List of shipwrecks in September 1864
The list of shipwrecks in September 1864 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1864.
September 1864 | ||||||
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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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 | Unknown date |
1 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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William V. Gillum | The 70-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico during a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Matamoros, Mexico. Her crew were rescued a few days later by the schooner Cory ( |
2 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Scioto | The 389-ton screw steamer collided with Arctic (flag unknown) and sank in Lake Erie at Dunkirk, New York.[2] |
3 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Brandywine | American Civil War: The receiving ship was destroyed by an accidental fire at the Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia.[3] |
4 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes Louisa | American Civil War, Union blockade: The 578-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on Hog Island in the Bahamas while outbound for a blockade-running voyage to Charleston, South Carolina. She apparently became a total loss[4] |
5 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry Fitzhugh | Laid up at the mouth of the Licking River in Kentucky, the 217-ton sternwheel paddle steamer capsized when the river flooded. Her cabin broke free after she capsized.[5] |
9 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fawn | American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned by sailors from the ironclad ram CSS Albemarle ( |
10 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Florie | The 349-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost when she struck a wreck on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.[7] |
12 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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John J. Roe | American Civil War: Carrying the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment ( |
13 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alice Price (or Alice C. Price) | American Civil War: A Confederate mine sank the sidewheel transport in the St. Johns River in Florida near Mandarin Point.[9] |
18 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary | The barque was wrecked in Uda Gulf in the western Sea of Okhotsk during a gale. She was sold to Otto Wilhelm Lindholm, who salvaged some of the wreck the following year.[10][11] |
19 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Industrious | The brig was wrecked off Port Eynon, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Llanelli, Glamorgan to Malta.[12] | |
Island Queen | American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned in Lake Erie off Middle Bass Island, Ohio, by Confederate agents aboard the captured steamer Philo Parsons ( | |
Philo Parsons | American Civil War: The steamer was captured by Confederate agents in Lake Erie. Later in the day, they burned her off Sandusky, Ohio. |
21 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gertrude | The 70-ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered at College Point in Louisiana with the loss of six lives.[13] |
23 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Antelope | American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was beached in a sinking condition after striking a snag in the Mississippi River above New Orleans, Louisiana, and subsequently was stripped and abandoned.[14][15] | |
Lavina Logan | The 145-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost on the Mississippi River.[16] |
25 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lynx | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton, was set ablaze off Wilmington, North Carolina, by gunfire from the screw steamers USS Howquah and USS Niphon and the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham (all |
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lynx | American Civil War, Union blockade: Chased by the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham and the armed screw steamers USS Howquah and USS Niphon (all | |
Mandamis (or Mondamin) |
American Civil War: The bark, in ballast, was captured and destroyed in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of South America by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( | |
Mary Celestia | American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage with a cargo of bacon, rifle-muskets, and ammunition, the 314-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a rock off Bermuda just south of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse and sank in less than eight minutes in 60 feet (18 meters) of water at 32°12′10″N 64°42′15″W / 32.20278°N 64.70417°W.[20] |
27 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS North Carolina | American Civil War: Suffering from a number of bad leaks due to poor hull construction, the casemate ironclad foundered near the mouth of the Cape Fear River off Smithville, North Carolina at 33°54′49″N 78°1′8″W / 33.91361°N 78.01889°W. | |
Unidentified boats | American Civil War, Union blockade: A Union flotilla destroyed 17 Confederate boats on the Potomac River off Charles County, Maryland.[21] |
29 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Night Hawk | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, was forced aground and burned on the coast of North Carolina off Fort Fisher by the screw steamer USS Niphon ( | |
Osprey | The 40-ton schooner was wrecked at Blind Bay on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand while carrying timber from Port Fitzroy to Auckland.[22] |
30 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ogdensburg | The 352-ton screw steamer sank after colliding with the schooner Snow Bird (flag unknown) at Fairport, Ohio.[23] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Picket Boat No. 2 | During a voyage from New York City to Hampton Roads, Virginia, the screw torpedo boat sank on rocks on the coast of New Jersey near Bergen Point. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[24] | |
Platte Valley | The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Devil's Island. She later was refloated.[25] | |
Three Brothers | The schooner hit the sandbar at the mouth of Mangawhai Harbour. Two passengers were washed overboard and drowned.[26] | |
Washoe | The 385- or 500-ton steamer was sunk by a boiler explosion above the Hog's Back in Steamboat Slough in California on 4 or 5 September, killing 36 people and seriously injuring another 36, several of whom later died. She later was refloated and repaired.[27] |
References
Notes
- ↑ Gaines, p. 53.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 110.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 176.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 18.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 54.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 179-180.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 119.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 98
- ↑ Gaines, p. 37.
- ↑ The Friend (Vol. 21, No. 12, 5 December 1864).
- ↑ Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing.
- ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 65.
- 1 2 3 4 usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1864
- ↑ Gaines, p. 59.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 99.
- ↑ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Lynx (sidewheel steamer)
- ↑ Gaines, p. 123.
- ↑ Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Florida. 1862-1863. Captain John Newland Maffitt. CSS Florida. 1864. Captain Charles M. Morris"
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 21-22.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 193.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 106.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 55.
- ↑ Gaines, pp. 109, 186
- ↑ Gaines, p. 101.
- ↑ Ingram & Wheatley, p. 105.
- ↑ Gaines, p. 31.
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.
Ship events in 1864 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Ship commissionings: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Shipwrecks: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
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