List of shipwrecks in October 1863

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

October 1863
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29 30 31 Unknown date

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Catahoula  United States American Civil War: The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
Chancellor  United States American Civil War: The 392-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[1]
Forest Queen  United States American Civil War: The 419-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[1]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Concordia  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner was burned by her crew on the Calcasieu River at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by an armed cutter and gig from the gunboat USS Granite City (1863) ( United States Navy).[2][3]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Argus  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor USS Osage ( United States Navy).[2][4]
Pushmataha  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo consisting of claret, gunpowder, and a naval ram, the blockade runner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River while trying to enter the Mermentau River. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her, after which a boat crew from the gunboat USS Cayuga ( United States Navy) boarded her, removed all of her cargo except two kegs of gunpowder, and blew her up.[2][5]
Robert Fulton  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 158-ton sidewheel steamboat was captured on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor USS Osage ( United States Navy) and was burned at the river′s mouth in Louisiana.[2][6]
Unidentified schooner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River by a boat crew from the gunboat USS Cayuga ( United States Navy). The schooner′s crew blew her up before the boat crew could board her.[2][7]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
J. O.  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Whitford Point, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[8]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Bold Hunter  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, bound for Calcutta, India, from Dundee, Scotland, with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French West Africa near 19°N 21°W / 19°N 21°W / 19; -21 (Bold Hunter) by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy).[2][9]
CSS Pontchartrain  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[10]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Douro  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, rosin, tobacco, and turpentine, the steamer was chased ashore and destroyed on the coast of North Carolina near New Inlet by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nansemond ( United States Navy).[2]<re name=gainesp117/>
Elvira  United States The 222-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at the foot of Widow Beard’s Island below St. Louis, Missouri.[11]
USS Madgie  United States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat foundered in heavy seas off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina, while under tow by the screw steamer USS Fahkee ( United States Navy).[2][12]
Rover Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran ashore at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.[13]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Columbia  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned to the waterline at Ape's Hole near the head of Pocomoke Sound, 15 miles (24 km) from Drummondtown, Virginia, by a Union small boat expedition.[14]
Jane  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her crew on the coast of Texas off the Brazos River to prevent her capture by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Tennessee ( United States Navy). She blew up, and the explosion was heard 30 miles away in Galveston, Texas.[15]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Lady Jackson  United States The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the White River in Arkansas.[16]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
H. L. Hunley  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina, while making a mock attack during training in Charleston Harbor. The accident killed her entire eight-man crew, including her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley. She was refloated and returned to service.

15-16 October

List of shipwrecks: 15-16 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
White  United States American Civil War: The tug was destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[17]
Unidentified dredge  United States American Civil War: The dredge was destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[18]
Unidentified vessels  United States American Civil War: The vessels were destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[18]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
A. B. Noyes  United States American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate forces in Tampa Bay off Fort Brooke, Florida.[19]
Jane  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her own crew off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico off the Rio Grande to prevent her capture by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Tennessee ( United States Navy).[2]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Kate Dale  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her moorings in the Hillsborough River 2 miles (3.2 km) above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Adela and the gunboat USS Tahoma (both  United States Navy).[2][20]
Rover  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by a boat crew from the schooner USS T. A. Ward.[2]
Scottish Chief  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her mooring in the Hillsborough River 2 miles (3.2 km) above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Adela and the gunboat USS Tahoma (both  United States Navy).[2][21]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Mars Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina.[12]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Venus  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Nassau in the Bahamas and trying to run the Union blockade from Bermuda with a cargo of rifle muskets, cartridges, lead, dry goods, bacon, coffee, rum, and medicine and a model of a railroad, the 365-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near the Cape Fear River with one crewman killed after taking four shell hits and beginning to take on water while under fire by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nansemond and the armed screw steamers USS Niphon and USS Iron Age (all  United States Navy). U.S. Navy sailors boarded her and tried to refloat her but were unsuccessful, so they blew up her boilers and set her afire on the morning of 22 October, wrecking her.[2][22]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Mist  United States American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned by Confederate guerillas at her mooring at Ship Island on the coast of Mississippi.[2][23]
Oregon  United States The 1,004-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the North River off New York City a few minutes after being almost cut in two in a collision with City of Boston ( United States). One of Oregon′s passengers suffered minor injuries, but no lives were lost.[24][25]

22-23 October

List of shipwrecks: 22-23 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Alexander Cooper  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: While anchored by a wharf on the coast of North Carolina about 6 miles (10 km) up New Topsail Inlet, the schooner was burned by two boats from the gunboat USS Shokokon ( United States Navy).[26]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
'"Water Lily United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The ketch ran ashore and was wrecked at Sumner Spit, New Zealand.[27]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Unidentified mortar boat  United States Navy The mortar boat capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at the mouth of the canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi, while under tow by the steamer USS Petrel ( United States Navy).[28]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Key West No. 2  United States The 206-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois.[29]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Kate  United States The schooner was lost at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[15]
Union  United States The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.[30]
Two unidentified schooners  United States The two schooners – one of which may have been Kate – foundered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas during a storm.[31]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1863
ShipCountryDescription
Fox  United States The 102-ton steamer burned on Lake Erie near Newport, Michigan.[32]
Hannibal  United States The 497-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River in Louisiana five miles (8 km) above Donaldsonville.[33]
Water Witch  United States Carrying a mixed cargo, the 369-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Huron less than two nautical miles (3.7 km) off Oscoda, Michigan, near Saginaw Bay at 44°25′N 83°19′W / 44.417°N 83.317°W / 44.417; -83.317 (Water Witch).[34]
Unidentified schooners and boats  Confederate States of America American Civil War: A Union expedition destroyed 150 schooners and boats in Mathews County, Virginia, between 4 and 9 October.[35]

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Gaines, p. 92.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863
  3. ↑ Gaines, p. 62.
  4. ↑ Gaines, p. 59.
  5. ↑ Gaines, p. 72.
  6. ↑ Gaines, p. 73.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 76.
  8. ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Gaines, p. 13.
  10. ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Pontchartrain
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
  12. 1 2 Gaines, p. 123.
  13. ↑ Gaines, pp. 154-155.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 78.
  15. 1 2 Gaines, p. 169.
  16. ↑ Gaines, p. 10.
  17. ↑ Gaines, pp. 190, 194.
  18. 1 2 Gaines, p. 194.
  19. ↑ Gaines, p. 37.
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 42.
  21. ↑ Gaines, p. 44.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 130.
  23. ↑ Gaines p. 70.
  24. ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
  25. ↑ Anonymous, "COLLISION ON THE RIVER; The Steamers City of Boston and Oregon. THE OREGON RUN INTO AND SUNK THE PASSENGERS SAVED," nytimes.com, October 23, 1863.
  26. ↑ Gaines, p. 113.
  27. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 95.
  28. ↑ Gaines, p. 105.
  29. ↑ Gaines, p. 98.
  30. ↑ Gaines, p. 172.
  31. ↑ Gaines, p. 173.
  32. ↑ Gaines, p. 55.
  33. ↑ Gaines, p. 66.
  34. ↑ Gaines, p. 56.
  35. ↑ Gaines, p. 193.

Bibliography


Ship events in 1863
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