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The list of shipwrecks in 1863 includes any ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1863.

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January

1 January

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1863
Ship State Description
CS Neptune (or CSS Neptune Camp)  Confederate States Army American Civil War, Battle of Galveston: The armed cottonclad tug was sunk by United States Navy warships in Galveston Harbor off Galveston, Texas, when a shell passed through her hull. She suffered eight killed and 20 wounded, and three of the wounded later died of their injuries.[1]
USS Westfield  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Galveston: The armed sidewheel paddle steamer, serving as flagship of the naval squadron blockading Galveston, Texas, ran aground on a sandbar in Galveston Harbor off Galveston, while in action with the gunboat CS Bayou City and the armed tugboat CS Neptune (both  Confederate States Army). She was blown up to prevent her capture by Confederate forces, killing the fleet commander, Commander William B. Renshaw, and several members of her crew when the explosives detonated sooner than they expected.[2]

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1863
Ship State Description
Jacob Musselman  United States American Civil War: The 144-ton sternwheel transport was captured by troops of the Arkansas Cavalry Company ( Confederate States Army) on the Mississippi River opposite Memphis, Tennessee. The Confederates took her 15 miles (24 km) upstream to Bradley's Landing, Arkansas, where they removed her cargo and burned her.[3][4]
Unidentified flatboat Unknown American Civil War: The flatboat was burned by Confederate States Army forces at Bradley's Landing, Arkansas.[4]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1863
Ship State Description
Little Magruder  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was destroyed on the Pamunkey River at White House, Virginia, by an expedition consisting of the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the gunboat USS Commodore Perry (both  United States Navy), the tug May Queen ( United States Army), and troops of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment, and 115th New York Infantry Regiment (all  Union Army).[5]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War: A ferryboat, two sloops, a large scow, two barges, and four pontoon boats were destroyed on the Pamunkey River at White House, Virginia, by an expedition consisting of the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the gunboat USS Commodore Perry (both  United States Navy), the tug May Queen ( United States Army), and troops of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 6th New York Cavalry Regiment, and 115th New York Infantry Regiment (all  Union Army).[6]

8 January

List of shipwrecks: 8 January 1863
Ship State Description
F. W. Bailey Unknown Becalmed and dragging her anchor, the 711-ton full-rigged ship drifted onto rocks on the coast of California 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Point Lobos and was wrecked with the loss of 10 lives.[7]

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1863
Ship State Description
Sparkling Sea  United States American Civil War: Carrying 70 men of the 25th Battery, New York Light Artillery, and 106 horses, the transport ran aground without loss of life off the coast of Florida on Ajax Reef, about 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) from Carysfort Reef Light. The gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy) removed the horses and some stores. By 18 January, Sparkling Sea was a total wreck.[8]

11 January

List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1863
Ship State Description
Grampus No. 2  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of coal and towing five coal barges, the 352-ton armed paddle steamer was captured on the Mississippi River just off the wharf at Memphis, Tennessee, by troops of the Arkansas Cavalry Company ( Confederate States Army). The Confederates ran her five miles upriver to Mound City, Arkansas, with the barges, where they set her on fire and cast her adrift on the Mississippi, and she and the barges sank.[3][9]
USS Hatteras  United States Navy
Nineteenth-century illustration of USS Hatteras (right) sinking under fire from CSS Alabama (left).
American Civil War, Action off Galveston Light: The gunboat, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was sunk in combat with the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy) in the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, Texas, with the loss of two lives. Alabama took her 118 survivors prisoner.[10]

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1863
Ship State Description
Charter  United States American Civil War: The 114-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[11]
Trio  United States American Civil War: Carrying 400 wounded Union Army troops and a cargo of cotton, the 150-ton sternwheel hospital steamer was captured and burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[12]
W. H. Slidell  United States American Civil War: The armed tinclad steamer was captured and burned by troops of the cavalry brigade of Major General Joseph Wheeler ( Confederate States Army) on the Nashville, Tennessee, side of the Cumberland River 5 miles (8 km) from Harpeth Shoals.[13]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1863
Ship State Description
USS Columbia  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed screw steamer ran aground at Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina. After a gale struck on 15 January, the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy) rescued 30 men from the wreck during the storm on 15–16 January before Confederate artillery drove her off. Confederate forces captured the wreck on 17 January and burned it.[3][14]
Parthonia  United States American Civil War: The 261-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate States Army troops on the Cumberland River in Tennessee. They had captured her on the river the previous day at the head of Harpeth Shoals.[12]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1863
Ship State Description
CSS J. A. Cotton  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel partial ironclad gunboat was scuttled and burned by her crew in Bayou Teche off Brashear City, Louisiana, to serve as a blockship and to prevent her capture by Union forces after she was badly damaged in combat with United States Navy gunboats.[15][16]

18 January

List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1863
Ship State Description
Tropic  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 323-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, was destroyed by an accidental fire while attempting to run the Union blockade at Charleston, South Carolina. Her passengers and crew were rescued by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Quaker City ( United States Navy).[3][17][18]

19 January

List of shipwrecks: 19 January 1863
Ship State Description
Estelle  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of honey and molasses from Santa Cruz to Boston, Massachusetts, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico near Cuba near 23°34′N 83°50′W / 23.567°N 83.833°W / 23.567; -83.833 (Estelle) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][20]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1863
Ship State Description
Liberty  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: After breaking loose from her moorings at Cornfield Harbor, Maryland, and drifting into the Coan River in Virginia, the barge was captured and burned in the Coan River by Confederates aboard the captured barge J. C. Davis ( United States).[5]
Unidentified schooner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner heavily laden with supplies, was forced aground at New Topsail Inlet or Stump Inlet (sources disagree) on the coast of North Carolina by the armed screw steamer USS Daylight ( United States Navy). She then was wrecked by Union gunfire, taking 20 to 25 shell hits.[3][21]

22 January

List of shipwrecks: 22 January 1863
Ship State Description
Corris Ann  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Matanzas, Cuba, the brig was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea near Cárdenas, Cuba, between Cay Piedras and Cay Mono by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy). While burning, she drifted ashore inside the harbor at Cárdenas.[3][19][20]
J. C. Davis  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: After breaking loose from her moorings at Cornfield Harbor, Maryland, and drifting into the Coan River in Virginia, where she was captured by Confederate forces, the barge was run aground and burned in the Coan River by the armed schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy).[22]
Windward  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of molasses from Matanzas, Cuba, to Portland, Maine, was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea off the east coast of Cuba by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][23]

23 January

List of shipwrecks: 23 January 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Morning Light  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed sloop was set afire by her crew to prevent her capture by the approaching gunboats USS Cayuga and USS New London (both  United States Navy) and sank in the Gulf of Mexico just off Sabine Pass on the coast of Texas. Previously USS Morning Light ( United States Navy), she had been captured off Sabine Pass on 21 January by the cottonclad steamers CSS Josiah Bell and CSS Uncle Ben (both  Confederate States Navy).[3][24]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1863
Ship State Description
Golden Rule  United States American Civil War: The 255-ton bark, carrying a cargo of food and medicine consigned to the Panama Railway Company and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and a full set of sails and spars for the brig USS Bainbridge ( United States Navy), was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea near Haiti by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1863
Ship State Description
Chastelain
(or Chastelaine) 		 United States American Civil War: The 293-ton brig, on a voyage in ballast from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, was captured and burned in the Caribbean Sea south of Hispaniola about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south of Alto Velo Island at 17°19′50″N 72°21′00″W / 17.33056°N 72.35000°W / 17.33056; -72.35000 (Chastelain) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][20][25]

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1863
Ship State Description
Aeolus  United States The brig was wrecked on the coast of California 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the Humboldt Bay Bar.[26]
Elizabeth  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of salt, was captured and burned at the mouth of Jupiter Inlet on the coast of Florida by the gunboat USS Sagamore ( United States Navy).[3][27]
Mary Ann Unknown The schooner-rigged steamer was wrecked on the coast of California 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the Humboldt Bay Bar. She was refloated on 29 June.[28]

30 January

List of shipwrecks: 30 January 1863
Ship State Description
George Sand German Confederation Carrying US$13,000,000 in gold and silver bars and specie from California, the barque foundered in 360 feet (110 meters) of water on the Praetus Shoals in the South China Sea 180 nautical miles (333 km) southwest of Hong Kong.[29][30]
USS Isaac Smith  United States Navy American Civil War: The screw steamer ran aground under fire from Confederate States Army troops on the Stono River above Legareville, South Carolina, and was captured by the Confederates.[3]

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1863
Ship State Description
Heinrich Sorensen  Russia The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. Her twelve crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[31]
Nina  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 338-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer, a blockade runner, foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean between Nassau in the Bahamas and Charleston, South Carolina, in late January.[32]
Noonday  United States The 2,000-ton clipper sank in 240 feet (73 meters) of water within an hour of striking Fanny Rock – subsequently renamed Noonday Rock – in the Farallon Islands off the coast of California on 1 or 2 January. The pilot boat Relief ( United States) rescued her crew.[28]
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America The sloop was wrecked in King's Creek in Virginia.[6]

February

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1863
Ship State Description
Industry  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 200-ton schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of salt, was forced aground on the coast of North Carolina 5 miles (8 km) north of New Topsail Inlet by the armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon ( United States Navy) and burned by her crew. Union forces then scuttled her.[3][33]

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1863
Ship State Description
A. W. Baker  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 112-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground by her crew and then captured and burned in the Mississippi River 15 miles (24 km) below the mouth of the Red River of the South by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West ( United States Navy).[3][34]
Berwick Bay  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 64-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of cotton, flour, molasses, and sugar, was captured and burned in the Mississippi River about 15 miles (24 km) below the mouth of the Red River of the South by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West ( United States Navy).[3][35]
Marie Banks  United States Bound for the shipyard at Fort Monroe, Virginia, with a cargo of rigging, the schooner was wrecked on the coast of Virginia 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Cape Henry.[5]
Moro  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 132-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of hogs, pork, and salt, was captured and burned in the Mississippi River 15 miles (24 km) below the mouth of the Red River of the South by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West ( United States Navy).[3][36]
Palmetto  United States American Civil War: The 172-ton schooner, bound from New York City to San Juan, Puerto Rico, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 27°18′27″N 66°10′00″W / 27.30750°N 66.16667°W / 27.30750; -66.16667 (Palmetto) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3][37]
William H. Starke  Confederate States of America Carrying corn and other cargo, the steamer sank in 30 feet (9.1 meters) of water in the Savannah River in Georgia 20 miles (32 km) below Augusta.[38]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified barge or boat  United States American Civil War: The barge or boat was burned by Confederate States Army forces on the Cumberland River near Dover, Tennessee.[39]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Selma  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel gunboat struck an underwater obstruction while trying to cross the Dog River Bar in Mobile Bay, Alabama, and sank in 8 feet (2.4 meters) of water. The Confederates refloated her on 13 February, repaired her, and returned her to service.[40]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1863
Ship State Description
Advance  United States The 39-ton sternwheel towboat struck a snag and sank in the Wabash River at Hutsonville, Illinois.[41]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1863
Ship State Description
USS Glide  United States Navy The tinclad sternwheel gunboat was caught fire while under repair on the Mississippi River one mile (1.6 km) below Cairo, Illinois. She was cast adrift and floated one to two miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) downstream before grounding on the Kentucky side of the river near Fort Holt and burning to the waterline, with some shells on board exploding. Two people were killed.[42]
HMS Orpheus  Royal Navy
Painting The Wreck of HMS Orpheus, by Richard Brydges Beechey (1808–1895).
The Jason-class corvette ran onto a sandbar and was destroyed by waves at Whatipu, Manukau Harbour, New Zealand. There were 189 dead and 70 survivors.

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1863
Ship State Description
Isabel  United States The 1,115-ton sidewheel paddle steamer , carrying 20 passengers – one of them transporting US$8,000 in gold – and a cargo of dry goods, provisions, leather, and hay, a large amount of express matter, and a safe containing US$5,000, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey near Barnegat with the loss of four lives almost immediately after colliding with North Star (flag unknown).[43][44]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1863
Ship State Description
Mary E. Pindar  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: After being captured by the bark USS Gemsbok ( United States Navy) on 22 September 1862, the schooner was lost in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina near Federal Point.[45]

13 February

List of shipwrecks: 13 February 1863
Ship State Description
Jacob Bell  United States
CSS Florida burns Jacob Bell in a Harper's Weekly illustration from 1863.
American Civil War: The clipper, carrying 41 people and a cargo of camphor, chow chow, firecrackers, matting, and tea, was burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the West Indies southwest of Bermuda at 25°03′N 67°00′W / 25.050°N 67.000°W / 25.050; -67.000 (Jacob Bell) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy). Florida had captured Jacob Bell, bound from Foochow, China, to New York City with 43 passengers and a cargo of tea, firecrackers, matting, and camphor, on 12 February.[19][3][46]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1863
Ship State Description
CSS American Diver  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Also known as CSS Pioneer II, the prototype submarine sank in Mobile Bay, Alabama, while under tow in stormy weather. No lives were lost.[47]
Dan  United States The 112-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River.[48][49]
De Soto  United States American Civil War: The 1,200-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the Red River of the South below Fort Taylor, Louisiana, and lost her rudder. Unable to steer, she drifted 15 miles (24 km) downriver, then was burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. A coal barge she was towing also was burned.[50][51]
USS Queen of the West  United States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the Red River of the South at Fort Taylor, Louisiana, and was captured by Confederate forces.[3]
Unidentified vessel Unknown American Civil War: Aground with cargo aboard on a shoal in Bulls Bay off the coast of South Carolina, the vessel was burned by the bark USS Restless ( United States Navy).[52]

17 February

List of shipwrecks: 17 February 1863
Ship State Description
Hercules  United States American Civil War: Towing seven coal barges in fog on the Mississippi River off Hopefield, Arkansas, opposite Memphis, Tennessee, the 151-ton sternwheel tug was captured by troops of the Arkansas Cavalry Company ( Confederate States Army) with the loss of one of her crewmen killed. Union gunboats then sank her and one of the barges with gunfire, after which the Confederates set her on fire and she burned to the water's edge.[3][53]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1863
Ship State Description
Elma  United States During a voyage from New York City to Baltimore, Maryland, with an assorted cargo, the schooner burned on Virginia′s East River.[54]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1863
Ship State Description
Laconic  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Helwick Shoal in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Wales, to Tenerife in the Canary Islands.[31]
Swan  United States The 487-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer foundered in the Gulf of Mexico during a voyage from Key West, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana.[55]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1863
Ship State Description
Golden Eagle  United States American Civil War: The 1,121-ton clipper, carrying a cargo of guano from Howland Island to Cork, Ireland, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 29°28′N 44°58′W / 29.467°N 44.967°W / 29.467; -44.967 (Golden Eagle) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3][46]
Olive Jane  United States American Civil War: The 360-ton bark, bound from Bordeaux, France, to New York City with a cargo of wine, brandy, and delicacies, was captured and burned by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1863
Ship State Description
Merrimac  United States The 100-ton screw steam tug capsized with the loss of 13 lives while trying to cross the Humboldt Bar at Humboldt Bay on the coast of California; there were five survivors. She then grounded twice more while floating upside down. She later was salvaged.[28]

23 February

List of shipwrecks: 23 February 1863
Ship State Description
USS Kinsman  United States Navy American Civil War: The ironclad river gunboat struck a snag and sank in Berwick Bay near Brashear City, Louisiana, while transporting a detachment of troops. Six men were reported missing.[3]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1863
Ship State Description
Ben Bolt  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The barge was captured and destroyed in Back Creek on the York River in Virginia by two cutters from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska ( United States Navy).[56]
Era No. 7  United States American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River 20 miles (32 m) below Warrenton, Mississippi.[57]
USS Indianola  United States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground in a sinking condition on the Mississippi River above the Red River of the South after being rammed by the rams CSS Webb and CSS Queen of the West. She then was captured by Confederate forces.[3]
Mary Jane  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 30-ton sloop was captured and destroyed in Back Creek on the York River in Virginia by two cutters from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska ( United States Navy).[5]
Queen of the Wave  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 775-bulk-ton screw steamer, a blockade runner with a cargo of tin sheets, quinine, morphine, opium, calico, and printing paper, was forced to run aground near the mouth of the North Santee River on the coast of South Carolina by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Conemaugh ( United States Navy). Her crew set her on fire and abandoned ship. Conemaugh blew her up, breaking her in half, on 7 March.[3][58]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1863
Ship State Description
USS Indianola  United States Navy
USS Indianola explodes in a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in Harper's Weekly in 1863.
American Civil War: Confederate salvage crews working to refloat the sidewheel paddle steamer – aground in a sinking condition on the Mississippi River above the Red River of the South since 24 February – panicked when they received word that a large Union gunboat was approaching. They set fire to Indianola, which burned to the waterline and blew up when flames reached her magazines. The "gunboat" turned out to be an unarmed barge disguised to look like a warship and sent downstream to trick the Confederates into abandoning or destroying Indianola.[3]

28 February

List of shipwrecks: 28 February 1863
Ship State Description
Era No. 5  United States American Civil War: After Union forces had dismantled the 115-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, her parts were scattered and sunk in the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, Mississippi.[57]
Rattlesnake  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: After the Confederate privateer ran aground in the Ogeechee River in Georgia, the monitor USS Montauk ( United States Navy) destroyed her with gunfire.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1863
Ship State Description
Beeswing  United States The schooner was wrecked on the coast of California near the Golden Gate with the loss of eight lives.[59]
J. R. Whiting (or J. R. Whitney) Unknown The schooner was lost on the Noyo River in California on 13 or 16 February. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[60]
Relief (or Pilot Boat No. 2)  United States The pilot boat capsized in the breakers at the San Francisco Bar with the loss of four crewmen.[61]
CSS Slidell  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The gunboat was destroyed on the Tennessee River sometime prior to 6 February.[62]

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1863
Ship State Description
Atalanta  United States American Civil War: The 141-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a bridge on the Cumberland River at Clarksville, Tennessee. The impact caused her cabin to separate from her hull.[11]
John A. Parks  United States American Civil War: The 1,047-ton full-rigged ship, on a voyage from Hallowell, Maine, to Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, carrying a cargo of white pine lumber, was captured and burned by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy) in the North Atlantic Ocean near 29°15′N 38°20′W / 29.250°N 38.333°W / 29.250; -38.333 (John A. Parks).[25][3][63]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1863
Ship State Description
Frederick Greff  United States Army The 46-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded.[64]
Ida  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the schooner USS James S. Chambers ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of liquor, the schooner was beached by her crew at Sanibel Island, Florida, after which the crew of James S. Chambers destroyed her.[3][65]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1863
Ship State Description
City of Peterborough  United Kingdom The vessel collided with the barque Tuspan ( France) about 200 nautical miles (370 km) south of the Isles of Scilly. There were five dead and eight survivors[66]
Josephine  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop, attempting to run the Union blockade, ran aground near Fort Morgan at the mouth of Mobile Bay on the coast of Alabama while trying to evade the gunboat USS Aroostook and screw steamer USS Pocahontas (both  United States Navy). Aroostook and Pocahontas then destroyed her with gunfire.[3]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1863
Ship State Description
Star of Peace  United States American Civil War: The 941-ton clipper, bound from Calcutta, India, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of hides and 1,000 tons of saltpeter, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3][37]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1863
Ship State Description
Petee  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 6-ton sloop, attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, was captured and destroyed off Indian River Inlet, Florida, by the bark USS Gem of the Sea ( United States Navy).[3][67]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1863
Ship State Description
Senator  United States The 121-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked at the entrance to the harbor at San Pedro, California, with the loss of two lives.[61]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1863
Ship State Description
Aldebaran  United States American Civil War: The schooner, carrying a cargo of provisions and clocks, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean at 29°18′N 51°04′W / 29.300°N 51.067°W / 29.300; -51.067 (Aldebaran) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][68]
CSS Natchez  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Confederate forces burned the 800-ton cottonclad gunboat on the Yazoo River in Mississippi 1 mile (1.6 km) below Burtonia Lnding and about 25 miles (40 km) above Yazoo City, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by approaching United States Navy gunboats.[69][70]
Thirty-fifth Parallel  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer, disabled since striking trees on 10 March, was burned by her crew on the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by the approaching ironclad gunboat USS Baron DeKalb and river gunboat USS Chillicothe (both  United States Navy).[69][71][72][73]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1863
Ship State Description
USS Mississippi  United States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Port Hudson: The paddle frigate, heavily damaged and disabled by Confederate artillery fire, ran aground and was abandoned on the Mississippi River at Port Hudson, Louisiana. She floated back into the current, drifted downstream, and exploded violently when the flames reached her magazines.[19][3]
Jemima  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 50-ton schooner was captured and destroyed on the York River at Milford Haven, Virginia, by boat crews from the armed screw steamer USS Crusader ( United States Navy).[22]
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner in ballast, was captured and destroyed on the York River at Milford Haven, Virginia, by boat crews from the ared screw steamer USS Crusader ( United States Navy).[3][74]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1863
Ship State Description
Prinzesa  United Kingdom Carrying US$140,000 in U.S. gold bullion and specie, the schooner foundered in shallow water off the northern end of Moreton Island off Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia.[75]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Georgiana  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: Operating as a blockade runner with a cargo of merchandise, ammunition, cannons, Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle muskets, swords, military supplies, and gold, the 580-ton screw steamer was badly damaged by the gunboat USS Wissahickon ( United States Navy) and deliberately run aground on Long Island on the coast of South Carolina. Her entire crew and all of her passengers escaped. Sailors from Wissahickon then boarded her and set her on fire to prevent her recapture by Confederate forces. She burned for several days, suffering several explosions.[76]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1863
Ship State Description
Bio Bio  United States The 822-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana.[35]

23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1863
Ship State Description
Kingfisher  United States American Civil War: The 120-ton whaler, a schooner with a crew of 23, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and Africa near the equator at 01°26′S 26°30′W / 1.433°S 26.500°W / -1.433; -26.500 (Kingfisher) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3][32]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1863
Ship State Description
Emma Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: Under the control of a United States Navy prize crew, the 70-ton schooner ran aground off the coast of Florida near the mouth of the Ocklockonee River in Apalachee Bay and was burned to prevent her recapture by Confederate forces. She had been captured on 23 March by a boat expedition from the bark USS Amanda ( United States Navy).[77]

25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1863
Ship State Description
Charles Hill  United States American Civil War: The 699-ton full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England, to Montevideo, Uruguay, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil near the equator at 01°23′N 26°30′W / 1.383°N 26.500°W / 1.383; -26.500 (Charles Hill) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3][78]
USS Lancaster  United States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel ram was sunk by Confederate artillery in the Mississippi River off Port Hudson, Louisiana.
Nora  United States American Civil War: The schooner, carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England, to Calcutta, India, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil near the equator at 1°12′49″S 26°32′45″W / 1.21361°S 26.54583°W / -1.21361; -26.54583 (Nora) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][79]

29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1863
Ship State Description
Absalom  United Kingdom The ketch was wrecked without loss of life on the South Spit at the Heads while attempting to exit the Macleay River in New South Wales, Australia. She and her cargo were a total loss.
CSS Vicksburg  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 635-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, lacking her machinery and serving as a wharf boat at Vicksburg, Mississippi, caught fire, broke free of her moorings, and drifted down the Mississippi River past Union forces. The fire destroyed her.[80][81]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1863
Ship State Description
M. J. Colcord  United States American Civil War: The bark, carrying a cargo of provisions from New York City to Cape Town, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1863
Ship State Description
Star of the West  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Vicksburg Campaign: The paddle steamer, also referred to as CSS St. Philip, was scuttled as a blockship in the Tallahatchie River near Greenwood, Mississippi.
Young Harry  United States Bound for Matamoros, Mexico, with a cargo of flour, clothes, and other goods, the brig was wrecked on the coast of Texas, 6 miles (10 km) from the mouth of the Rio Grande.

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1863
Ship State Description
USS Alligator  United States Navy While under tow from the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., to Port Royal, South Carolina, by the armed steamer USS Sumpter ( United States Navy), the submarine was cut loose and lost in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm.[82]
Helen  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of corn, the sloop was captured and burned by a boat expedition from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Fort Henry, the gunboat USS Sagamore, and the brig USS St. Lawrence (all  United States Navy) on the coast of Florida at the mouth of Bayport Harbor off Bayport.[83][65]
Union  United States Bound from Hilton Head to Beaufort, South Carolina, with a cargo of rifle muskets and gunpowder, the 139-ton sternwheel transport was in a sinking condition with her sternwheel breaking up when the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Maratanza ( United States Navy) rescued her crew and set her on fire. Maratanza and the sloop-of-war USS Sacramento ( United States Navy) then fired two 11-inch (279-mm) shells into her, and she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean a 0.5 nautical mile (0.9 km) off New Inlet, North Carolina.[84]
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the schooner was burned by the Confederates to prevent her capture by a boat expedition from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Fort Henry, the gunboat USS Sagamore, and the brig USS St. Lawrence (all  United States Navy) in Bayport Harbor off Bayport, Florida.[85]

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1863
Ship State Description
Marion Unknown The 900-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Doubleshot Key in the Bahamas.[86]
Natchez  Confederate States of America The 714-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Castleman, Mississippi.[70]

6 April

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Marion  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The 258-ton sidewheel transport sank in 30 seconds after accidentally drifting onto a mine she had laid earlier at the mouth of the Ashley River near the mouth of Wappoo Creek off Charleston, South Carolina. The mine exploded, ripping out her bottom and killing one of her officers.[87][88]

7 April

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1863
Ship State Description
USS Barataria  United States Navy American Civil War: After the ironclad gunboat became stuck on a snag in Lake Maurepas at the mouth of the Amite River in Louisiana, her crew burned her to prevent her capture by Confederate forces. She exploded when the flames reached her magazine.[3][34]
Walpole  United States The 145-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on Minots Ledge off Cohasset, Massachusetts, with the loss of two lives.[89]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1863
Ship State Description
Berosa  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean east of Florida at 29°50′N 079°50′W / 29.833°N 79.833°W / 29.833; -79.833 (Berosa).[90]
Julius D. Morton  United States The 472-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the St. Clair River near Monroe, Michigan.[91]
USS Keokuk  United States Navy
Harper's Weekly illustration from 1863 of USS Keokuk sinking.
American Civil War, First Battle of Charleston Harbor: The experimental ironclad screw steamer sank 1,300 yards (1,189 meters) off the south end of Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, at 32°41′36″N 79°52′19″W / 32.69333°N 79.87194°W / 32.69333; -79.87194 (USS Keokuk) after taking 90 hits from Confederate artillery the previous day, 19 of them at or below the waterline.[92]
R. C. M. Lovell  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sutler′s stores for the Union Army, the 45-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River above Clarksville, Tennessee, by the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army). The Confederates executed her captain and eight African Americans who were on board.[12]
Saxonia  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sutler′s stores for the Union Army, the 60-ton screw steamer was captured and burned on the Cumberland River near Clarksville, Tennessee, by the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[12]

9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1863
Ship State Description
George Washington  United States Army American Civil War: The 243-ton armed sidewheel transport ran aground in the Coosaw River in South Carolina one mile (1.6 km) east of the Port Royal Ferry near Chisholm Island and was ambushed by elements of the Nelson Light Artillery, the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and the 11th South Carolina Infantry Regiment (all  Confederate States Army). During the ensuing action, Confederate gunfire damaged her rudder and struck her ammunition magazine, starting a fire that burned her to the waterline before she sank in shallow water. Her crew and Union Army soldiers on board abandoned her after suffering two killed, ten wounded, and two missing.[93]

10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1863
Ship State Description
J. D. Clarke  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The sidewheel transport was scuttled in the Mississippi River in Louisiana outside the mouth of the Red River of the South by the sloop-of-war USS Hartford ( United States Navy). Hartford had captured her the previous day.[94][16]

11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1863
Ship State Description
Annie  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the sloop was captured and scuttled on the Crystal River in Florida by the schooner USS Sea Bird ( United States Navy).[95]]
CSS Queen of the West  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Attacked by the sidewheel paddle steamers USS Arizona, USS Calhoun, and USS Estrella (all  United States Navy) on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana, the ram was set afire by a shell hit from Calhoun and was abandoned by her crew. She drifted downriver and exploded when the fire reached her magazine.
Stonewall Jackson  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: After the armed screw steamer USS Flag, the armed schooner USS G. W. Blunt, and the gunboat USS Huron (all  United States Navy) damaged her with gunfire as she attempted to run the Union blockade into Charleston, South Carolina, from Nassau in the Bahamas carrying 54 passengers and crew and a cargo of rifled guns, ammunition, saltpeter, shoes, tin ingots, lead ingots, and copper ingots, the 862- or 872-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground off the coast of South Carolina in the Rattlesnake Channel or North Channel near Sullivan's Island. Flag and Huron burned her there at daybreak on 12 April.[3][96]

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1863
Ship State Description
Golden Liner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade:The blockade runner was lost on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.[97]

13 April

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Stevens  Confederate States Navy The incomplete gunboat was burned on Bayou Teche, two miles (3.2 km) below New Iberia, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[98]

14 April

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Diana  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The gunboat was burned on Bayou Teche near Franklin, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[99]
CSS Hart  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The 175-ton ironclad sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled in Grand Lake in the vicinity of Camp Bisland on Bayou Teche in Louisiana to prevent her capture by Union forces. An intelligence report by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Clifton ( United States Navy) on 28 July 1863 reported that Confederate forces had almost refloated Hart, but had sunk her again upon the appearance of U.S. Navy gunboats.[100][101]

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1863
Ship State Description
Lafayette  United States American Civil War: The whaler was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean near Fernando de Noronha by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3]

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1863
Ship State Description
Henry Clay  United States Army American Civil War: The 257-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire on the Mississippi River by Confederate artillery fire while passing Vicksburg, Mississippi. Her crew cut loose a barge she was towing that had Union Army soldiers aboard, then abandoned ship without loss of life. Henry Clay floated downstream as far as New Carthage, Mississippi, before burning to the waterline.[9]
Prioress  United States The 393-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio, with the loss of one life.[102]

17 April

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1863
Ship State Description
Alliance  United States The 136-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Devil Island in the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[103]
Blue Hammock  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 74-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[35]
Commonwealth  United States American Civil War: The 1,300-ton clipper, bound from New York City to San Francisco, California, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][104]
CSS Darby  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The armed steamer was burned in Louisiana at on Bayou Teche near Bayou Fusilier above Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[105]
Kate Corey  United States American Civil War: The 132-ton whaler was burned in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Fernando de Noronha by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy). Alabama had captured Kate Corey on 15 April.[25][3][78]
Louisa Hatch  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship was burned by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy) in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Fernando de Noronha. Alabama had captured Louisa Hatch and her cargo of 1,100 tons of coal in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on 4 April.[3][25][78]
Louise  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 343- or 369-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[106]
Uncle Tommy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamboat was burned in Louisiana at the junction of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fusilier near Breaux Bridge to prevent her capture by Union forces.[107]

18 April

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1863
Ship State Description
Inez  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 4-ton schooner, attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt and shoe thread, was captured and destroyed off Indian River Inlet, Florida, by the bark USS Gem of the Sea ( United States Navy).[3][65]

22-23 April

List of shipwrecks: 22-23 April 1863
Ship State Description
Tigress  United States Army American Civil War: The steamer was struck by Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the Mississippi River and ran aground She broke in half and sank after taking additional shell hits. Her passengers and crew were rescued by J. W. Cheeseman ( United States).[3][108]

23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1863
Ship State Description
Henrietta  United States American Civil War: The bark, bound from New York City or Baltimore, Maryland (sources disagree) to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a cargo of candles, flour, and lard, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3][46]
Hyack Unknown The bark was wrecked on a reef in the Pacific Ocean off Cape Mendocino, California.[60]

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1863
Ship State Description
Nye  United States American Civil War: The 211-ton whaler, a bark bound from a whaling expedition in the Pacific Ocean to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with a cargo of whale oil and whalebone, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil at 05°45′15″S 31°53′00″W / 5.75417°S 31.88333°W / -5.75417; -31.88333 (Nye) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][26]
Oneida  United States American Civil War: The clipper, bound from Shanghai, China, to New York City with a cargo of tea worth US$1 million, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][37]

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1863
Ship State Description
Antoinette Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by Union forces on the coast of South Carolina at Murrell's Inlet.[109]
Dictator  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, carrying a cargo of coal, was burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands at 25°45′00″N 23°15′30″W / 25.75000°N 23.25833°W / 25.75000; -23.25833 (Dictator) by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy). Georgia had captured Dictator on 25 April.[3][46]
Dorcas Prince  United States American Civil War: The 699-ton full-rigged ship, bound for Shanghai, China, from New York City with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean east of Natal, Brazil, at 07°37′S 31°30′W / 7.617°S 31.500°W / -7.617; -31.500 (Dorcas Prince) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][78]
George Chisholm Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by Union forces on the coast of South Carolina at Murrell's Inlet.[93]

27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1863
Ship State Description
Ada Hancock  United States While transferring 60 passengers and US$45,000 to the steamer Senator ( United States) in San Pedro Bay in the harbor at Wilmington, California, the steamer careened, admitting cold sea water into her engine room, which caused her boiler to explode. The explosion blew the ship to pieces down to her waterline, throwing some pieces of debris as far as one-half to three-quarters of a mile (0.8 to 1.2 km). At least 26 people died immediately, and of the 37 others who were injured, 23 later died.[26]
Anglo Saxon  United Kingdom Bound from Liverpool, England, to Quebec in dense fog with 444 or 445 passengers and crew aboard (sources disagree), the 1,715-gross ton screw steamer ran aground in Clam Cove about four miles (6.5 km) north of Cape Race, Newfoundland, and broke up within an hour, killing 237 or 256 people (sources disagree).[110]
Golden Liner  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The large schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of flour, brandy, sugar, and coffee, was boarded and destroyed in Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by boat crews from the armed screw steamer USS Monticello and the armed schooner USS Matthew Vassar (both  United States Navy).[3][111]
USS Preble  United States Navy American Civil War: The sloop-of-war accidentally caught fire, was abandoned, exploded, and sank in Pensacola Bay off Pensacola, Florida.[67]

28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1863
Ship State Description
USS Lily  United States Navy American Civil War: While attempting to cross the bow of the anchored gunboat USS Choctaw ( United States Navy) in the Yazoo River in Mississippi, the tug was swept onto Choctaw′s ram by the current and sank.
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with a cargo of salt, the schooner was burned in a creek near Magnolia Beach, South Carolina, by a Union landing party.[112]

30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1863
Ship State Description
Horizon  United States American Civil War: Transporting Company G of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery Regiment ( Union Army), the 315-ton sternwheel paddle steamer collided during the night of 30 April-1 May with the transport Moderator ( United States) and sank in the Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, Mississippi, killing two men and all 60 of the unit′s horses.[4][113]
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was run aground at St Joseph's Island, Texas.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date April 1863
Ship State Description
Cricket  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The ship was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[105]
Era No. 2  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The ship was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[114]
CSS Etiwan  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 132-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground on the coast of South Carolina near Fort Johnson in a sinking condition on 4, 6, or 7 June after a drifting mine exploded against her side in Charleston Harbor She was repaired and returned to service.[115]
Gossamer  United States American Civil War: The 144-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Union forces on Bayou Teche at Franklin, Louisiana.[116]
Josephine Wilcutt  United States The 86-ton schooner was wrecked on the coast of California at Newport.[60]
Newboy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The transport was destroyed on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.[117]

May

1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1863
Ship State Description
Two unidentified schooners  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: A boat expedition from the armed screw steamers USS Western World and USS Crusader (both  United States Navy) burned the schooners, which were aground and full of water on the York River at Milford Haven, Virginia.[3][74]

3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1863
Ship State Description
George Sturgess  United States American Civil War: The 47-ton screw tug and the two barges she was towing were set afire on the Mississippi River by Confederate artillery firing from Vicksburg, Mississippi.[118]
Minnesota  United States American Civil War: The 142-ton sternwheel towboat was towing three barges – one carrying sutler′s stores and the other two loaded with coal – when she was captured by Confederate forces on the Mississippi River at Argyle Landing, 3 miles (4.8 km) above Greenville, Mississippi. The Confederates destroyed her and all three barges.[119]
Sea Lark  United States American Civil War: The 973-ton clipper, bound from Boston, Massachusetts, or New York City (sources disagree) to San Francisco, California, with general cargo, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean near Bahia, Brazil, at 9°39′S 32°44′W / 9.650°S 32.733°W / -9.650; -32.733 (Sea Lark) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][26]
Union Jack  United States American Civil War: The 483-ton bark, bound from Boston, Massachusetts, for Shanghai, China, with general cargo and six passengers, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean near Bahia, Brazil, at 9°40′S 32°30′W / 9.667°S 32.500°W / -9.667; -32.500 (Union Jack) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][26]

4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1863
Ship State Description
Surprise  United States The 456-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire after colliding with Hu Quang (flag unknown) on the Yangtze River in China.[30]

5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1863
Ship State Description
Sallie List  United States The 212-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River 5 miles (8 km) above Kickapoo, Kansas. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[120]

6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1863
Ship State Description
Majestic  United States The 648-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Island Number Eight near Hickman, Kentucky.[121]

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1863
Ship State Description
Sophia  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: Disabled by a storm in the North Atlantic Ocean after being captured by the schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy), the schooner was abandoned at 38°30′N 69°00′W / 38.500°N 69.000°W / 38.500; -69.000 (Sophia) by her U.S. Navy prize crew, which was taken aboard the barque Aurora ( Italy). The abandoned wreck of Sophia was found later aground on Egg Island on the coast of Georgia.[122]

10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1863
Ship State Description
Hanover  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore and burned by boat crews from the gunboats USS Owasco and USS Katahdin (both  United States Navy) on the coast of Texas near Galveston.[3][123]

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified schooner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, by the gunboat USS Conemaugh ( United States Navy) and other United States Navy ships.[112]

13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1863
Ship State Description
Crown Point  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California, with assorted cargo, the clipper was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[3][19][104]
CSS J. F. Pargoud  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 338- or 522-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River adjacent to Fort Pemberton 3 miles (5 km) from Greenwood, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces. The Confederates burned the wreck on 14 July.[69][124][70]

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1863
Ship State Description
Amelia  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was abandoned and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with another prize ship and springing a serious leak during a storm while under tow off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The schooner Halitia ( United Kingdom) rescued her crew. The screw steamer USS Flag ( United States Navy) had captured Amelia when she attempted to run the Union blockade at Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of cotton on 8 May.[3][82]

17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1863
Ship State Description
Cuba  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner′s crew burned her in the Gulf of Mexico to prevent her capture by the sidewheel gunboat USS De Soto ( United States Navy).[3]

18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1863
Ship State Description
Isabel  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned nin the Gulf of Mexico near Fort Morgan, Alabama, by a boat crew from the screw steamer USS R. R. Cuyler ( United States Navy).[3]
USS Shepherd Knapp  United States Navy American Civil War: The armed full-rigged ship was wrecked on a coral reef in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, and was abandoned.[23]
Walcott Unknown The brig was lost at Bowens Landing, California.[125]

19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1863
Ship State Description
Norseman  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of cotton and possibly gold, the 49- or 197-ton screw steamer struck the wreck of the screw steamer Georgiana ( Confederate States of America) and sank in Maffitt's Channel near Isle of Palms off Charleston, South Carolina.[126]

21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1863
Ship State Description
Galveston Unknown The brig was stranded at Kents Point at Mendocino, California.[7]
CSS Mobile  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The screw steamer was burned – possibly while laid up and undergoing conversion into a gunboat – at Yazoo City, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[127]
CSS Republic  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Union forces found the charred remains of the sidewheel paddle steamer, under conversion to an ironclad ram when Confederate forces burned her to prevent her capture by Union forces, in the navy yard at Yazoo City, Mississippi.[128]

22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1863
Ship State Description
Golden Age  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the sidewheel paddle steamer as a blockship in the Yazoo River in Mississippi about 15 miles (24 km) below Fort Pemberton. Union forces later burned the wreck to the waterline.[69][129]
John Walsh  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the 809-ton sidewheel paddle steamer as a blockship in the Yazoo River in Mississippi 15 miles (24 km) below Greenwood. Later in the month, the armed sternwheel paddle steamer USS Forest Rose, armed sternwheel paddle steamer USS Linden, and tinclad steamer USS Petrel (all  United States Navy burned the wreck to the waterline.[69][129]
R. J. Lockland (or R. J. Lackland)  Confederate States of America American Civil War: As United States Navy gunboats approached, the 710-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned to the waterline and scuttled by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River 15 miles (24 km) below Greenwood, Mississippi, to block the channel and prevent her capture by Union forces.[69][130][131]
Magenta  United States The 424-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank without loss of life in a bend of the Missouri River below De Witt, Missouri. The vessel and her cargo both were a total loss.[120]
Scotland  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 567-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River 15 miles (24 km) below Greenwood, Mississippi, to block the channel and prevent her capture by Union forces. Union forces later burned her wreck to the waterline.[69][132][133]
Sea Bird  United States American Civil War: The schooner, loaded with a cargo of United States Navy coal, was captured and set afire by Confederate guerrillas on the Neuse River in North Carolina. The steamer Allison ( United States Army) found the burning schooner and completed her destruction after Allison′s crew had removed her cargo.[3][134]

23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1863
Ship State Description
Caroline Anderson  United States American Civil War: The schooner burned in the waters of Virginia. The armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion ( United States Navy) rescued her crew and fired 16 shells into her to scuttle her.[56]

25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1863
Ship State Description
S. Gildersleeve  United States American Civil War: The 848-ton full-rigged ship, bound for Calcutta, India, from London, England, with a cargo of coal from the United Kingdom, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off Bahia, Brazil, bear 12°04′00″S 35°10′45″W / 12.06667°S 35.17917°W / -12.06667; -35.17917 (S. Gildersleeve) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][26]

27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1863
Ship State Description
Charity  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned at Piney Point on the Yeocomico River in Virginia by boats from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion and the gunboat USS Eureka (both  United States Navy).[3][56]
CSS Chattahoochee  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat was sunk at her anchorage in the Chattahoochee River at Blountstown, Florida, by a boiler explosion, with the loss of 18 lives. She was refloated but never fully repaired.
USS Cincinnati  United States Navy American Civil War: The sternwheel casemate ironclad was sunk in the Mississippi River by gunfire from Confederate artillery at Vicksburg, Mississippi, suffering five killed and 14 wounded by Confederate gunfire and another 15 drowned or missing. She later was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[135]
Flight  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned on the Yeocomico River in Virginia by boats from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion and the gunboat USS Eureka (both  United States Navy).[3][136]
Gazelle  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned in the Yeocomico River in Virginia by boats from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion and the gunboat USS Eureka (both  United States Navy).[3][137]
USS G. L. Brockenborough  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was wrecked by a gale on the coast of Florida at St. George's Sound.[138]

28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1863
Ship State Description
Arctic  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: After being captured in the eastern branch of the Yeocomico River or Wicomico Creek in Virginia by the armed tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy), the schooner Was burned by the armed tug USS Thomas Freeborn ( United States Navy).[139]
USS Lily  United States Navy American Civil War: The tugboat sank in the Yazoo River near Chickasaw Bayou in Warren County, Mississippi, after colliding with the ironclad ram USS Choctaw ( United States Navy).

29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1863
Ship State Description
USS Amanda  United States Navy American Civil War: The 368-ton bark, driven aground by a storm in St. George Sound on the coast of Florida in Franklin County near Dog Island on 27 May, was burned by her crew to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[95][140]
Andrew Manderson  United States American Civil War: The 368-ton bark, a collier, was wrecked by a gale at Sand Island on the coast of Florida.[95]
Jabez Snow  United States American Civil War: The 1,074-ton ship, bound from Cardiff, Wales, to Montevideo, Uruguay, and Calcutta, India, with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean near Brazil at 13°25′11″S 35°38′00″W / 13.41972°S 35.63333°W / -13.41972; -35.63333 (Jabez Snow) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][3][78]
Relief  United States American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate forces at Point Isabel, Texas.[1]

30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1863
Ship State Description
Eager  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with a cargo of assorted merchandise, the schooner was burned by the Confeerates at a wharf near the custom house at Point Isabel near Brazos Santiago, Texas, to prevent her capture when launches from the sloop-of-war USS Brooklyn ( United States Navy) approached.[123]
Emma Bett  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 79-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was captured and burned in the Quiver River in Mississippi by a boat expedition from the armed sternwheel paddle steamer USS Forest Rose and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Linden (both  United States Navy).[3][141][142]
Margaret and Jessie  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Damaged by gunfire from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Rhode Island ( United States Navy) while trying to run the Union blockade with a large cargo of cotton and 16 passengers on board, the steamer was run aground on Eleuthera in the Bahamas by her crew to prevent her from sinking. Gunfire from Rhode Island killed one person aboard Margaret and Jessie.[3][86]
Star  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured, run aground, and burned at Point Isabel near Brazos Santiago, Texas, by a shore party from the sloop-of-war USS Brooklyn ( United States Navy).[1]
Victoria  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 100-ton sloop was captured at Point Isabel near Brazos Santiago, Texas, by a four-boat expedition from the sloop-of-war USS Brooklyn ( United States Navy). The boat crews burned her after she ran aground as they attempted to get her into the Gulf of Mexico.[3][2]

31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1863
Ship State Description
USS Alert  United States Navy The armed tug burned at sank while moored at a wharf at Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[139]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date May 1863
Ship State Description
Alonzo Child  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 493-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was shot to pieces at Snyder's Bluff on the Yazoo River in Mississippi by the ironclad gunboat USS Baron DeKalb ( United States Navy). Union forces scuttled her wreck as a blockship in the Yazoo River at Haynes' Bluff in Mississippi.
CSS Dew Drop (or Dewdrop)  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of commissary stores, the 184-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned to the waterline and sunk as a blockship by Confederate forces in the Quiver River 15 miles (24 km) below Greenwood, Mississippi, on 25 or 30 May. A boat expedition from the armed sternwheel paddle steamer USS Forest Rose and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Linden (both  United States Navy) boarded her wreck on 30 May and set it afire, completeing her destruction.[69][142]
Flying Cloud  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sloop was sunk in Tabb's Creek in Virginia.[136]
CSS Ivy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Yazoo River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.
CSS Magenta  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 782-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River in Mississippi about 5 miles (8 km) above Yazoo City sometime between 24 and 31 May to prevent her capture by approaching United States Navy gunboats.[69][143][144]
Thomas F. Secor  United States American Civil War: The 210-ton full-rigged ship burned at Seabrook's Landing at Hilton Head, South Carolina.[18]
Two unidentified barges  United States American Civil War: The coal barges were scuttled in the lower part of the Alexandria Falls on the Red River of the South in Louisiana to raise the water level so that Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter′s fleet ( United States Navy) could escape downstream.

June

2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1863
Ship State Description
Amazonian  United States American Civil War: The 480-ton bark, bound from New York City, to Montevideo, Uruguay, with a mixed cargo that included commercial mail, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean at 15°01′18″N 34°56′30″W / 15.02167°N 34.94167°W / 15.02167; -34.94167 (Amazonian) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][68]

5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Stono  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Wissahickon ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of cotton, the 382-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked in Charleston Harbor at Charleston, South Carolina on Bowman's Jetty, a breakwater near Fort Moultrie. Confederate forces burned her wreck when they evacuated Charleston in February 1865.[145][146]
Talisman  United States American Civil War: The 1,237-ton clipper, on a voyage from New York City to Shanghai, China, with a cargo of either coal or of four brass 12-pounder cannon, gunpowder, shot, two steam boilers, beef, port, and bread for a gunboat involved in the Taiping Rebellion (sources disagree), was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean at 14°35′42″S 36°26′45″W / 14.59500°S 36.44583°W / -14.59500; -36.44583 (Talisman) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[3][25][26]
Unidentified steamer unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was sunk by the gunboat USS Wissahickon ( United States Navy) while trying to run the Union blockade out of Charleston, South Carolina.[3][25]

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1863
Ship State Description
Southern Cross  United States American Civil War: The 938-ton full-rigged ship, bound from Mexico to New York City with a cargo of wood, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3]
Statesman  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The gunboat USS Tahoma discovered the schooner aground at Gadsen's Point, Florida, and captured her.[3]
Whistling Wind  United States American Civil War: The 350-ton bark, bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to New Orleans, Louisiana, with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Romain, South Carolina, at 33°39′N 071°29′W / 33.650°N 71.483°W / 33.650; -71.483 (Whistling Wind) by the merchant raider CSS Clarence ( Confederate States Navy).[3][112]

9 June

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1863
Ship State Description
Mary Alvina  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of commissary stores, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the Southeastern United States by the merchant raider CSS Clarence ( Confederate States Navy).[3]
Lenox  United States American Civil War: The bark, bound from New York City for New Orleans, Louisiana, with a mixed cargo, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico off Pass-a-l'Outre, Louisiana, by a Confederate States Navy prize crew aboard the steam tug Boston ( United States), which the Confederates had commandeered on 8 June.[3][147]

10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1863
Ship State Description
Texana  United States American Civil War: The bark, bound from New York City for New Orleans, Louisiana, with a mixed cargo, was captured and burned in the Gulf of Mexico about 35 nautical miles (65 km) off Pass-a-l'Outre, Louisiana, by a Confederate States Navy prize crew aboard the steam tug Boston ( United States), which the Confederates had commandeered on 8 June.[3][147]

10-11 June

List of shipwrecks: 10-11 June 1863
Ship State Description
Ruby  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The 400-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, attempting to run the Union blockade to reach Nassau in the Bahamas with general cargo and government property aboard, was forced aground off the coast of South Carolina in Lighthouse Inlet on the north end of Folly Island near Charleston by the armed screw steamers USS Memphis and USS Stettin and the gunboat USS Ottawa (all  United States) on 10–11 June. She was burned there.[96]

11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1863
Ship State Description
Havelock  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: While trying to run the Union blockade at Charleston, South Carolina, the steamer was heavily damaged by gunfire from the screw steamers USS Memphis and USS Stettin and the gunboat USS Ottawa (all  United States Navy). At daybreak on 12 June, Union forces discover her aground off the coast of South Carolina on Folly Island, burning and a total wreck.[3]
Odd Fellow  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned by a boat crew from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion ( United States Navy) on the Coan River in Virginia.[3][148]
Sarah Margaret  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned by a boat crew in a gig from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Coeur de Lion ( United States Navy) on the Coan River in Virginia.[3][149]

12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Clarence  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The crew of the merchant raider burned her in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, after transferring her weapons, equipment, and provisions to the bark Tacony ( United States), which they had captured that day and which they commissioned as the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3]
Mary A. Schindler  United States American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Port Royal, South Carolina, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the schooner was captured in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the merchant raider CSS Clarence ( Confederate States Navy) when she responded to Clarence′s fake distress signal. Clarence′s crew then burned her as well as Clarence after transferring to the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][45]

14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1863
Ship State Description
Good Hope  United States American Civil War: The bark, bound from Boston, Massachusetts, to the Cape of Good Hope, was burned in the Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy). Georgia had captured Good Hope on 13 June.[3]

15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1863
Ship State Description
Umpire  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Cárdenas, Cuba, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of molasses and sugar, the brig was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Virginia at 37°40′N 070°31′W / 37.667°N 70.517°W / 37.667; -70.517 (Umpire) by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][150]

17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Atlanta  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Battle of Wassaw Sound: The casemate ironclad ran hard aground in Wassaw Sound, Georgia, while in combat with the monitors USS Weehawken and USS Nahant and the gunboat USS Cimerone (all  United States Navy) and surrendered to Weehawken. She was refloated, repaired, and placed in service as USS Atlanta ( United States Navy).
Benjamin F. Hoxie  United States American Civil War: The clipper, carrying a cargo of timber and silver bars from the west coast of Mexico to Falmouth, England, was captured and burned off the West Indies by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][3][20]

18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1863
Ship State Description
Anglo-American  United States American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned on Bayou Plaquemine in Louisiana by troops of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Brigade ( Confederate States Army).[151]
Belfast  United States American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned on Bayou Plaquemine in Louisiana by troops of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Brigade ( Confederate States Army).[34]
Mary Jane  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, was chased ashore and destroyed on a beach near the harbor at Clearwater, Florida, at 28°00′N 82°53′W / 28.000°N 82.883°W / 28.000; -82.883 (Mary Jane) by the gunboat USS Tahoma ( United States Navy).[3][152]
Red Gauntlet  United States American Civil War: The 1,038-ton clipper was burned off the West Indies by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19] Florida had captured her on 14 June.[3]
Sykes  United States American Civil War: While stuck on a pile, the 163-ton steamer was captured and burned on Bayou Plaquemine in Louisiana by troops of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Brigade ( Confederate States Army).[98]
Two unidentified steam flatboats  United States American Civil War: The two steam flatboats was captured and burned on Bayou Plaquemine in Louisiana by troops of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Brigade ( Confederate States Army).[153]

20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Lapwing  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The crew of the bark, in use as a tender, burned her in sight either of Barbados or Rocas Atoll (sources disagree) and rowed to shore in one of her boats.[19][78]
Micawber  United States American Civil War: The fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3]

21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1863
Ship State Description
Byzantium  United States American Civil War: The clipper, carrying a cargo of coal from London to New York City, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean east of New England and southeast of Canada near 41°00′N 69°10′W / 41.000°N 69.167°W / 41.000; -69.167 ("Byzantium") by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][104]
Goodspeed  United States American Civil War: Saling from Derry, Ireland, to New York City in ballast, the bark was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][46]

22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1863
Ship State Description
Elizabeth Ann  United States American Civil War: The 92-ton fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][46]
Marengo  United States American Civil War: The fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3]
Rufus Choate  United States American Civil War: The 90-ton fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][37]
Ripple  United States American Civil War: The 64-ton fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][37]

23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1863
Ship State Description
Ada  United States American Civil War: The fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3]
Wanderer  United States American Civil War: The 94-ton fishing schooner was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off New England by the merchant raider CSS Tacony ( Confederate States Navy).[3][37]

24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1863
Ship State Description
Lebanon No. 2  United States The 254-ton sterwnheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank at Big Hurricane in Kentucky.[154]
USS Sumpter  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed screw steamer sank in 20 minutes without loss of life in the North Atlantic Ocean off Smith Island, North Carolina, 8.5 nautical miles (16 km) south-southwest of the Smith Island Lighthouse at 37°05′48″N 75°42′14″W / 37.0968°N 75.7040°W / 37.0968; -75.7040 (USS Sumpter (1853)) after colliding with the transport General Meigs ( United States Army). Her crew was rescued by the sloop-of-war USS Jamestown ( United States Navy).[84]

25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Tacony  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The crew of the merchant raider, bark, burned her in the North Atlantic Ocean off Maine after transferring her weapons, equipment, and provisions to the fishing schooner Archer ( United States), which they had captured that day and which they commissioned as the merchant raider CSS Archer ( Confederate States Navy).[3][155]

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1863
Ship State Description
USRC Caleb Cushing United States Revenue-Marine
Harper's Weekly illustration of USRC Caleb Cushing burning.
American Civil War, Battle of Portland Harbor: The United States Revenue-Marine cutter, seized earlier in the day while in port at Portland, Maine, and taken to sea by a raiding party from the merchant raider CSS Archer ( Confederate States Navy), was set afire and abandoned by the Confederates while in action with a flotilla of Union steamers and tugs in the North Atlantic Ocean off Portland. She exploded when the flames reached her ammunition magazine.[3]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1863
Ship State Description
Soler  Spain The 605-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in the Gulf of Mexico in mid-June.[156]

July

2 July

List of shipwrecks: 2 July 1863
Ship State Description
Anna F. Schmidt  United States American Civil War: The 784-ton ship, with a cargo of clothes, medicines, clocks, sewing machines, and an invention for killing bed bugs, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean at 25°27′S 37°56′W / 25.450°S 37.933°W / -25.450; -37.933 (Anna F. Schmidt) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][69][68]

3 July

List of shipwrecks: 3 July 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified sloop  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was destroyed at Cumberland, Virginia, by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Commodore Morris ( United States Navy).[6]

4 July

List of shipwrecks: 4 July 1863
Ship State Description
Two unidentified schooners  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Fleeing the approaching gunboat USS Sciota ( United States Navy), the two schooners, carrying cargoes of cotton, grounded on the coast of Texas in Corpus Christi Bay and were burned by boat crews from Sciota.[2]

5 July

List of shipwrecks: 5 July 1863
Ship State Description
Judah Touro  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 332-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned at Shreveport, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[157]

6 July

List of shipwrecks: 6 July 1863
Ship State Description
Express  United States American Civil War: The 1,072-ton full-rigged ship, sailing from Callao, Peru, to Antwerp, Belgium, with a cargo of guano, was captured and burned in the South Atlantic Ocean off Brazil at 28°28′S 30°07′W / 28.467°S 30.117°W / -28.467; -30.117 (Express) by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][69][78]

7 July

List of shipwrecks: 7 July 1863
Ship State Description
Alice Dean  United States American Civil War: The 411-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was captured on the Ohio River at Brandenburg, Kentucky, by troops under the command of John Hunt Morgan ( Confederate States Army) aboard the captured John T. McCombs ( United States). They burned Alice Dean near the Indiana bank of the river between Mauckport and Morvin's Landing.[158]

8 July

List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1863
Ship State Description
Constitution  United States American Civil War: The bark, captured in the Atlantic Ocean by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy) on 25 June on the 48th day of a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Shanghai, China, with a cargo of coal, was used for target practice by Georgia′s gunners, set alight, and destroyed by the resulting fire.[3][104][159][160]
Rienzi  United States American Civil War: The whaler, a schooner returning from a whaling expedition to the South Pacific Ocean carrying a cargo of whale oil, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean within 50 miles (81 km) of New York City by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][69][161]
William B. Nash  United States American Civil War: The brig, carrying a cargo of lard, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off New York City by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][69][162]

10 July

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1863
Ship State Description
Enoch Dean  United States American Civil War: Carrying African-Americans for the Freedmen's Bureau, the transport struck piles, ran aground, and was burned at Willstown Bluff on the Pon Pon River in Georgia, more than 30 miles (48 km) from the river′s mouth.[163]

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1863
Ship State Description
Kate  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was forced aground at Smith's Island, North Carolina by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy). The Confederates refloated her on 31 July and moved her to New Inlet, North Carolina, but abandoned her when U.S. Navy ships approached.[69]

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 13 July 1863
Ship State Description
USS Baron DeKalb  United States Navy American Civil War: The City-class ironclad gunboat was sunk by a Confederate mine without loss of life in the Yazoo River 1 or 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) below Yazoo City, Mississippi.[69][164]
CSS Edward J. Gay  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 823-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned and scuttled as a blockship by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River at the mouth of the Yalobusha River near Yazoo City, Mississippi, both to obstruct the Yalobusha and to prevent her capture by Union forces.[69][165][142]
Manigault  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Hit by Union artillery the previous day, suffering one killed and boiler damage, the steam scow was burned by Union forces in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, at either James Island or Morris Island.[88]
Thomas Scott  United States The 149-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Ohio River above Warsaw, Kentucky.[166]
Two unidentified steamers  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The two steamers – possibly Fort Hindman and James Thompson – were burned in the Little Red River in Louisiana by the sidewheel gunboats and USS Manitou and USS Rattler (both  United States Navy).[153]

14 July

List of shipwrecks: 14 July 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Magnolia  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 824-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Yazoo River 4 to 5 miles (6.5 to 8 km) above Yazoo City, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by approaching United States Navy gunboats.[69][167][144]
CSS Mary E. Keene  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 659-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled by Confederate forces in Mississippi at the foot of French Bend in the Yazoo River either near Yazoo City or 2 miles (3.2 km) below Greenwood to prevent her capture by approaching United States Navy gunboats. Union forces burned the portion of the wreck above the waterline on 24 July.[69][168][70]
CSS Peytona  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 685-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned and scuttled by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River at Eureka Landing near Satartia, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by United States Navy gunboats.[69][169][131]
CSS Prince of Wales  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 572-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Yazoo River opposite Andrews Landing near Yazoo City, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by United States Navy gunboats.[69][170][131]
USS Sciota  United States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat collided with the screw steamer USS Antona ( United States Navy) on the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, about 8 miles (13 km) above Quarantine Station and sank. She was refloated in late August, repaired, and returned to service.

17 July

List of shipwrecks: 17 July 1863
Ship State Description
Arcadia  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 343-ton sidehweel paddle steamer was scuttled and burned by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River in Mississippi about a mile (1.6 km) below the mouth of the Yalobusha River or about a mile (1.6 km) below Greenwood to prevent her capture by Union forces.[69][171]
Ferd Kennet (or Fred Kennett)  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 591-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned and scuttled by Confederate forces in the Yazoo River at the mouth of the Yalobusha River near Yazoo City, Mississippi, both to obstruct the Yalobusha and to prevent her capture by Union forces.[69][172][142]

18 July

List of shipwrecks: 18 July 1863
Ship State Description
George Peabody  United States American Civil War: The ship was aground at Mathias Point, Virginia, on this date.[69]
Hartford City  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamboat was burned by Confederate forces on either the Tallahatchie or Yazoo River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[173]

19 July

List of shipwrecks: 19 July 1863
Ship State Description
Raccoon  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The crew of the 159-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran her aground on Drunken Dick Shoal near Moultrie House on the coast of South Carolina, after the screw sloop-of-war USS Canandaigua ( United States Navy) intercepted her as she tried to run the Union blockade from Nassau in the Bahamas into Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo of lead. The broadside ironclad USS New Ironsides ( United States Navy) shelled her. Raccoon′s crew burned her on 20 July to prevent her capture by Union forces.[69][58]

20 July

List of shipwrecks: 20 July 1863
Ship State Description
Colonel Hill  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned on the Tar River near Tarboro, North Carolina, by men of the 12th New York Cavalry Regiment ( Union Army).[174][175]
Governor Morehead  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by Union Army forces in North Carolina in the vicinity of the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers or on the Tar River at Tarboro (sources disagree).[176][175]
Unnamed ironclad  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad warship, known informally as the "Tar River Ironclad," was captured and destroyed by the 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment ( Union Army) while still on the building ways at Tarboro, North Carolina.[21]

21 July

List of shipwrecks: 21 July 1863
Ship State Description
Revenge  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The 20-ton schooner, carrying a cargo of sugar, hides, and mineral salts, was captured and destroyed at Sabine Pass in Louisiana several miles above the Calcasieu Pass Bar by boat crews from the gunboats USS Cayuga and USS Owasco (both  United States Navy).[69][177]

25 July

List of shipwrecks: 25 July 1863
Ship State Description
Boston  United States The 395-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Moore′s Bar on the Ohio River near Portsmouth, Ohio.[158]
H. D. Mears (or Meares)  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 338-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled by Confederate forces in the Sunflower River near Yazoo City, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by United States Navy forces.[69]>[178][179]

28 July

List of shipwrecks: 28 July 1863
Ship State Description
Paris  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was approaching Saint Helier harbour on Jersey in the Channel Islands at the end of a voyage from Saint-Malo, France, with 24 passengers and 12 tons of cargo, chiefly butter and eggs, aboard under the control of a pilotwhen she struck on a rock known as Grune Vaudin. The engines were immediately stopped and at once set for astern and the lifeboats were ordered lowered. Ten minutes after the vessel struck, she went down in 30 feet (9.1 meters) of water.[180][181]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Various vessels were destroyed at New Smyrna, Florida, by the schooner USS Beauregard, the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Oleander, and boats from the schooner USS Para and the gunboat USS Sagamore (all  United States Navy).

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date July 1863
Ship State Description
Ben McCulloch  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on Tchula Lake in Mississippi by Confederate States Army cavalry to prevent her capture by Union forces.[182]
CSS Hart  Confederate States Army American Civil War: Scuttled in Grand Lake in the vicinity of Camp Bisland on Bayou Teche in Louisiana on 14 April 1863 to prevent her capture by Union forces, the 175-ton ironclad sidewheel paddle steamer had almost been refloated by Confederate forces when she was scuttled again upon the appearance of U.S. Navy gunboats.[100][101]
Cotton Plant  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was burned on the Tallhatchie River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[183]

August

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1863
Ship State Description
Ruth  United States American Civil War: The 702-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at Lucas Bend, 4 miles (6.4 km) below Norfolk, Missouri. She was engulfed in flames within five minutes and burned for five hours before sinking in 18 feet (5.5 meters) of water . Thirty lives were lost. Her wreck was blown up with gunpowder on October 19, 1863.[184]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1863
Ship State Description
USS Paw Paw  United States Navy American Civil War: The centerwheel paddle steamer sank within 15 minutes of striking a snag in the Mississippi River near Hardin's Point, Arkansas. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1863
Ship State Description
Faith  United States Carrying a cargo of coal intended for United States Navy ships blockading Charleston, South Carolina, the bark ran ashore and bilged off Port Royal, South Carolina.[115]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1863
Ship State Description
Commodore  United States The steamer was lost south of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[185]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1863
Ship State Description
USS Crocus  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed screw steamer was wrecked on Bodie′s Island on the coast of North Carolina.[186]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1863
Ship State Description
Hebe  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer USS Niphon and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Shokokon (both  United States Navy), the screw steamer, carrying a cargo of coffee, clothing, medicine, and provisions, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina at Federal Point, north of Fort Fisher, and was abandoned by her crew. According to one source, the Shokokon then riddled her with gunfire, igniting a fire that burned her to the waterline. According to another source, six U.S. Navy warships shelled Hebe′s wreck on 20 August, destroying her machinery and completing her destruction.[69][33]
CSS Oconee  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The gunboat foundered in bad weather in the North Atlantic Ocean south of St. Catherines Island, Georgia, during a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to England with a cargo of cotton. Her crew abandoned ship safely, but a Union ship captured 15 of them off the coast of Florida on 20 August.[152]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Robert Habersham  Confederate States Navy The 173- or 200-ton sidewheel transport suffered a boiler explosion on the Savannah River at Savannah, Georgia, that wrecked her, injured at least eight to ten people, and may have killed her entire crew of 25.[187][188]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1863
Ship State Description
William S. Bull  United States The 16-ton screw steamer foundered in Lake Erie about 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Erie, Pennsylvania.[189]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1863
Ship State Description
Anglo Saxon  United States American Civil War: The 868-ton clipper, bound from Liverpool, England, to New York City with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean near Brest, France, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Florida ( Confederate States Navy).[19][69][190]
USS Bainbridge  United States Navy American Civil War, Union blockade: The brig capsized and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Only two members of her crew survived the sinking to escape in a boat, but one of them became crazed, jumped overboard, and drowned. South Boston (flag unknown) rescued the only surviving crewman two days later.[191]
Champion  United States American Civil War: The 676-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, with the loss of one life.[135]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1863
Ship State Description
Alexander Cooper  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned in New Topsail Inlet on the coast of North Carolina by a boat crew from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Shokokon ( United States Navy).[69]
Georges Creek  United States The 448-ton screw steamer foundered in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.[97]
Unidentified schooner  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned in New Topsail Inlet on the coast of North Carolina by United States Navy sailors.[21]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1863
Ship State Description
Coquette  United States American Civil War: The schooner, carrying a cargo of anchor and chain, was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, by the sidewheel paddle tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy), which was under the control of a Confederate States Navy crew that had captured her on 23 August. After stripping Coquette, the Confederates burned her at Port Royal, Virginia.[69]
Golden Rod  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, to Maine with a cargo of coal, the schooner, was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia and burned at Urbanna, Virginia, by the sidewheel paddle tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy), which was under the control of a Confederate States Navy crew that had captured her on 23 August.[69]<re name=gainesp181>Gaines, p. 181.</ref>
CSS Oconee  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat foundered in bad weather in the Atlantic Ocean during a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, to England with a cargo of cotton. Her crew abandoned ship safely, but Union forces captured 15 of them on 20 August.

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1863
Ship State Description
H. L. Hunley  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina, during a test run in Charleston Harbor when she dived accidentally with her hatches open. The accident killed five members of her eight-man crew. She was refloated and returned to service.

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1863
Ship State Description
America  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton loaded at Corpus Christi, Texas, the schooner capsized in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas while under tow by the bark USS William G. Anderson ( United States Navy). William G. Anderson had captured her off Texas on 27 August.[192]
Sunbeam  United States Carrying a cargo of whiskey and US$10,000 in specie, the sidewheel passenger steamer sank during a storm in 132 feet (40 meters) of water in Lake Superior off Keweenaw Point, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Copper Harbor or Eagle Harbor, Michigan, at 47°29′00″N 87°47′48″W / 47.48333°N 87.79667°W / 47.48333; -87.79667 (Sunbeam).[193]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1863
Ship State Description
Coquette  United States The 50-ton schooner was destroyed by Confederate forces at Port Royal, Virginia. They had captured her at the mouth of the Rappahannock River on the night of 24–25 August.[194]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date August 1863
Ship State Description
USS Reliance  United States Navy American Civil War: Captured by a Confederate States Navy crew on 23 August, the armed screw steamer was destroyed by Confederate forces at Port Royal, Virginia, either on 25 August or between 28 and 31 August to prevent her recapture by cavalry forces under Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick ( United States Army).[69][149]
USS Satellite  United States Navy American Civil War: Captured by a Confederate States Navy crew on 23 August, the armed sidewheel tug was destroyed by Confederate forces at Port Royal, Virginia, either on 25 August or between 28 and 31 August to prevent her recapture by cavalry forces under Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick ( United States Army).[69][195] The armed steamer USS Commodore Read ( United States Navy) detonated 50 pounds (22.7 kg) of gunpowder in her boiler on 31 May 1864 to prevent her salvage by the Confederates.[195]
Sharp  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was burned and sunk by the Confederates in the Sunflower River in Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[196]
Sumter  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The 212-ton steamer, a transport carrying the 20th South Carolina Regiment, the 23rd South Carolina Regiment, and Captain Matthew's Artillery Company (all  Confederate States Army), was shelled by Confederate artillery in at Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg on Sullivan's Island that mistook her for a United States Navy monitor in fog and heavy weather while she was entering Charleston Harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, without showing a recognition light on 30 or 31 August. She sank in two hours with the loss of 40 killed, one wounded, and eight missing. More than 600 survivors were rescued by barges and Confederate States Navy gunboats.[18]
Two Brothers  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of anchors and anchor chains to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 49-ton schooner was captured by a Confederate States Navy crew aboard the captured armed tug USS Satellite ( United States Navy) at the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia on the night of 24–25 August, then was stripped and burned at Port Royal, Virginia, on either 25 or 31 August.[69][150]
Unidentifed schooner  United States American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of coal, the schooner was sunk by Confederate guerrillas off Urbanna, Virginia.[74]

September

1-2 September

List of shipwrecks: 1-2 September 1863
Ship State Description
Rinaldo  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was captured and burned at Trinity in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, by troops of the 17th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( Union Army).[177]

8 September

List of shipwrecks: 8 September 1863
Ship State Description
USS Clifton  United States Navy American Civil War, Second Battle of Sabine Pass: The sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground in the Sabine Pass on the coast of Texas under intense Confederate artillery fire. She surrendered, and the Confederates refloated and repaired her and placed her in service with the Texas Marine Department.

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1863
Ship State Description
D. E. Crary  Confederate States Navy The 109-ton screw steamer was stranded.[64]
CSS Pontchartrain  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel armored gunboat was burned by Confederate forces on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces. The sidewheel steamer USS General Price ( United States Navy) completed her destruction on 10 September.[197]

10 September

List of shipwrecks: 10 September 1863
Ship State 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.[198]
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.[199]
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.[200]
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.[201]
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.[201]
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.[202][68]
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.[68]

12 September

List of shipwrecks: 12 September 1863
Ship State Description
Diurnal  United States The 199-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and burned on the White River at St. Charles, Arkansas.[200]
Fox  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, a blockade runner, was destroyed by her own crew at Pascagoula, Mississippi, to prevent her capture by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Genesee ( United States Navy).[69]

13 September

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1863
Ship State 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.[9]
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.[4]
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.[203]
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.[69]
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.[162]

14 September

List of shipwrecks: 14 September 1863
Ship State 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.

15 September

List of shipwrecks: 15 September 1863
Ship State Description
Arabian  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, the 263-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina at the entrance to the Cape Fear River at Kure Beach north of Corncake Inlet, about one mile (1.6 km) below Fort Fisher, after being turned back by the screw steamer USS Iron Age and screw sloop USS Shenandoah (both  United States Navy) while trying to exit the Cape Fear River at night.[191]

19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1863
Ship State Description
Manhasset  United States American Civil War: The coal schooner was driven ashore and wrecked by a gale on the coast of Texas 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Sabine Pass. Confederate forces captured her wreck.[69][204]

22 September

List of shipwrecks: 22 September 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified vessel Unknown The vessel was chased ashore near the mouth of Caney Creek near Velasco, Texas, by a United States Navy armed schooner. Her crew burned her to prevent her capture by Union forces.[205]

23 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1863
Ship State 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.[69][139]
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.[206][207]
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.[74]

24 September

List of shipwrecks: 24 September 1863
Ship State Description
Elizabeth  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a military cargo, the 623-to-660-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina at the east end of Lockwood Folly Inlet and was burned.[208]

25 September

List of shipwrecks: 25 September 1863
Ship State Description
CSS Grand Duke  Confederate States Navy An accidental fire destroyed the 508-ton cottonclad sidewheel paddle steamer at Shreveport, Louisiana.[101]

26 September

List of shipwrecks: 23 September 1863
Ship State Description
Novik  Imperial Russian Navy The corvette was wrecked on the coast of California two miles (3.2 km) north of Point Reyes.[28]

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1863
Ship State Description
Julius Pringle Unknown The full-rigged ship was lost at Monterey, California, with the loss of one life.[60]

28 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1863
Ship State Description
Robert Campbell Jr.  United States American Civil War: The 421-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River near Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, with the loss of 22 lives after a Confederate guerrilla posing as a passenger aboard her set her on fire.[184]
Unidentified schooner  United States American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned on Old Haven Creek on the coast of Virginia by the gunboat USS Currituck ( United States Navy).[74]

30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1863
Ship State Description
Director  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Nassau in the Bahamas to Peace Creek, Florida, with a cargo of rum and salt, the schooner was captured and destroyed as she exited Terraceia Creek at the entrance to the Caloosahatchie River at Punta Rasa, Florida, by the bark USS Gem of the Sea ( United States Navy).[27]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1863
Ship State Description
Augusta  United States The 218-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded at Hell Gate in the East River in New York City.[43]
City of Madison  United States American Civil War: The 419-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, after being set afire by Confederate agents. Reports of the loss of life in the fire and explosion range from 63 to 156 killed.[135]
John Bell  United States The 209-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at St. Charles, Missouri, on either 24 or 28 September.[120]
Madison  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 99-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled by her owner on the rocks at Troy Springs, Florida, to prevent her seizure by Union forces.[209]
Smoker  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton transferred from the blockade runner Sarah (flag unknown), the steamer was declared a total loss after becoming stranded on the coast of Mexico near Tampico.[91]

October

4 October

List of shipwrecks: 4 October 1863
Ship State Description
Catahoula  United States American Civil War: The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[135]
Chancellor  United States American Civil War: The 392-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[135]
Forest Queen  United States American Civil War: The 419-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.[135]

5 October

List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1863
Ship State Description
Concordia  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner was burned by her crew on the Calcasieu River at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by an armed cutter and gig from the gunboat USS Granite City (1863) ( United States Navy).[69][105]

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1863
Ship State Description
Argus  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor USS Osage ( United States Navy).[69][151]
Pushmataha  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo consisting of claret, gunpowder, and a naval ram, the blockade runner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River while trying to enter the Mermentau River. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her, after which a boat crew from the gunboat USS Cayuga ( United States Navy) boarded her, removed all of her cargo except two kegs of gunpowder, and blew her up.[69][210]
Robert Fulton  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 158-ton sidewheel steamboat was captured on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor USS Osage ( United States Navy) and was burned at the river′s mouth in Louisiana.[69][177]
Unidentified schooner Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River by a boat crew from the gunboat USS Cayuga ( United States Navy). The schooner′s crew blew her up before the boat crew could board her.[69][153]

8 October

List of shipwrecks: 8 October 1863
Ship State Description
J. O.  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore at Whitford Point, Glamorgan, Wales. Her crew survived.[31]

9 October

List of shipwrecks: 9 October 1863
Ship State Description
Bold Hunter  United States American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, bound for Calcutta, India, from Dundee, Scotland, with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French West Africa near 19°N 21°W / 19°N 21°W / 19; -21 (Bold Hunter) by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ( Confederate States Navy).[69][104]
CSS Pontchartrain  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was burned on the Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, to prevent her capture by Union forces.[211]

11 October

List of shipwrecks: 11 October 1863
Ship State Description
Douro  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, rosin, tobacco, and turpentine, the steamer was chased ashore and destroyed on the coast of North Carolina near New Inlet by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nansemond ( United States Navy).[69]<re name=gainesp117/>
Elvira  United States The 222-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at the foot of Widow Beard’s Island below St. Louis, Missouri.[57]
USS Madgie  United States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat foundered in heavy seas off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina, while under tow by the screw steamer USS Fahkee ( United States Navy).[69][45]
Rover Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran ashore at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.[212]

12 October

List of shipwrecks: 12 October 1863
Ship State Description
Columbia  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned to the waterline at Ape's Hole near the head of Pocomoke Sound, 15 miles (24 km) from Drummondtown, Virginia, by a Union small boat expedition.[155]
'Jane  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her crew on the coast of Texas off the Brazos River to prevent her capture by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Tennessee ( United States Navy). She blew up, and the explosion was heard 30 miles away in Galveston, Texas.[213]

14 October

List of shipwrecks: 14 October 1863
Ship State Description
Lady Jackson  United States The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the White River in Arkansas.[201]

15 October

List of shipwrecks: 15 October 1863
Ship State Description
H. L. Hunley  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina, while making a mock attack during training in Charleston Harbor. The accident killed her entire eight-man crew, including her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley. She was refloated and returned to service.

15-16 October

List of shipwrecks: 15-16 October 1863
Ship State Description
White  United States American Civil War: The tug was destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[214]
Unidentified dredge  United States American Civil War: The dredge was destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[215]
Unidentified vessels  United States American Civil War: The vessels were destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.[215]

16 October

List of shipwrecks: 16 October 1863
Ship State Description
A. B. Noyes  United States American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate forces in Tampa Bay off Fort Brooke, Florida.[216]
Jane  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her own crew off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico off the Rio Grande to prevent her capture by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Tennessee ( United States Navy).[69]

17 October

List of shipwrecks: 17 October 1863
Ship State Description
Kate Dale  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her moorings in the Hillsborough River 2 miles (3.2 km) above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Adela and the gunboat USS Tahoma (both  United States Navy).[69][209]
Rover  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by a boat crew from the schooner USS T. A. Ward.[69]
Scottish Chief  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her mooring in the Hillsborough River 2 miles (3.2 km) above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Adela and the gunboat USS Tahoma (both  United States Navy).[69][67]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1863
Ship State Description
Mars Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina.[45]

21 October

List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1863
Ship State Description
Venus  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Nassau in the Bahamas and trying to run the Union blockade from Bermuda with a cargo of rifle muskets, cartridges, lead, dry goods, bacon, coffee, rum, and medicine and a model of a railroad, the 365-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near the Cape Fear River with one crewman killed after taking four shell hits and beginning to take on water while under fire by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nansemond and the armed screw steamers USS Niphon and USS Iron Age (all  United States Navy). U.S. Navy sailors boarded her and tried to refloat her but were unsuccessful, so they blew up her boilers and set her afire on the morning of 22 October, wrecking her.[69][217]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1863
Ship State Description
Mist  United States American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned by Confederate guerillas at her mooring at Ship Island on the coast of Mississippi.[69][36]
Oregon  United States The 1,004-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the North River off New York City a few minutes after being almost cut in two in a collision with City of Boston ( United States). One of Oregon′s passengers suffered minor injuries, but no lives were lost.[162][218]

22-23 October

List of shipwrecks: 22-23 October 1863
Ship State Description
Alexander Cooper  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: While anchored by a wharf on the coast of North Carolina about 6 miles (10 km) up New Topsail Inlet, the schooner was burned by two boats from the gunboat USS Shokokon ( United States Navy).[82]

24 October

List of shipwrecks: 24 October 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified mortar boat  United States Navy The mortar boat capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at the mouth of the canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi, while under tow by the steamer USS Petrel ( United States Navy).[219]

26 October

List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1863
Ship State Description
Key West No. 2  United States The 206-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois.[203]

31 October

List of shipwrecks: 31 October 1863
Ship State Description
Kate  United States The schooner was lost at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[213]
Union  United States The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.[2]
Two unidentified schooners  United States The two schooners – one of which may have been Kate – foundered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas during a storm.[205]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date October 1863
Ship State Description
Fox  United States The 102-ton steamer burned on Lake Erie near Newport, Michigan.[154]
Hannibal  United States The 497-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River in Louisiana five miles (8 km) above Donaldsonville.[101]
Water Witch  United States Carrying a mixed cargo, the 369-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Huron less than two nautical miles (3.7 km) off Oscoda, Michigan, near Saginaw Bay at 44°25′N 83°19′W / 44.417°N 83.317°W / 44.417; -83.317 (Water Witch).[189]
Unidentified schooners and boats  Confederate States of America American Civil War: A Union expedition destroyed 150 schooners and boats in Mathews County, Virginia, between 4 and 9 October.[6]

November

5 November

List of shipwrecks: 5 November 1863
Ship State Description
Curlew  United States American Civil War: The 343-ton screw steamer collided with Louisiana (flag unknown) and sank off Point Lookout, Maryland.[155]
Nassau  United States The 518-ton steamer sank at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[1]
Partridge  United States The schooner was lost at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas.[1]

6 November

List of shipwrecks: 6 November 1863
Ship State Description
Amanda  United States American Civil War: The 598-ton bark, bound from Manila in the Philippines to Queenstown, Ireland, with a cargo of hemp and sugar, was captured and burned in the Netherlands East Indies or Indian Ocean by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][69][220]

7 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 November 1863
Ship State Description
Allen Collier  United States American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned by Confederate guerillas at her mooring on the Mississippi River at Bolivar Landing or Whitworth's Landing in Mississippi, across from and about a mile (1.6 km) above Laconia, Arkansas.[69][103]

8 November

List of shipwrecks: 8 November 1863
Ship State Description
Cornubia  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer USS Niphon ( United States Navy), the sidewheel paddle steamer was run aground by her crew on the coast of North Carolina near New Inlet. She was then captured by Union forces.[221]

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1863
Ship State Description
Winged Racer  United States American Civil War: During a voyage from Manila in the Philippines to New York City with a cargo of camphor, hemp, hides, jute, porcelain, and sugar, the 1,768-ton clipper was captured and burned in the Java Sea near the Sunda Strait by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][69][190]

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1863
Ship State Description
Captain John Brickell  United States The 188-ton sternwheel paddle steamer collided with a flatboat on the Ohio River, ran ashore on the Ohio side of the river, and sank in shallow water at West Columbia, West Virginia. She later was refloated.[158]
Contest  United States American Civil War: The 1,098-ton clipper, carrying a cargo of Chinese silk, tea, and goods from Yokohama, Japan, to New York City, was captured and burned off the Gaspar Strait in he Netherlands East Indies by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][30][69]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1863
Ship State Description
Sunnyside  United States Carrying a cargo of cotton, the 330-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Pomeroy, Ohio, near island No 16 with the loss of 30 to 40 lives.[166]

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1863
Ship State Description
Aquila  United States
The wreck of Aquila (Illustration from Harper's Weekly, 16 January 1864).
American Civil War: Carrying the disassembled monitor USS Camanche ( United States Navy), the full-rigged ship sank during a storm while moored at Hathaway's Wharf in San Francisco, California. Aquila and her cargo were salvaged, and Camanche was commissioned a year later.[222][223]
USS Lehigh  United States Navy American Civil War: The monitor ran aground off Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, under heavy fire by Confederate forces. She was pulled free on the morning of 16 November by the monitor USS Nahant ( United States Navy).[69]

16 November

List of shipwrecks: 16 November 1863
Ship State Description
Isca Unknown The vessel went aground in San Francisco Bay during a storm.[60]

17 November

List of shipwrecks: 17 November 1863
Ship State Description
18 to 20 unidentified boats  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The boats were destroyed on the Piankatank River in Mathews County, Virginia, by a Union expedition.[224]

18 November

List of shipwrecks: 18 November 1863
Ship State Description
Bagley  United States Army The 396-bulk-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank at Aransas Pass on the coast of Texas.[225]
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: A Union expedition destroyed a sloop and 12 boats at Gwynn's Island in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Virginia.[215]

21 November

List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1863
Ship State Description
Black Hawk  United States American Civil War: The 26-ton sidewheel tranport ran onto the bank of the Mississippi River in Louisiana at Hay Point, one mile (1.6 km) below the mouth of the Red River of the South, with her upper works destroyed after being ambushed by the 1st Louisiana Regiment ( Confederate States Army).[35]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1863
Ship State Description
Unidentified vessels  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: A joint expedition by elements of the 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry Reginment ( Union Army), the vessel May Queen ( United States), and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and gunboat USS General Putnam (both  United States Navy) burned three schooners, scows, and boats on the East River in Mathews County, Virginia.[6]

25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1863
Ship State Description
Nellie Moore  United States The 226-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Cumberland Island in Kentucky.[154]

26 November

List of shipwrecks: 26 November 1863
Ship State Description
Mary Ann  Confederate States of America The schooner was bound from Calcasieu, Louisiana, for Tampico, Mexico, with a cargo of cotton when she was captured and destroyed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas by the armed screw steamer USS Antona ( United States Navy).[204]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1863
Ship State Description
Alice Webb Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying assorted cargo, the schooner was beached on the coast of North Carolina inside Bogue Inlet on or before 3 November.[82]
Norman  United States After being captured by Confederate forces on the coast of Florida at the mouth of the Perdido River, the schooner was run aground and burned by her Confederate prize crew to prevent her recapture by the approaching screw steamer USS Bermuda ( United States Navy).[152]
Silver Wave  United States The 245-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Columbus, Kentucky.[108]

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1863
Ship State Description
Colonna  United States The 102-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Newburgh, Indiana.[158]
Tecumseh  United States American Civil War: The 418-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.[98]

6 December

List of shipwrecks: 6 December 1863
Ship State Description
Ceres  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, a steamer, was discovered aground and afire at the mouth of the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina by the screw steamers USS Aries and USS Violet (both  United States Navy). She floated free during the night of 6–7 December, the flames were extinguished, and she was captured by Violet.[69]
Fanny McBurney (or Fanny McBurnie)  United States The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on Island No. 34 in the Mississippi River.[57]
Isaac Newton  United States The 1,332-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Hudson River off Fort Washington in New York City, killing nine people.[162]
USS Weehawken  United States Navy
Illustrations depicting the sinking of USS Weehawken
.American Civil War: The monitor foundered at anchor in Charleston Harbor off Morris Island, South Carolina, at 32°42′57″N 79°53′25″W / 32.7157°N 79.8903°W / 32.7157; -79.8903 (USS Weehawken (1862)) during a gale with the loss of 31 lives.[226]

8 December

List of shipwrecks: 8 December 1863
Ship State Description
Antoinette  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade and reach Fernandina, Florida, the schooner was forced aground on Cumberland Island on the coast of Georgia by the bark USS Braziliera ( United States Navy).[227]

10 December

List of shipwrecks: 10 December 1863
Ship State Description
Hooghly  United Kingdom The barque foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers. Her crew were rescued by the steamer Ida ( United Kingdom).[228]
Josephine Truxillo  United States American Civil War: The schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb in Louisiana.[69][157]
Stephany (or Stepheny)  United States American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Lacomb in Louisiana.[69][98]

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1863
Ship State Description
General Beauregard  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Bound for England with a cargo of cotton, turpentine, and possibly gold, the 824-ton screw steamer ran aground on the coast of North Carolina at Carolina Beach and was burned by the Confederates to prevent her capture by Union forces.[97]
Helena  United States American Civil War: The 33-ton barge was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca in Louisiana.[69][101]
Sarah Bladen  United States American Civil War: The 43-ton schooner was burned by Confederate States Army troops on Bayou Bonfouca in Louisiana.[69][177]

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1863
Ship State Description
Alice Provost  United States The 476-ton bark was wrecked on the coast of South Carolina while trying to enter port at Port Royal. The receiving ship USS Vermont ( United States Navy) rescued her crew.[229]

17 December

List of shipwrecks: 17 December 1863
Ship State Description
G. O. Bigelow  United Kingdom American Civil War: Discovered aground and without her cargo at the entrance to Bear Inlet on the coast of North Carolina by the armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon and the armed supply ship USS New Berne (both  United States Navy), the 90-ton schooner was scuttled and burned by Confederate forces to prevent her capture.[97]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1863
Ship State Description
Antonica  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Attempting to run the Union blockade by passing inshore of the armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Connecticut and USS State of Georgia and the hermaphrodite brig USS Governor Buckingham (all  United States Navy) and reach Wilmington, North Carolina, with a cargo of clothing, cotton, dry goods, general provisions, and liquor and $1,200 in cash, the 563-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the western side of Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear, North Carolina. Her crew abandoned ship in her boats, and boat crews from Governor Buckingham captured 42 of her crew. Union forces could not refloat her, and she was abandoned. She broke up a few days later, becoming a total loss.[69][82]
Powerful  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: The sidewheel paddle steamer was abandoned by her crew and was captured at the mouth of the Suwannee River on the coast of Florida by the schooner USS Fox ( United States Navy). Fox′s crew destroyed her when they could not stop a serious leak aboard her.[69][67]
Quincy  United States The 396-ton screw steamer foundered at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, with the loss of 16 lives.[230]

24 December

List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1863
Ship State Description
Texan Star  United Kingdom American Civil War: The 799-ton bark, carrying a cargo of rice and bound for Singapore, was captured and burned in the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][69][231]

26 December

List of shipwrecks: 26 December 1863
Ship State Description
Highlander  United States American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore to British Burma, the 1,049- or 1,050-ton (sources disagree) clipper was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][30][69]
Sonora  United States American Civil War: During a voyage in ballast from Singapore to British Burma, the 707-ton full-rigged ship was captured and burned at the western entrance of the Strait of Malacca by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[25][30][69]

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1863
Ship State Description
Caroline Gertrude  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton to Havana, Cuba, ran aground on a bar just inside the mouth of the Ocklockonee River on the coast of Florida and was boarded and burned by boat crews from the screw steamer USS Stars and Stripes ( United States Navy).[27][69]
Unidentified vessel  Confederate States of America Carryiing a cargo of Mexican blankets, salt, and sundries, the vessel was driven ashore on the coast of Texas 5 miles (8 km) from the mouth of the San Bernard River during a storm.[205]

30 December

List of shipwrecks: 30 December 1863
Ship State Description
Dashaway Unknown The schooner may have been stranded on the coast of California on this date. If so, she was refloated and returned to service.[232]
Montana  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was wrecked on the reef off the north shore of Bermuda, becoming a total loss. Her crew and most of her cargo were saved.[228]
Nola  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: During a blockade-running voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, with a cargo of dry goods, the 607-gross ton sidewheel paddle steamer was driven onto a reef and wrecked in the Western Blue Cut area off Ireland Island, 7 nautical miles (13 km) northwest of Bermuda.[233]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date December 1863
Ship State Description
CSS John F. Carr  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The 200-ton sidewheel cottonclad gunboat was driven ashore on the Matagorda Peninsula on the coast of Texas by a severe gale and was burned to prevent her capture by Union forces on 30 or 31 December. Sources differ on her fate, claiming that the fire destroyed her or that Union forces pulled her onto a bank at Lynchburg, Texas, to prevent her from sinking in deep water and that she apparently was recaptured by the Confederates and returned to Confederate States Navy service.[69][213]
Rosalie (or Rosa Lee)  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner burned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1863
Ship State Description
Adrien Unknown The lugger sank at Gurnard's Head, Cornwall, England, with the loss of four of the five crew.[234]
Alcyone  United States The 88-ton schooner capsized during a gale at the Noyo River in Noyo Harbor at Fort Bragg, California, either between 12 and 16 January or on 17 February.[59]
Alhambra  United States The 187-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Commerce, Missouri.[103]
Alice and Mary Unknown The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the coast of Texas.[192]
Argo  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Linden ( United States Navy) in Mississippi about 75 miles (121 km) up the Sunflower River in mid-1863.[235]
Argosy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was burned on the Sunflower River in Mississippi in mid-1863 to prevent her capture by Union forces.[236]
Artizan  United Kingdom The paddle steamer was abandoned at Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland.[237]
Beejapore  United Kingdom The clipper was lost in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from Keppel Bay, Queensland, Australia, to Callao, Peru.
Belle Creole  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near West Columbia, West Virginia, during the winter of 1863-1864.[238]
Belle Peoria  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer was wrecked in the Missouri River at Fort Buford in the Dakota Territory sometime between 1862 and 1864. She was repaired and returned to service.[219]
Blossom Unknown The full-rigged ship was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.[225]
California  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 77-ton schooner was scuttled as a blockship at the Dog River Bar in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in 1862 or 1863.[239]
Caroline Unknown The 80-ton schooner was wrecked in Mendocino County, California.[240]
Carrier Dove  United States The clipper ran aground near Valentia Island, Ireland. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service. During the year, she also was in collision with another vessel in the River Mersey off the coast of England, but was repaired and returned to service.
Catalonian  United Kingdom The cargo ship was wrecked.[241]
Catherine Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: During an attempt to run the Union blockade, the schooner was stranded at Sabine Pass on the border between Louisiana and Texas sometime during the American Civil War.[225]
Charm  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River sometime in 1863 while lashed to the sidewheel paddle steamer Paul Jones ( Confederate States of America). Her wreck was burned to the waterline.[242]
Cochief  United States The 69-ton schooner was wrecked on Fish Rock at Point Arena, California, on either 30 January 1863 or 30 January 1865.[240]
Colombo  United States The vessel was wrecked off Jamaica in early 1863.[20]
Colonel Clay  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 257-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was scuttled as a blockship at the Dog River Bar in Mobile Bay, Alabama, in 1862 or 1863.[239]
Courier  United States The 165-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost.[64]
Dr. Kane  United States The 191-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in deep water in the Ohio River 300 yards (274 meters) below the public wharf at Cairo, Illinois, sometime during the American Civil War.[243]
Eagle Unknown The schooner may been stranded on the coast of California during 1863. If so, she was refloated and returned to service.[7]
Far West Unknown The two-masted schooner was stranded on the coast of California at Russian Gulch on either 15 January or 17 February.[7]
Francis Helen (or Francis Ellen) Unknown Carrying a cargo of railroad ties and pilings, the schooner drifted ashore in Bell Creek in California either during April or on 6 October.[7]
Frigate Bird Unknown The full-rigged ship was lost at Applegate Cove on the coast of Washington Territory.[215]
General McNeil Unknown The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at Howards Bend near St. Louis, Missouri, sometime during the 1860s.[244]
Grand Duke  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Red River of the South at Shreveport, Louisiana, late in 1863.[245]
J. D. Swaim  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer was sunk in McCall's River sometime in 1862. Union forces refloated her in early April 1864, repaired her, and placedher in Union service.[246]
Juliana  France American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was captured by United States Navy forces at Galveston, Texas, and sunk by the gunboat USS Owasco ( United States Navy).[213]
Maggie Johnston Unknown The schooner was stranded on the coast of California in San Mateo County.[28]
Marens Unknown The brig sank in the James River in Virginia sometime during the American Civil War 91861-1865).[5]
Mary Martin Unknown The schooner was stranded on the coast of California in San Mateo County.[28]
Morning Star II Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The 198-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederates off the coast of Texas.[1]
Matilda  Confederate States of America The schooner was wrecked on the coast of Texas at Matagorda Bay.[204]
Nanjemoy  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The full-rigged ship was sunk with no cargo aboard in shallow water in the Coan River in Virginia while operating as a blockade runner sometime between 1861 and 1863. The armed tug USS Yankee ( United States Navy) refloated her as a prize on 15 July 1863.[148]
Neptune  Confederate States of America The schooner sank in the Hillsborough River near Tampa, Florida.[152]
Nevada  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag in Steamboat Slough upstream from Rio Vista, California, while racing the steamer New World. She then ran into a bank in Cache Slough in quicksand and sank without loss of life.[28]
North  United States The 232-register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in late 1863.[247]
Osiris  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The 145- or 183-ton sidewheel paddle steamer, operated as a ferry by the Confederate Quartermaster Department on the coast of South Carolina between Charleston, Castle Pickney, and Sullivn's Island, was destroyed by a fire allegedly set by Union sympathizers sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[126]
Paul Jones  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River sometime in 1863 while lashed to the sidewheel paddle steamer Charm ( Confederate States of America). Her wreck was burned to the waterline.[248]
Return Unknown The schooner foundered in Lake Erie off Long Point, Ontario.[189]
Rowena  United States The 435-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost on the Mississippi River. She either struck a snag and sank just above Cape Girardeau, Missouri, at either Buffalo Island or Devil Island on 18 April or she burned on 13 May.[184]
Sam Gaty  United States The 294-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Island No. 92 either in September or on 1 October. She later was refloated.[184]
Shawmut Unknown The full-rigged ship was lost at Bird Rock in San Francisco, California.[61]
CSS Slidell  Confederate States Navy The gunboat was lost on the Tennessee River in Tennessee sometime before 6 February.[12]
Stephen Decatur  United States The 308-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Mississippi River at Devil's Island below St. Louis, Missouri, sometime between 1862 and 1865. She later was refloated.[108]
T. W. Roberts  United States American Civil War: The 288-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned at Shreveport, Louisiana, to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[107]
CSS Talomico  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The armed sidewheel paddle steamer sank accidentally at Savannah, Georgia, in 1863.[249][38]
Vermont Unknown The 255-ton steamer was lost, probably in the Great Lakes.[247]
Victoria  United States The four-masted schooner was burned at Port Famine Slough in Mexico in 1863 or 1864.[91]
William B. Romer  United States The pilot schooner was wrecked on submerged rock – later named Romer Shoal – in New York Harbor off New York City sometime during the American Civil War (April 1861–April 1865). One pilot lost his life in the wreck.[162]
Wythe Unknown The schooner sank in the James River in Virginia sometime during the American Civil War (1861-1865).[224]
Unidentified barge  United States Carrying a cargo of coal, the barge was sunk in the Mississippi River off Point Pleasant, Missouri, sometime before 2 December 1863.[81]
Unidentified floating drydock  United States The floating dry dock was burned by Confederate forces on the Mississippi River at Walnut Bend in August or September 1863.[219]
Unidentified schooners  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled a number of schooners as blockships before 7 December to obstruct Skull Creek in South Carolina.[52]

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  59. ^ a b Gaines, p. 25.
  60. ^ a b c d e Gaines, p. 28.
  61. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 30.
  62. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Slidell
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  65. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 41.
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  71. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Thirty-fifth Parallel
  72. ^ Project MUSE: Mississippi River
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  78. ^ a b c d e f g Gaines, p. 23.
  79. ^ Gaines, pp. 23-24.
  80. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Vicksburg
  81. ^ a b Gaines, p. 104.
  82. ^ a b c d e Gaines, p. 113.
  83. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Helen
  84. ^ a b Gaines, p. 129.
  85. ^ Gaines, p. 45.
  86. ^ a b Gaines, p. 19.
  87. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Marion
  88. ^ a b Gaines, p. 151.
  89. ^ Gaines, p. 80.
  90. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Berosa
  91. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 81.
  92. ^ Gaines, p. 150.
  93. ^ a b Gaines, p. 146.
  94. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: J. D. Clarke
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  96. ^ a b Gaines, p. 155.
  97. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 120.
  98. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 74.
  99. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Diana
  100. ^ a b Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Hart
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  103. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 91.
  104. ^ a b c d e Gaines, p. 13.
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  119. ^ Gaines, pp. 100, 105.
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  121. ^ Gaines, p. 99.
  122. ^ Gaines, pp. 50-51.
  123. ^ a b Gaines, p. 168.
  124. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Pargourd
  125. ^ Gaines, p. 31.
  126. ^ a b Gaines, p. 152.
  127. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Mobile
  128. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Republic (side-wheel steamer)
  129. ^ a b Gaines, pp. 85, 88.
  130. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: R. J. Lockland (side-wheel steamer)
  131. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 88.
  132. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Scotland
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  138. ^ Gaines, p. 40.
  139. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 175.
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  141. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Emma Betts
  142. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 84.
  143. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Magenta
  144. ^ a b Gaines, p. 86.
  145. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Stono
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  147. ^ a b Anonymous, "OUR NEW-ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.; Guerrillas Annoying Gen. Banks--Four Steamers Burned--The City Banks in Trouble--An Unsuccessful Assault on Port Hudson--The Wounded Arriving at New Orleans. PORT HUDSON. DEPREDATIONS IN THE GULF," nytimes.com, June 27, 1863
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  153. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 76.
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  158. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 134.
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  160. ^ wrecksite.eu SV Constitution (+1863)
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  163. ^ Gaines, p. 47.
  164. ^ Gaines, pp. 82-83.
  165. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Edward J. Gay
  166. ^ a b Gaines, p. 137.
  167. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Magnolia
  168. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Mary E
  169. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Peytona
  170. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Prince of Wales
  171. ^ Gaines, p. 82.
  172. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Ferd Kennet
  173. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Hartford City
  174. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Colonel Hill
  175. ^ a b Gaines, p. 116.
  176. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Governor Morehead
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  178. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: H. D. Mears
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  181. ^ YvesDufiel (2008). Dictionnaire des naufrages dans la Manche.
  182. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Ben McCulloch
  183. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Cotton Plant
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  185. ^ Gaines, p. 140.
  186. ^ Gaines, p. 117.
  187. ^ Gaines, p. 50.
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  194. ^ Gaines, p. 177.
  195. ^ a b Gaines, pp. 187-188.
  196. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Sharp
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  198. ^ Gaines, p. 8.
  199. ^ Gaines, pp. 8-9.
  200. ^ a b Gaines, p. 9.
  201. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 10.
  202. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: St. Francis No. 3
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  204. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 170.
  205. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 173.
  206. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Phantom
  207. ^ Gaines, p. 126.
  208. ^ Gaines, p. 118.
  209. ^ a b Gaines, p. 42.
  210. ^ Gaines, p. 72.
  211. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Pontchartrain
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  213. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 169.
  214. ^ Gaines, pp. 190, 194.
  215. ^ a b c d Gaines, p. 194.
  216. ^ Gaines, p. 37.
  217. ^ Gaines, p. 130.
  218. ^ Anonymous, "COLLISION ON THE RIVER; The Steamers City of Boston and Oregon. THE OREGON RUN INTO AND SUNK THE PASSENGERS SAVED," nytimes.com, October 23, 1863.
  219. ^ a b c Gaines, p. 105.
  220. ^ Gaines, p. 54.
  221. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Cornubia
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  227. ^ Gaines, p. 46.
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  232. ^ Gaines, pp. 26-27.
  233. ^ Gaines, p. 22.
  234. ^ "Adrien". Pastscape. Historic England. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  235. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Argo
  236. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Argosy
  237. ^ "ARTIZAN". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  238. ^ Gaines, p. 195.
  239. ^ a b Gaines, p. 1.
  240. ^ a b Gaines, p. 26.
  241. ^ "Catalonian". The Yard. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  242. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Charm
  243. ^ Gaines, p. 135.
  244. ^ Gaines, p. 106.
  245. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Grand Duke
  246. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: J. D. Swaim
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  248. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Paul Jones
  249. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Talomico

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