List of shipwrecks in July 1865
Appearance
The list of shipwrecks in July 1865 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1865.
July 1865 | |||||||
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | |
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | |
29 | 30 | 31 | Unknown date |
3 July
Ship | State | Description |
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O.K. | United States | Carrying a cargo of wood, the 48- or 75-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Yolo County side of the Sacramento River across from M Street in Sacramento, California. She later was salvaged and returned to service.[1] |
4 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Agnes | Unknown | The cutter was wrecked on the coast of New South Wales, Australia. |
7-8 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Mars | United States | The 329-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Cogswell Island, Missouri, opposite the mouth of the Fishing River.[2] |
13 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Fohkien | United States | The 1,947-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the coast of Korea 60 miles (97 km) from Chinhae.[3] |
Union | New Zealand | The 14-ton cutter was wrecked on a reef in the Hauraki Gulf while en route from Auckland to Matakana. All hands were saved.[4] |
14 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Wyaconda | United States | The 239-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at St. Genevieve, Missouri, with the loss of one life.[5] |
16 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Fannie Fisk | United States | The 97-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois.[6] |
19 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Titania | New Zealand | The 54-ton steamer was wrecked on the bar at Hokitika, where she had arrived from Nelson. All passengers and crew survived.[7] |
20 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Quinnebaug | United States Army | Carrying Union Army soldiers home from Beaufort, North Carolina, the 186-ton screw transport was wrecked on a reef off Shackleford Banks, North Carolina, with the loss of 25 lives. The tug Goliath ( United States Army), the full-rigged ship Benjamin Adams (flag unknown), and the survey ship USCS Corwin ( United States Coast Survey) rescued her survivors.[8] |
21 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Hankow | United States | The 725-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Canton, China.[9] |
Kate | New Zealand | The cutter was seized, plundered, and burnt, by a Māori raiding party at Whakatane, with the loss of three lives. [10] |
Marinuru or Maruwiwi | New Zealand | The schooner was seized, plundered, and burnt, by a Māori raiding party at Whakatane, with the loss of one lives. [10] |
22 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Samuel B. Young | United States | The 154-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost.[11] |
24 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Effort | New Zealand | The schooner was wrecked at Awanui during a violent gale.[10] |
Onward | New Zealand | The schooner was wrecked on an island near Pauanui on Coromandel Peninsula. The two crew were marooned for four days before being rescued by the schooner Jane.[10] |
30 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Brother Jonathan | United States | The California Steam Navigation Company paddle steamer struck North West Seal Rock, a part of St. George's Reef in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California near Crescent City, and sank. An estimated 225 passengers and crew lost their lives; there were only 19 survivors.[12] |
31 July
Ship | State | Description |
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Glasgow | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship caught fire and was abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.[13][14] |
Joseph Pierce | United States | The 533-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded on the Mississippi River at Palmyra Landing, Mississippi, killing 12 people.[15] |
Rosetta | New Zealand | The 47-ton schooner grounded on a sandspit at Hokitika. All passengers and crew survived.[7] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Bella Donna | United States | The 152-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South in Louisiana 50 miles (81 km) below Alexandria.[16] |
New Zealand | New Zealand | The 374-ton paddle steamer damaged her keel when crossing the bar at Hokitika, where she had travelled from Lyttelton. She became uncontrollable, and grounded on a nearby beach. All passengers and crew survived.[17] |
Star | United States | The 94-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on Red Bayou in Louisiana.[18] |
Susan Abigal | Unknown | The full-rigged ship was lost off Cape Flattery on the coast of Washington Territory.[19] |
Volunteer | United States | The 106-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Cumberland River in Tennessee.[20] |
References
Notes
- ^ Gaines, p. 30.
- ^ Gaines, p. 99.
- ^ Gaines, p. 34.
- ^ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 113–114.
- ^ Gaines, p. 104.
- ^ Gaines, p. 53.
- ^ a b Ingram & Wheatley, p. 120.
- ^ Gaines, p. 127.
- ^ Gaines, p. 35.
- ^ a b c d Ingram & Wheatley, p. 114.
- ^ Gaines, p. 197.
- ^ Gaines, pp. 25-26.
- ^ "GLASGOW". Clydesite. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
- ^ Gaines, p. 79.
- ^ Gaines, p. 98.
- ^ Gaines, p. 60.
- ^ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 120–121.
- ^ Gaines, p. 74.
- ^ Gaines, p. 195.
- ^ Gaines, p. 164.
Bibliography
- Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
- Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.