List of shipwrecks in October 1865

The list of shipwrecks in October 1865 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1865.

October 1865
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 Unknown date

3 October

List of shipwrecks: 3 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Panola  United States The 89-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in either Grand Bayou or Bayou Goula in Louisiana.[1]
Reindeer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand A bottle was found near the Waiongara River mouth in December containing a note claiming that the ketch had foundered while en route from Auckland to Wanganui within sight of Mount Egmont, written by the lone survivor of a crew of four. Neither he nor the wreckage were ever found.[2]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Clipper  United States The 242-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned 70 miles (113 km) above Mobile, Alabama, with the loss of eight lives.[3]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Alpha  United States The 107-ton screw steamer exploded in Albemarle Sound on the coast of North Carolina.[4]
Duncan Dunbar  United Kingdom The clipper struck a reef at Rocas Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean, 269 miles (433 km) northeast of Recife, Brazil, and sank. Good discipline and seamanship enabled the full complement of some 80 passengers and crew to be rescued after 10 days on a barren islet.[5]
Kororarika United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The cutter was holed in Hauraki Gulf and abandoned. The crew survived, making for Auckland in the ship's dinghy.[6]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Enterprise  United States The 26-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River below Red Wing, Minnesota.[7]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Atlantic No. 2  United States The 53-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Black Warrior River or Tombigbee River at Demopolis, Alabama.[3]
Tycoon  United States The 332-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Tiptonville, Tennessee.[8]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Atlantic  United States The 1,054-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean at 36°03′N 72°30′W / 36.050°N 72.500°W / 36.050; -72.500 (Atlantic) with the loss of 48 lives.[9]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Brilliant  United States The 440-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at New Madrid, Missouri, after an oil lamp exploded on board. Sixty-five people on board escaped to shore.[10]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Bostona No. 2  United States The 304-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Craigs Bar on the Ohio River below Cincinnati, Ohio, and above Carrollton, Kentucky. She later was refloated.[11]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
USS Nettle  United States Navy The 50-ton sidewheel tug sank in the Mississippi River after colliding with a United States Navy ironclad warship.[12]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Annie  United States The 350-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground on Fig Island in Georgia to avoid sinking after she struck a snag in the Savannah River. She later was refloated.[13]
Majestic  United States The 201-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Point Coupee, Louisiana.[14]
Yosemite  United States Carrying 350 passengers and nearly a ton of gold and silver, the 631-, 1,317-, or 1,319-ton steamer sank after her starboard boiler exploded just after she left the wharf at Rio Vista, California. One source reports that at least between 42 and 51 people died, while another claims that 150 died and 50 were injured. The ship later was refloated, repaired and lengthened, and returned to service.[15]

23 October

List of shipwrecks: 23 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Bulldog  Royal Navy The paddle sloop-of-war was stranded on a reef off Cap Haitien, Haiti, during a British punitive expedition against Haiti. After efforts to free her failed, she was burned and blown up to prevent her capture by Haitian forces.[16][17]
D. H. Mount  United States The 321-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off the United States East Coast between Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, with the loss of 24 lives.[18]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Republic  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Savannah, Georgia, with the loss of 34 lives.[19]

27 October

List of shipwrecks: 27 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
R. B. Taney  United States The 301-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Mobile, Alabama.[20]

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Edith  United Kingdom The brig dragged her anchors and came ashore at Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall, England.[21]

30 October

List of shipwrecks: 30 October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Thomas Martin  United States Bound for Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of lumber, the schooner drifted ashore on the coast of South Carolina at Folly Island north of Georgetown. She had been adrift since she was dismasted on 23 October in a storm in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina between Cape Lookout and Frying Pan Shoals.[22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1865
ShipCountryDescription
Sangalier United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Tasmania The schooner left Hokitika, New Zealand, on 20 October and was not sighted again. She had a crew of four.[6]
Undine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner stranded on a bank at Greymouth during October. She was washed clear and wrecked when the bank gave way during a flood the following month.[6]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Gaines, p. 71.
  2. ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 116.
  3. 1 2 Gaines, p. 1.
  4. ↑ Gaines, p. 113.
  5. ↑ The wreck of the Duncan Dunbar. The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 January 1866, at Trove
  6. 1 2 3 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Gaines, p. 94.
  8. ↑ Gaines, p. 104.
  9. ↑ Gaines, pp. 12-13.
  10. ↑ Gaines, p. 92.
  11. ↑ Gaines, p. 134.
  12. ↑ Gaines, p. 100.
  13. ↑ Gaines, p. 46.
  14. ↑ Gaines, p. 69.
  15. ↑ Gaines, p. 31.
  16. ↑ wrecksite.eu HMS Bulldog (+1865)
  17. ↑ Beeton′s Men of the Age and Annals of the Time, Being An Account of Eminent Persons, and a Record of Events, London: War, Lock, and Tyler, 1874, p. 184
  18. ↑ Gaines, p. 13.
  19. ↑ Gaines, pp. 49-50.
  20. ↑ Gaines, p. 6.
  21. ↑ Larn, Richard; Larn, Bridget (1997). Shipwreck Index of the British Isles. Volume 1. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
  22. ↑ Gaines, p. 156.

Bibliography


Ship events in 1865
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