List of shipwrecks in 1862

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

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1862
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

2 January

List of shipwrecks: 2 January 1862
Ship Country Description
Northern Light  United States Collided with brig Nouveau St. Jacques ( France) and was abandoned at sea. Nouveau St. Jacques also sank.

9 January

List of shipwrecks: 9 January 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Meteor  United States American Civil War: A sailing ship that was part of the Stone Fleet scuttled at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
USS Potomac  United States American Civil War: A whaler that was part of the Stone Fleet scuttled at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1862
Ship Country Description
Pioneer  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire with the loss of seven of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Galatz, United Principalities to Caernarfon.[1]

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1862
Ship Country Description
USS New England  United States American Civil War: A whaler that was part of the Stone Fleet scuttled at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
USS Peri  United States Navy American Civil War: Sunk as blockship, Charleston, South Carolina.
USS Stephen Young  United States Navy American Civil War: Sunk as blockship, Charleston, South Carolina.

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Timor  United States American Civil War: A ship that was part of the Stone Fleet scuttled at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

28 January

List of shipwrecks: 28 January 1862
Ship Country Description
John & Isabella  United Kingdom The ship struck the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and foundered. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat.[2]

February

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Curlew  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Beached off Roanoke Island, North Carolina after being holed during the Battle of Roanoke Island. Set on fire on 8 February to prevent capture.

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Sea Bird  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Battle of Roanoke Island, rammed and sunk by Commodore Perry ( United States Navy) with the loss of two crew.

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Appomattox  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Set afire to prevent capture.
CSS Fanny  Confederate States of America American Civil War: Ran aground and blown up at Elizabeth City, North Carolina to prevent capture.
CSS Forrest  Confederate States of America American Civil War: A gunboat that was burned to prevent capture at Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1862
Ship Country Description
R. B. Forbes  United States Navy American Civil War: Driven ashore south of Currituck Inlet. Set afire to prevent capture.

March

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1862
Ship Country Description
Cantabria  Belgium Foundered off San Sebastián de La Gomera, Canary Islands.[3]
Victoria & Albert  United Kingdom The schooner foundered on the Mixon Shoal, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of all hands.[4]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Congress  United States Navy American Civil War: Destroyed in battle off with Virginia ( Confederate States of America) and five other ships off Newport News, Virginia. Burnt down to waterline. Hulk raised in September 1865 and sold for demolition.
Wreck of USS Cumberland, 1862
USS Cumberland  United States Navy American Civil War: Rammed and sunk by Virginia ( Confederate States of America) off Newport News, Virginia.

April

19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Signal  United States American Civil War: A gunboat that was scuttled to prevent capture off Alexandria, Louisiana.

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Governor Moore  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: She was a gunboat that took heavy damage in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana. She was scuttled to prevent capture.
CSS Manassas  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: She was an ironclad warship that was run aground by USS Mississippi in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana.
Sweepstakes  United States Ran aground in the Sunda Straits, Dutch East Indies. Refloated later that day but declared a constructive total loss and sold in Batavia for breaking.
USS Varuna  United States American Civil War: A steamship that sank in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Louisiana.

28 April

May

Scuttling of CSS Virginia

11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Virginia  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Battle of Hampton Roads, scuttled to prevent capture, Craney Island, North Carolina

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Jamestown  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: Scuttled as blockship, James River, Virginia.

June

6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1862
Ship Country Description
CSS Colonel Lovell  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: A cottonclad warship that was rammed by USS Queen of the West and USS Monarch in the Battle of Memphis, Tennessee.

July

15 July

List of shipwrecks: 15 July 1862
Ship Country Description
Barque Johanna Wagner  Prussia Wrecked at Strandfontein, South Africa.

August

6 August

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Henry Andrew  United States Navy American Civil War: Driven ashore south of Cape Henry, Virginia and wrecked.

October

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862
Ship Country Description
Alderman Thompson  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked at Cardigan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyuage from Quebec, British North America to Cardigan.[1]

November

20 November

List of shipwrecks: 20 November 1862
Ship Country Description
Hawk  United Kingdom The steamship was driven ashore north of Southwold, Suffolk.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862
Ship Country Description
Harry King  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dunwich, Suffolk.[2]
USS Mingo  United States Navy American Civil War: A steamboat that sunk off Cape Girardeau, Missouri.37°18′54″N 89°30′32″W / 37.315°N 89.509°W / 37.315; -89.509 (USS Mingo (1862))

15 November

List of shipwrecks: 15 November 1862
Ship Country Description
Ellis  United States Navy American Civil War: Set on fire at Jacksonville, North Carolina to prevent capture and destroyed by the explosion of her magazines.

December

12 December

List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Cairo  United States Navy American Civil War: A river gunboat that struck a naval mine in the Yazoo River, Mississippi. The wreck was raised in 1964 and is currently on display at Vicksburg National Military Park.32°22′33″N 90°52′0″W / 32.37583°N 90.86667°W / 32.37583; -90.86667 (USS Cairo (1861))
Engraving showing the sinking of USS Monitor

13 December

List of shipwrecks: 13 December 1862
Ship Country Description
Countess of Lisburn  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked at Cardigan. Her three crew were rescued by the Cardigan Lifeboat.[1]

20 December

List of shipwrecks: 20 December 1862
Ship Country Description
Champion  United Kingdom The brigantine was wrecked on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel. All ten people on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from New Brunswick to Liverpool, Lancashire.[4]

31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Monitor  United States Navy American Civil War: Sank under tow off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina with the loss of 16 crew.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1862
Ship Country Description
USS Noble  United States American Civil War: The barque that was scuttled as a blockship near Savannah, Georgia as part of the Stone Fleet in early 1862.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  3. "Belgian Merchant A-G" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
  4. 1 2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

See also

Ship events in 1862
Ship launches: 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
Ship commissionings: 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
Ship decommissionings: 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
Shipwrecks: 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867
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