List of shipwrecks in June 1862

The list of shipwrecks in June 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1862.

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Louisiana Bell	Confederate States	The 89-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was repaired and returned to service.[1]

3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Carrie Ladd	United States	The 128-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Columbia River in Oregon about 18 miles (29 km) below the Cascades Rapids.[2]

4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Arrow	Confederate States Army	American Civil War: The gunboat was burned on the West Pearl River in Louisiana to prevent her capture by Union forces.

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Havana (or Havanah)	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The screw steamer was set afire by her crew at Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida to prevent her capture by the schooner USS Isilda ( United States Navy).[3]
Sovereign	Confederate States	American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground and was captured by a United States Navy tug near Island Number 37 on the Mississippi River. She was refloated and placed in Union service.[4]
CSS Tennessee	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad ram was burned prior to launching at Memphis, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Union forces.

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Colonel Lovell	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram sank in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, after being rammed by the sidewheel rams Queen of the West and Monarch (both  United States Army). Six or seven of her crew survived.[5]
Gordon Grant	United States	The 41-ton screw steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.[6]
CSS General Beauregard	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram exploded and sank with heavy loss of life in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, after a shot by the casemate ironclad USS Benton ( United States Army) hit her boiler, scalding many of her crew. Her survivors were taken prisoner by Benton and the sidewheel ram USS Monarch ( United States Army)
CSS General Bragg	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram ran aground in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, and was captured by Union forces. She was refloated, repaired, and placed in service as USS General Bragg ( United States Navy)
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: Heavily damaged by shell hits and burning, the cottonclad ram ran aground in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, and was abandoned by her crew. She burned to the waterline and exploded when the flames detonated her ammunition magazine.
CSS General Sterling Price	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram sank on a sandbar in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, after colliding with the ram CSS General Beauregard ( Confederate States Navy) and being rammed by the casemate ironclad USS Benton ( United States Army). She was seized by Union forces, raised, repaired, and placed in service as USS General Price ( United States Navy).[7]
CSS General Sumter	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: Badly damaged, the cottonclad ram ran aground on the Arkansas shore of the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, and was captured by Union forces. She was refloated, repaired, and placed in service as USS Sumter ( United States Navy).
CSS Little Rebel	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: Hit in her boilers by gunfire from the casemate ironclad USS Carondelet ( United States Army), the cottonclad ram was rammed and driven ashore by the sidewheel ram USS Monarch ( United States Army) ≈on the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, Abandoned by her surviving crew, she was captured by Union forces, refloated, repaired, and placed in service as USS Little Rebel ( United States Navy).

8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Sereta	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: The 30-ton schooner, loaded with a cargo of fruit and salt, was burned by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy), which discovered her aground and abandoned off Shallotte Inlet, North Carolina.[8][9]

9 June

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Scuppernong	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, loaded with a cargo of timber intended for use in building a steamer, was burned below a bridge in Indian Town, North Carolina, by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Commodore Perry ( United States Navy).[9]

16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Anna Smith	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, lumber, and other goods, the schooner was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida, by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( United States Navy.[10]
Dudley	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of turpentine and rosin, the 57-ton sloop was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida, by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( United States Navy.[11]
Eliza G.	Confederate States	American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][12]
CSS Mary Patterson	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][13]
CSS Maurepas	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The gunboat, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[8][14]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Cecile	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo for the Confederate States Navy of cannons, ammunition wagons, knapsacks, harnesses, rifle-muskets, and gunpowder on a blockade-running voyage, the 460-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in ten minutes after striking a reef off the Abaco Islands in the Northeast Providence Channel in the northern Bahamas near the Abaco Lighthouse and Hole in the Wall.[15]
Cortes	United States	The 1,117-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Shanghai, China.[16]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Agnes	United States	The 299-ton screw steamer burned in Virginia.[17]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Independence	United States	The schooner was lost north of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[18]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Emily	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all  United States Navy), the schooner, carrying a cargo of salt, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near Fort Caswell while trying to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt. Her crew abandoned ship, and a U.S. Navy boat crew boarded her and set her on fire. After the fire went out, her crew reboarded her, but fled to shore when U.S. Navy boats again approached her. U.S. Navy vessels then towed her off and burned her to the waterline.[8][19]

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Ellen	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all  United States Navy), the schooner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina while trying to run the Union blockade at the Bald Head Channel and enter port at Wilmington. A boat crew from Mount Vernon then boarded and captured her and Victoria attempted to tow her off, but she sank.[8][19]
CSS General Earl Van Dorn	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The sidewheel ram was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces. She blew up when the flames reached her magazine.[8][20][21]
CSS General Polk	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The timberclad sidewheel gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[21]
CSS Livingston	Confederate States Navy	American Civil War: The screw gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[21][22]
Monticello	Unknown	American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran aground on the coast of Alabama between 6 and 8 miles (10 and 13 km) east of Fort Morgan. Her crew burned her.[23]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Modern Grace	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Cambridge, the blockade runner, carrying a cargo of rifled cannon, other weapons, and gunpowder, ran aground while trying to enter port at Wilmington, North Carolina. Cambridge then destroyed her.[8]
Wave	Confederate States	American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi City, Mississippi, with a cargo of flour, the sloop was captured and burned by the brig USS Bohio ( United States Navy) in the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Alabama.[24]

28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Capitol	Confederate States	American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Yazoo River at Liverpool, Mississippi.[25]
USS Island Belle	United States Navy	American Civil War: The armed tug ran aground on Gilliam’s Bar in the Appomattox River near City Point, Virginia, and was burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[26]

29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Ann	United Kingdom	American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of gunpowder and musket caps, the steamer ran aground on the coast of Alabama at the mouth of Mobile Bay. After Confederate forces salvaged some of her cargo, she drifted free of the shore on 30 June and was captured by Union forces.[27]
White Swan	New Zealand	The screw steamer, carrying 65 passengers including many parliamentary leaders including Premier William Fox, left Napier for Wellington on 28 June. On 29 June, the ship hit a reef near Uruti Point on the Wairarapa coast, holing a forward compartment. The ship was run ashore to prevent loss of life, but many irreplaceable government papers were lost.[28][29][30]

30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1862

Ship	Country	Description
Thomas Snook	United Kingdom	The brig collided with the vessel City of Carlisle (flag unknown) in the English Channel off Hastings, England, with the loss of her master and two other members of her crew.[31]

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