List of shipwrecks in October 1864
The list of shipwrecks in October 1864 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1864.
October 1864 | |||||||
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8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
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22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | |
29 | 30 | 31 | Unknown date |
1 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Condor | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer USS Niphon ( |
4 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Result | The schooner was wrecked at Sulphur Creek, New Zealand.[3] |
6 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Constance (or Constance Decima) | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 140-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner en route from Nova Scotia to Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of weapons and possibly gold, was sunk off the coast of South Carolina.[1][4] One account reports her to have been forced aground and sunk off the Isle of Palms by the gunboat USS Wamsutta ( | |
Henry S. Dickerson | The 57-ton screw steamer exploded on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, killing five people.[5] |
7 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annie | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, was run aground at New Inlet, North Carolina, by the armed tug USS Aster ( | |
USS Aster | American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed tug ran hard aground on the Carolina Shoals near New Inlet off North Carolina. She was set on fire the next day to prevent her capture by Confederate forces, and eventually exploded.[6] |
8 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Picket Boat No. 2 | American Civil War: The torpedo boat ran aground on a sandbar in Great Wicomico Bay, Virginia, while under attack by Confederate guerrillas and was forced to surrender. When the armed steamer USS Commodore Read and the USS Mercury (both |
9 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Roanoke | American Civil War: The mail steamer was burned in the Atlantic Ocean off St. George's, Bermuda, by Confederate agents. The Confederates had seized control of her on 29 September, soon after she departed Havana, Cuba, for a voyage to New York City, and had shot and thrown overboard one member of her crew during the incident.[1][8][9][10] |
10 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry | Carrying assorted cargo, the brig was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island.[11] | |
Leighton | The bark was capsized by a tornado in the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the loss of one life.[12] |
16 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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J. C. Irwin | The 145-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked by a boiler explosion with the loss of between eight and 11 lives on the Cumberland River at Big Eddy Towhead in Kentucky, 10 miles (16 km) above Eddyville, Kentucky.[13][14] |
19 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cornelia Terry | Unknown | The vessel was lost off the coast of Oregon in Yaquina Bay.[15] |
W. I. Maclay | The 245-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River below St. Louis, Missouri.[16] |
21 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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General Ward | The 70-ton screw steamer exploded at Shanghai, China, leaving only one survivor.[17] |
22 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flora | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 437-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner carrying assorted cargo, was run ashore off Charleston, South Carolina, by the gunboats USS Mingoe and USS Wamsutta, the armed tug USS Geranium, and picket launches (all |
23 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flamingo | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 283-, 284-, or 446-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina.[1][19] One source claims she was destroyed there by gunfire from Union artillery at Fort Putnam, Fort Strong, and Battery Chatfield and ships of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron ( |
26 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Kenosha | The 645-ton screw steamer burned at Sarnia, Ontario.[20] | |
Sophie McLane (or Sophie McLean) | The paddle steamer was sunk by a boiler explosion at Suisun Bay Wharf in California, with 13 people killed or missing. She later was salvaged.[21] |
27 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Albemarle | American Civil War: While at anchor in the Roanoke River at Plymouth, North Carolina, the ironclad ram was sunk by a United States Navy launch crew using a spar torpedo. The U.S. Navy later raised her and repaired her hull, but sold her for scrap without placing her in service.[22] | |
John A. Fisher | The 122-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Carroll Island below St. Louis, Missouri.[23] |
28 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Empress | American Civil War: The 854-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at Island No. 34 by cavalry under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest ( |
29 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alina | American Civil War: The 574-ton bark, carrying a cargo of railway iron to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on her maiden voyage, was captured and scuttled in the North Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( | |
Mazeppa | American Civil War: The 184-ton sternwheel paddle steamer, en route from Cincinnati, Ohio, towing two barges carrying flour, shoes, blankets, arms, hardtack, clothing, and other goods, was abandoned on the west bank of the Tennessee River in Tennessee after she suffered damage from Confederate States Army artillery fire while passing Paris Landing. When United States Navy gunboats approached that night, Confederate forces burned her and the two barges 2 miles (3.2 km) above and across from Fort Henry.[28] |
30 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna | American Civil War: Damaged earlier by artillery batteries under the command of Lieutenant general Nathan Bedford Forrest ( | |
Universe | The 399-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Plum Point, Tennessee, with the loss of 17 lives.[27] | |
Two unidentified barges | The empty barges were captured with the sidewheel paddle steamer Venus ( |
31 October
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aphrodite | Transporting 510 U.S. Navy recruits from New York City to the blockading squadrons off the coast of the Confederate States of America in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, the chartered 1,098-ton screw steamer ran aground on a shoal in Core Sound on the coast of North Carolina 12 nautical miles (22 km) northeast of Cape Lookout. The armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Keystone State and USS Shokokon (both | |
David Hughes | American Civil War: Carrying government supplies and towing a barge loaded with stores, the steamer was captured and burned by Confederate guerrillas on the Cumberland River 15 miles (24 km) above Clarksville, Tennessee.[31] | |
Dunleith | The 155-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Island No. 67.[32] | |
Emma L. Hall | American Civil War: The 492-ton bark, carrying a cargo of sugar and molasses from Cárdenas, Cuba, to New York City, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New York within 50 nautical miles (93 km) of her destination by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga ( | |
Shooting Star | American Civil War: The 947-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New York at 39°20′N 70°00′W / 39.333°N 70.000°W by the merchant raider CSS Chickamauga ( | |
Unidentified barge | American Civil War: Loaded with stores and under tow by the steamer David Hughes ( |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Amily | The screw steamer sank in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[37] | |
Belle Peoria | The sidewheel paddle steamer ran onto a bar in the Missouri River in the Dakota Territory 5 miles (8 km) above the mouth of the Cheyenne River.[38] | |
C.S.M. | American Civil War: The steamer sank at a wharf in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in mid-October after a collision with the steamer Mary ( | |
West Wind | American Civil War: Disabled by Confederate States Army artillery fire and captured by Confederate forces, the 350-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, on either 16 or 17 October.[40] | |
Three unidentified schooners | American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooners as blockships in the Roanoke River in North Carolina.[41] |
References
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1864
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 116-117.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 106.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 144.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 114.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 186.
- ↑ Anonymous, "FROM BERMUDA: The Seizure of the Roanoke Trial and Release of Lieut. Brain.," nyimes.com, November 14, 1864
- ↑ Anonymous, "Figure - Burning of the United States' Mail-Steamer Roanoke, off St. George's, Bermuda, on the 9th of October," London Illustrated News, undated.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 22.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 140.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 23.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 54-55.
- ↑ Collins, Lews, and Richard H. Collins, History ofentucky, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998, p. 143.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 138.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 104.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 35.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 145-146.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 145.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 56.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 30-31.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 112-113.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 98.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
- ↑ 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"
- ↑ Project Muse: Appendix. List of Prizes Taken by the CSS Shenandoah. Kept by Lt. William C. Whittle, Jr.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 17.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 161, 164.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 198-199.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 164-165.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 159.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 93.
- 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."
- ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 16.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 163.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 55.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 105.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 2.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 108.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 133.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.
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