The list of shipwrecks in September 1863 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1863.
10 September
List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Arkansas |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 223-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[7] |
Bracelet |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 169-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces. Her wreck was removed by the snagboat C. B. Reaves ( United States) in 1906.[8] |
Chester Ashley |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 192-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[9] |
Highland Lassie |
New Zealand |
The 160-ton brig was wrecked on a sandspit inside the mouth of the New River while en route from Port Chalmers to Invercargill, New Zealand.[10] |
Julia Roane |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[11] |
Little Rock |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 183-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[11] |
St. Francis No. 3 |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[12][13] |
Tahlequah |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War: The 92-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by the Confederates on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[13] |
13 September
List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Hiawatha |
United States |
American Civil War: The 767-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, in a fire set by Confederate agents.[15] |
Imperial |
United States |
American Civil War: The 907-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, in use as a hospital boat, was burned on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, in a fire set by Confederate agents.[16] |
Jessie K. Bell |
United States |
American Civil War: The 325-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, in a fire set by Confederate agents.[17] |
Jupiter |
United Kingdom |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner was aground in Wassaw Sound on the coast of Georgia when the gunboat USS Cimarron ( United States Navy) discovered her. After Jupiter′s crew failed in their attempts to scuttle her, Cimarron captured her.[14] |
Post Boy |
United States |
American Civil War: The 348-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, in a fire set by Confederate agents.[18] |
14 September
List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Spirit |
Unknown |
The vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Maranhão, Brazil, with the loss of Captain John Fry Found and several other members of her crew. |
23 September
List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1863
Ship | Country | Description |
Alliance |
United States |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, captured by a Confederate States Navy small boat expedition on 19 September while carrying a cargo of sutler′s stores during a voyage to Port Royal, South Carolina, ran aground in Old Haven Creek or Milford Haven in Mathews County, Virginia, while under the control of a Confederate prize crew and was burned by the Confederates after the gunboat USS Thomas Freeborn ( United States Navy) opened fire on her.[14][22] |
Phantom |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The 500-ton screw steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of arms, gin, whiskey, lead, cannons, rifle muskets, other arms, and other Confederate government stores was chased ashore at Rich Inlet or New Topsail Inlet on the coast of North Carolina by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Connecticut ( United States Navy). Her crew set fire to her and abandoned ship. Confederate sharpshooters killed a U.S. Navy landsman approaching her to attempt to put out the fire, and Connecticut then destroyed her. Her wreck later broke in half after bein shelled by U.S. Navy warships.[23][24] |
Unidentified schooner |
Confederate States of America |
American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was run aground in Virginia at Milford Haven or Old Haven, then burned to prevent her capture when the armed tugs USS Anacostia and USS Tulip and gunboat USS Thomas Freeborn (all United States Navy) arrived on the scene.[25] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 73.
- ↑ "Matenga, Huria (1840?-1909)", natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ↑ "The wreck of the Delaware", nzhistory.govt.nz. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 92–94.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 196.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 11.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 8.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 8-9.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 9.
- 1 2 Ingram & Wheatley, p. 95.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 10.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: St. Francis No. 3
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 12.
- 1 2 3 4 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863
- ↑ Gaines, p. 96.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 97.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 98.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 114.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 170.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 173.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 175.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Phantom
- ↑ Gaines, p. 126.
- 1 2 Gaines, p. 192.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 118.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 66.
- ↑ Gaines p. 29.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 28.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 102.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 39.
- ↑ Gaines p. 109.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 92.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 107.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 42.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 95. Some sources claim that the wreck occurred in late August.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 81.
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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1867 |
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1868 |
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1869 |
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