The list of shipwrecks in October 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1862.
15 October
List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1862
Ship | Country | Description |
G. L. Brockenborough |
Confederate States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, an apparent blockade runner, was found scuttled in the Appalachicola River in Florida by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Fort Henry ( United States Navy). She was refloated and repaired by Union forces and placed in service as USS G. L. Brockenborough ( United States Navy).[14] |
Lamplighter |
United States |
American Civil War: The 365-ton bark or brig (sources differ), bound from New York City to Gibraltar with a cargo of tobacco, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Nova Scotia at 41°32′47″N 59°17′45″W / 41.54639°N 59.29583°W / 41.54639; -59.29583 (Lamplighter) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][4] |
Lone Star |
Confederate States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned at Taylor's Bayou, Texas, by boat crews from the gunboat USS Rachel Seaman and the armed steamer USS Kensington (both United States Navy).[3][15] |
Stonewall |
Confederate States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned at Taylor's Bayou, Texas, by boat crews from the gunboat USS Rachel Seaman and the armed steamer USS Kensington (both United States Navy).[3][16] |
22 October
List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1862
Ship | Country | Description |
Adelaide |
Confederate States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Wilmington, North Carolina, for Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of turpentine, cotton, and tobacco, the schooner was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina by the gunboat USS Ellis ( United States Navy). Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her, but crewmen from Ellis boarded her and extinguished the fire. Ellis took the captured schooner under tow, but Adelaide kept running aground, and Ellis finally destroyed her about one mile (1.6 km) north of New Topsail Inlet, North Carolina.[3][20] |
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862
Ship | Country | Description |
Alderman Thompson |
United Kingdom |
The barque was wrecked at Cardigan, Wales. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec, British North America, to Cardigan.[27] |
Alleghany (or Alleghanian) |
United States |
American Civil War: Bound from Baltimore, Maryland, to London, England, with a cargo of guano, the 1,120- or 1,400-ton full-rigged ship was boarded and set afire sometime between 28 and 30 October by the crews of three Confederate States Navy small boats while at anchor in the Chesapeake Bay near Gwynn's Island, 5 to 12 miles (8 to 19 km) off the mouth of Virginia′s Rappahannock River. After the Confederates fled, USS T. A. Wood and the gunboat USS Crusader (both United States Navy) extinguished the flames, but the Confederates returned and set another fire that destroyed the ship.[3][28] |
Cadboro |
Unknown |
The full-rigged ship was lost near Port Angeles, Washington Territory.[29] |
Conchita |
Confederate States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned off the coast of Louisiana or Texas near Calcasieu Pass and Sabine Pass.[30] |
General Taylor |
United States |
The 462-ton screw steamer was stranded at Sleeping Bear Point on the Lake Michigan coast of Michigan.[31] |
Mary Ann |
Confederate States |
American Civil War: The schooner was captured and burned on the Calcasieu River in Louisiana in early October by the steamer USS Kensington ( United States Navy).[32] |
Tom Cochrane |
United States |
The 14-ton screw steamer was stranded at Sturgeon Point on the Lake Huron coast of Michigan.[31] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 37.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gaines, p. 32.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 28.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 180.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Rusk
- ↑ Anonymous, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905, pp. 274-275.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 33.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 93, 106.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 61.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 64.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Hannah
- ↑ Gaines, p. 40.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 135.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 151-152.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 44.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 112.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 13.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 91.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 103.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 104.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 175.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 194.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 167-168.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 81.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 70.
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