List of shipwrecks in 1864
The list of shipwrecks in 1864 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1864.
1864 | |||
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Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr |
May | Jun | Jul | Aug |
Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
January
3 January
Ship | Country | Description |
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Grafton | United Kingdom | The Schooner was wrecked in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island. Some members of the crew survived |
February
10 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Peri | United Kingdom | The brigantine was wrecked at Skysea, Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued.[1] |
17 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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H. L. Hunley | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: The submarine sank after ramming USS Housatonic in Charleston, South Carolina. She was lost with all hands.32°44′N 79°46′W / 32.733°N 79.767°W |
USS Housatonic | United States | American Civil War: The Sloop-of-war was sunk by Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley off Charleston, South Carolina32°43′7″N 79°48′17″W / 32.71861°N 79.80472°W |
22 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Linden | United States | A steamer sunk after striking a snag on the Arkansas River. |
March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Susan Douglas | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked at Samasana, off Formosa. The captain[2] and at least 10 crew survived. The crew were picked up from Samasana by HM gunboat Bustard[3][4] |
28 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Kingfisher | United States | American Civil War: A barque that ran aground on the banks of the Combahee River, South Carolina. |
April
1 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Rodolph | United States | American Civil War: A Union stern-wheel tinclad minesweeper and gunboat sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) in Mobile Bay. |
USS Maple Leaf | United States | American Civil War: The troopship struck a naval mine near Jacksonville.[5][6] |
15 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Eastport | United States | American Civil War: The steamer was sunk by a Confederate mine on the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was destroyed on 26 April to prevent her capture by he enemy. |
19 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Signal | United States | American Civil War: A gunboat that was scuttled to prevent capture off Alexandria, Louisiana. |
22 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Petrel | United States | American Civil War: A steamboat that was burned in the Yazoo River, Mississippi. |
30 April
Ship | Country | Description |
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Grecian | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked upon Nine Mile Beach, New South Wales, Australia. |
May
3 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jean Goujon | France | Sailing from Havanna bound for Le Havre with a cargo of sugar, in a storm, at night, the Captain mistook his position and steered south of the rocks he thought were the Les Casquets. They were in fact the Écréhous and in doing so he ran onto the rocks off Jersey Channel Islands. The crew was saved. [7] |
5 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Covington | United States | American Civil War: A gunboat that was scuttled to prevent capture off Alexandria. |
11 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Invercauld | United Kingdom | The sailing ship was wrecked on the Auckland Islands. Some members of the crew survived |
Aster | United States | American Civil War: The tug ran aground on Carolina Shoals. She was subsequently burnt to prevent capture. |
August
5 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Gaines | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: The Confederate side-wheel gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay. |
USS Philippi | United States | American Civil War: A Union side-wheel gunboat sunk in Mobile Bay after heavy damage during the Battle of Mobile Bay.30°23′01″N 88°02′00″W / 30.3835°N 88.0334°W |
USS Tecumseh | United States | American Civil War: A Union monitor warship sunk by a naval mine (called a "torpedo" at the time) during the Battle of Mobile Bay.30°13′54″N 88°1′33″W / 30.23167°N 88.02583°W |
7 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Phoenix | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: A Confederate ironclad warship scuttled at Dog River.30°36′08″N 88°02′19″W / 30.60231°N 88.03860°W |
31 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Bowers | Confederate States of America | American Civil War: Iron-hulled sidewheel steamer of 680 tons, stranded on the wreck of CSS Georgiana while attempting to run the federal blockade into Charleston, South Carolina.32°46′47″N 79°45′35″W / 32.77972°N 79.75972°W |
September
18 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary | United States | The barque was wrecked in Uda Gulf in the western Sea of Okhotsk during a gale. She was sold to Otto Wilhelm Lindholm, who salvaged some of the wreck the following year.[8][9] |
19 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Industrious | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked off Port Eynon, Glamorgan. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Llanelli, Glamorgan to Malta.[1] |
27 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS North Carolina | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: A gunboat that sank off Southport, North Carolina.33°54′49″N 78°1′8″W / 33.91361°N 78.01889°W |
November
18 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Desirée | France | The smack was driven ashore in Oxwich Bay. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Le Havre, Seine-Maritime to Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[1] |
Hectorine | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Llangennith, Glamorgan. Her crew survived.[1] |
The Lady of the Lake | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in Oxwich Bay.[1] |
28 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Florida | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: A cruiser that collided with USAT Alliance at Newport News, Virginia.37°04′24″N 76°32′35″W / 37.0732°N 76.5431°W |
December
19 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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USS Water Witch | United States | American Civil War: A sidewheel gunboat was burned to avoid capture at White Bluff. |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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CSS Georgia | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: A Civil War ironclad floating battery was scuttled off Savannah.32°5′5″N 81°2′9″W / 32.08472°N 81.03583°W |
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ↑ "Part Two: The Wreck of the SS President Hoover". SS President Hoover. The Takao Club. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Otago Daily Times. 29 September 1864. p. 4.
- ↑ "(untitled)". The Southland Times. 1 October 1864. p. 2.
- ↑ Barnette, Michael C. (2008). Florida's Shipwrecks. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5413-6.
- ↑ FJ Cantelas, BA Rodgers (1997). "Tools, Techniques, and Zero Visibility Archaeology". In: EJ Maney, Jr and CH Ellis, Jr (Eds.) the Diving for Science...1997, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Seventeenth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Retrieved 6 June 2009.
- ↑ "The Wreck of the Jean Goujon".
- ↑ The Friend (Vol. 21, No. 12, 5 December 1864).
- ↑ Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing.
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Ship launches: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Ship commissionings: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
Shipwrecks: | 1859 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 |
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