List of shipwrecks in November 1862
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The list of shipwrecks in November 1862 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1862.
November 1862 | ||||||
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8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
29 | 30 | Unknown date |
1 November
Ship | State | Description |
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CSS A. B. Seagar | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: Pursued by a United States Navy flotilla, the gunboat, also referred to as CSS Segar, CSS Seger, and CSS Segur, was run aground by her crew and abandoned on the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana near Berwick Bay. She was captured and placed in service by Union forces.[1] |
2 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Levi Starbuck | United States | American Civil War: The 376-ton whaler was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda near 35°40′N 66°000′W / 35.667°N 66.000°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][4] |
Pathfinder | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of boots, shoes, cutlery, salt, olive oil, liquor, and other goods, the schooner ran aground at Shallotte Inlet on the coast of North Carolina. Her crew set her afire and abandoned ship. Men from Penobscot boarded her and extinguished the fire, but then burned her when they could not refloat her.[5][6] |
4 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Robert Wilbur | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[5][7] |
Sophia | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of rifled field artillery pieces, salt, soda ash, saltpeter, small arms, and ammunition, the 375-ton bark was forced aground 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 km) west of Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the armed screw steamers USS Daylight and USS Mount Vernon (both United States Navy). Boarding parties from Daylight and Mount Vernon then burned her.[5][8] |
Unidentified schooner | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[9] |
Unidentified sloop | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was captured and burned in Nomini Creek in Virginia off the Potomac River, by a boat crew in a launch from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Jacob Bell ( United States Navy).[9] |
5 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was run aground and destroyed on the coast of North Carolina off New Inlet by the armed screw steamers USS Daylight and USS Mount Vernon (both United States Navy).[10] |
7 November
Ship | State | Description |
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J. P. Smith | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was hard aground in Bayou Cheval, Louisiana, when she was burned by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Kinsman ( United States Navy) and the steamer Seger ( United States).[5][11] |
Osprey | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer was burned in Bayou Cheval, Louisiana, by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Kinsman ( United States Navy) and the steamer Seger ( United States).[5] |
Unidentified schooner | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned on the Little Ogeechee River in Georgia to prevent her capture by the approaching screw steamer USS Dawn and gunboat USS Wissahickon (both United States Navy).[12] |
8 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Tamar | Tasmania | The schooner, carrying 29 passengers and cargo including timber and building stone, went onto rocks at the entrance to Otago Harbour New Zealand while en route from Hobart to Port Chalmers. All passengers and crew survived, but the cargo was mostly lost.[13] |
Thomas B. Wales | United States | American Civil War: The 599-ton ship, carrying jute, linseed, and 1,704 bags of saltpeter, was captured and burned in the North Atlantic Ocean southeast of Bermuda at 29°15′N 57°57′W / 29.250°N 57.950°W by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][14] |
14 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Victoria | Confederate States | American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of ammunition, the 487-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire and blown up off Last Island in Atchafalaya Bay off Louisiana.[15] |
17 November
Ship | State | Description |
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F. W. Pindar (or J. W. Pindar) | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Cambridge ( United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, the schooner ran aground at Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina. A boat crew from Cambridge then burned F. W. Pindar. On its way back to Cambridge, the boat was swamped, and its crew was captured by Confederate forces.[5][16] |
Unidentified brig | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer USS Daylight ( United States Navy), the brig ran aground in fog on the coast of North Carolina near Fort Fisher.[17] |
Unidentified schooner | Confederate States | American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboats USS Kanawha and USS Kennebec (both United States Navy) while attempting to run the Union blockade, the schooner was run aground and destroyed by her crew on the coast of Alabama near Mobile.[3] |
18 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Ann Maria | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, flour, sugar, and lard, the schooner was forced aground near Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy). She bilged, broke up, was set afire, and sank in 24 feet (7.3 meters) of water.[5][18] |
Ariel | United Kingdom | American Civil War, Union blockade: While attempting to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt, flour, sugar, and lard, the schooner was forced aground near Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, by the screw steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy). Monticello burnedhe the next day.[5][19] |
Kate | Confederate States | The schooner struck a snag and sank on the Cape Fear River Bar off North Carolina.[20] |
19 November
Ship | State | Description |
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LaClede | United States | The 179-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois.[21] |
20 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Emma Tuttle | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of rosin, the schooner was captured and burned by the armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon ( United States Navy) off the coast of North Carolina 7 nautical miles (13 km) southeast of Fort Fisher.[22] |
Hawk | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore north of Southwold, Suffolk, England.[23] |
Pearl | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of turpentine, rosin, and shingles, the schooner was leaking so badly while under tow by the gunboat USS Chocura ( United States Navy) that she was set afire and abandoned. Chocura had captured her in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina on 19 November at 33°38′N 078°19′W / 33.633°N 78.317°W. The armed screw steamer USS Mount Vernon ( United States Navy) later found Pearl adrift and took her in tow, but Pearl capsized and sank.[24] |
23 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Brown Dick | United States | The 55-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was destroyed by fire while being dismantled at Wheeling, Virginia, drifting down the Ohio River after she caught fire.[25] |
Unidentified schooner | Unknown | American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and turpentine, the schooner was burned by Confederate frces on the coast of North Carolina about 5 miles (8 km) from the mouth of New River Inlet when the gunboat USS Ellis ( United States Navy) approached.[10] |
24 November
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Ellis | United States Navy | American Civil War: The 100-ton sidewheel gunboat ran aground about 5 miles (8 km) up the New River Inlet at Jacksonville, North Carolina, and was holed by Confederate artillery fire. Her crew set her on fire on 25 November to prevent her capture by Confederate forces and abandoned her, and the explosion of her ammunition magazine when the flames reached it destroyed her.[26] |
25 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Unnamed gunboat | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: The incomplete gunboat was burned on the stocks on the North River in Virginia by an expedition from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the armed tug USS General Putnam (both United States Navy).[27] |
Two unidentified schooners | Confederate States | American Civil War: The schooners was burned on the North River in Virginia by an expedition from the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Mahaska and the armed tug USS General Putnam (both United States Navy).[28] |
27 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Lone Star | United States | American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of sugar, the steamer was captured on the Mississippi River below Plaquemine, Louisiana, by the Terrell Dragoons Mississippi Cavalry Regiment ( Confederate States Army), then burned 10 miles (16 km) further downstream.[29] |
30 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Parker Cook | United States | American Civil War: The 136-ton bark, carrying a cargo of pork, beef, butter, cheese, and bread to Aux Cayes Haiti, was captured and burned off Cape Rafael, Santo Domingo, by the screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama ( Confederate States Navy).[2][3][30] |
Unidentified flat-bottomed boat | United States | American Civil War, Union blockade: The Flat-bottomed boat was destroyed at the head of Floods Creek in Virginia by the armed schooner USS Dan Smith ( United States Navy).[27] |
Unknown date
References
Notes
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: A. B. Seagar
- ^ a b c Ahoy - Mac's Web Log "Marauders of the Sea, Confederate Merchant Raiders During the American Civil War: CSS Alabama. 1862-1864. Captain Raphael Semmes"
- ^ a b c d usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862
- ^ Gaines, p. 22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1862
- ^ Gaines, p. 125.
- ^ Gaines, p. 187.
- ^ Gaines, p. 128.
- ^ a b Gaines, p. 193.
- ^ a b Gaines, p. 132.
- ^ Gaines, p. 68.
- ^ Gaines, p. 52.
- ^ Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 82–83.
- ^ Gaines, p. 16.
- ^ Gaines, p. 75.
- ^ Gaines, pp. 121-122.
- ^ Gaines, p. 131.
- ^ Gaines, p. 113.
- ^ Gaines, p. 114.
- ^ Gaines, p. 122.
- ^ Gaines, p. 98.
- ^ Gaines, p. 119.
- ^ a b Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ Gaines, p. 126.
- ^ Gaines, p. 134.
- ^ Gaines, p. 118.
- ^ a b Gaines, p. 191.
- ^ Gaines, p. 192.
- ^ Gaines, p. 69.
- ^ Gaines, p. 34.
- ^ Gaines, p. 57.
- ^ Gaines, p. 116.
- ^ Gaines, p. 26.
- ^ Gaines, p. 94.
- ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Flycatcher
- ^ Gaines, p. 65.
- ^ Gaines, p. 30.
- ^ Gaines, p. 76.
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.