the Buffalo Shoals on the Big Sandy River between Kentucky and West Virginia by the 34th Virginia Cavalry Battalion ( Confederate States Army).[26]
CSS Spray  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 105-ton armed tug was scuttled by the Confederates in the St. Marys River in Florida to prevent her capture by Union forces.[28]
Unidentified sloop  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, loaded with cotton and turpentine, ran aground on Sullivan's Island in front of Fort Moultrie at Charleston, South Carolina. The monitor USS Patapsco ( United States Navy) shelled her, hitting her three times and setting her afire.[1][29]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Buckskin  United States American Civil War: After being captured by Confderate guerrillas, the sloop was recaptured and burned on Chopawamsic Creek by the armed screw steamer USS Anacostia ( United States Navy).[30]

7-8 November

List of shipwrecks: 7-8 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
D. Godfrey  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of mess beef and pork from Boston, Massachusetts, the 299-ton bark was captured, burned, and sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Cape Verde Islands at 04°42′N 28°24′W / 4.700°N 28.400°W / 4.700; -28.400 (D. Godfrey) by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy) on either 7 or 8 November.[24][25][31]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Catherine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner left Lyttelton, New Zealand, for the North Island on 8 November, laden with coal. Wreckage was spotted later the same day by the captain of the steamer Mullogh, which was identified as belonging to the Catherine. It is believed that the schooner, which was in a poor condition, had been overloaded.[32]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Susan  United States American Civil War: The 134-ton brigantine was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean southwest of the Cape Verde Islands by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy).[24][25][33]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Fawn  United States The 36-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Big Sandy River between Kentucky and West Virginia. (This may be the same shipwreck as the 5 November shipwreck of a steamer named Fawn).[26]
USS Tulip  United States Navy The gunboat suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Potomac River off Piney Point, Maryland. The explosion killed 49 men. The tug Hudson ( United States Army) rescued 10 survivors, two of whom later died of their injuries.[34]

12 November

List of shipwrecks: 12 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Kate Prince  United States American Civil War: The 1,100-ton clipper, carrying a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy).[24][25]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Lizzie M. Stacey  United States American Civil War: The 140-ton schooner was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy).[24][25]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Desirée  France The smack was driven ashore in Oxwich Bay, Wales. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France, to Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.[35]
Hectorine  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[35]
The Lady of the Lake  United Kingdom The vessel foundered in Oxwich Bay, Wales.[35]
Lancaster No. 4  United States The 218-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River below Portland, Missouri.[36]

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Katie  United States The 180-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Diamond Island with the loss of one life nine minutes after colliding with Des Moines (flag unknown).[37]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Elizabeth United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner's anchor chain parted while she was moored at Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, and was driven on shore by a heavy sea.[32]
Iwanowa Unknown The full-rigged ship was lost off Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington Territory.[38]
Louisa Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore by the gunboat USS Chocura ( United States Navy) on the bar off the San Bernard River off the coast of Texas, where a heavy gale completely destroyed her before Union forces could board her.[1][39]
Ork Unknown The vessel was wrecked on the Umpqua River Bar at the mouth of the Umpqua River off the coast of Oregon.[40]
Shrapnel  United States Army The steamer sank in a canal in Virginia while on her way to Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs.[41]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Francis Skiddy  United States The 1,183- or 1,235-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on a reef in the Hudson River 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Albany, New York.[42]
L and R Smith  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of Cape Henry, Virginia.[43]
William L. Ewing  United States The 335-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[44]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Sagamore Unknown Carrying a cargo of granite and cobbles, the schooner foundered in a storm in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California four miles (6.4 km) above Point Pinole.[45]

27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Greyhound  United States American Civil War: The 380-, 400-, or 900-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, serving as headquarters ship for Major General Benjamin Butler ( United States Army), was destroyed by an explosion and fire on the James River in Virginia 5 to 6 miles (8 to 10 km) below Bermuda Hundred. Union forces assessed the cause of the explosion as a "coal torpedo" – a charge of gunpowder disguised as a lump of coal – planted by Confederate saboteurs. All aboard, including Butler, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter ( United States Navy), and Major General Robert C. Schenk ( United States Army), survived, ut horses belonging to Butler and his staff died in the sinking.[1][46][47]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Charlie Potwan  United States Carrying a cargo of slack coal, the 52-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was swamped by the wakes of the passing Diamond and Coal Hill (nationalities unknown), filled with water, capsized, and sank without loss of life at Eightmile Island on the Ohio River above Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Her cabin separated from her hull and floated downstream.[48]
Doane  United States Carrying forage and freight, the 250-ton sternwheel paddle steamer ran aground, broke in two, and sank in 6 feet (1.8 meters) of water in the Arkansas River in Arkansas about 20 miles (32 km) above Dardanelle and 18 miles (29 km) east of Clarksville.[49]
CSS Florida  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: While in United States Navy custody, the captured sloop-of-war, leaking after a collision on 19 November with the United States Army Transport USAT Alliance ( United States) at Newport News, Virginia, sank in the James River below Newport News at 37°04′24″N 76°32′35″W / 37.0732°N 76.5431°W / 37.0732; -76.5431 (CSS Florida (cruiser)) after her seacocks were opened.[50]

29 November

List of shipwrecks: 29 November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage to Matagorda, Texas, the 100-ton schooner, possibly named Carrie Mair, was forced aground and destroyed by the gunboat USS Itasca ( United States Navy) on the coast of Texas about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of De Crow’s Point.[51]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1864
ShipCountryDescription
Beatrice  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 342-gross ton screw steamer, a blockade runner bound from Nassau in the Bahamas, to Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo that included artillery shells, was destroyed on the coast of South Carolina off Charleston, but sources differ on the date and circumstances of her destruction. According to one account, she was captured by picket boats of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron ( United States Navy) on 27 November, then was wrecked on Morris Island while under control of a U.S. Navy prize crew, becoming a total loss;[1] according to another source, she took several shell hits from U.S. Navy warships and ran aground on Drunken Dick Shoal on 29 November, then was boarded by several boatloads of U.S. Navy sailors who captured 30 of her 35 crew and burned her.[52]
Belle  United Kingdom The schooner foundered in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[53]
City of Buffalo  United States The 2,026-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[53]
CSS Danube  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The floating battery was sunk as a blockship in the Spanish River gap in Mobile Bay on the coast of Alabama.[54]
Jennie Hubbs  United States The 220-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near New Albany, Indiana. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[37]
Queen of Perth unknown The 96-ton schooner was wrecked on the Taranaki coast, New Zealand in early November.[7]
Torch Lake  United States The 20-ton screw steamer foundered at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.[55]

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1864
  2. ↑ wrecksite.eu SV Empress Theresa (+1864)
  3. 1 2 Gaines, p. 14.
  4. 1 2 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Chickamauga. 1864. Captain John Wilkinson."
  5. 1 2 Gaines, p. 140.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 56.
  7. 1 2 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 106.
  8. ↑ wrecksite.eu SV A. J. Bird (+1864)
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 108.
  10. ↑ wrecksite.eu Arcole (+1864)
  11. 1 2 3 4 Gaines, p. 161.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 102.
  13. 1 2 Gaines, p. 109.
  14. ↑ wrecksite.eu SV T. D. Wagner (+1864)
  15. ↑ wrecksite.eu SV Vapor (+1864)
  16. 1 2 3 4 Gaines, p. 159.
  17. ↑ Gaines, pp. 159-160.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gaines, p. 160.
  19. ↑ Gaines, pp. 160-161
  20. ↑ Gaines, pp. 162-163.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 Gaines, p. 163.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 164.
  23. ↑ Gaines, p. 165.
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah. 1864-1865. Captain James I. Waddell"
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 Project Muse: Appendix. List of Prizes Taken by the CSS Shenandoah. Kept by Lt. William C. Whittle, Jr.
  26. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 22.
  27. ↑ Gaines, p. 98.
  28. ↑ Gaines, p. 45.
  29. ↑ Gaines, p. 158.
  30. ↑ Gaines, p. 176.
  31. ↑ Gaines, p. 13.
  32. 1 2 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 107.
  33. ↑ Gaines, p. 16.
  34. ↑ Gaines, p. 79.
  35. 1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  36. ↑ Gaines, p. 99.
  37. 1 2 Gaines, p. 136.
  38. ↑ Gaines, p. 194.
  39. ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
  40. ↑ Gaines, p. 138.
  41. ↑ Gaines, p. 188.
  42. ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
  43. ↑ Gaines, p. 183.
  44. ↑ Gaines, p. 104.
  45. ↑ Gaines, p. 30.
  46. ↑ Gaines, p. 181.
  47. ↑ beyondthecrater.com 150 Years Ago Today: Explosion of Butler’s HQ Ship Greyhound: November 27, 1864
  48. ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
  49. ↑ Gaines, p. 9.
  50. ↑ Gaines, p. 180.
  51. ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
  52. ↑ Gaines, p. 141.
  53. 1 2 Gaines, p. 55.
  54. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Danube
  55. ↑ Gaines, p. 57.

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