List of shipwrecks in 1865

The list of shipwrecks in 1865 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1865.

January

13 January

List of shipwrecks: 13 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Billy	United Kingdom	The brig was wrecked off Southwold, Suffolk with the loss of all six crew.[1]
Brazilie Packet	Netherlands	The brig parted her cables when anchored near the Brisons, off Cornwall and went on the rocks at Progo Cove, Cape Cornwall with the loss of all the crew. She was on her way from Rio Grande to Falmouth, Cornwall carrying hides and horns.[2]
Henrietta	United Kingdom	The sloop hit Barrel Point while attempting to cross Hayle Bar, in St Ives Bay, Cornwall with the loss of all the crew, and the pilot.[2]

14 January

List of shipwrecks: 14 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Ceres	United Kingdom	While carrying roof slate to Hayle the brigantine broke her moorings while in Boscastle, Cornwall and ran up the beach during hurricane-force winds. She was badly damaged on the next tide and became a wreck.[2]
Elizabeth Jane	United Kingdom	The schooner parted her moorings and was driven out of Newquay harbour and onto Towan Beach, north Cornwall.[2]
Lelia	United Kingdom	The cutter was wrecked on Great Orme Head, Caernarfonshire.[3]

15 January

List of shipwrecks: 15 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Juanito	Spain	Lost her way while carrying sugar and molasses from Cardenas to Greenock and struck the rocks at Duckpool, north of Bude Haven with the loss on one crew.[2]
USS Patapsco	United States	Struck a naval mine at Charleston, South Carolina during the American Civil War. 32°45′55″N 79°53′29″W / 32.765252°N 79.891281°W / 32.765252; -79.891281 (USS Patapsco (1862))

17 January

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Columbian	United Kingdom	The West India and Pacific Steamship Company owned 1,100 ton iron screw steamer was blown onto rocks and wrecked by a hurricane off the island of Ushant, Brittany, France.[4]

24 January

List of shipwrecks: 24 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Drewry	Confederate States Navy	The gunboat was wrecked during the Battle of Trent's Reach, Virginia.

25 January

List of shipwrecks: 25 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Armenian	United Kingdom	The Elder, Dempster & Co cargo ship ran onto the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow and was wrecked with the loss of four lives. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Montague ( United Kingdom). Four crew of the Arklow Lightship ( United Kingdom) were lost attempting a rescue.[5]

26 January

List of shipwrecks: 26 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Francis & Ann	Jersey	The schooner struck the Helwick Shoal, in the Bristol Channel and was abandoned by her crew, who reached the Helwick Lightship ( United Kingdom), from where they were rescued. Francis and Ann came ashore at Overton, Glamorgan.[3]

27 January

List of shipwrecks: 27 January 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Eclipse	United States of America	The Mississippi River steamboat exploded near Johnsonville.[6]
Robin Hood	United Kingdom	The pilot cutter was run down in the Bristol Channel off Ilfracombe, Devon. Her crew were rescued. The wreck came ashore at Langland, Glamorgan.[3]

February

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Charleston	Confederate States Navy	The ironclad warship was scuttled at Charleston, South Carolina to prevent capture during the American Civil War. 32°47′29″N 79°55′21″W / 32.79139°N 79.92250°W / 32.79139; -79.92250 (CSS Charlestown)

March

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Neuse	Confederate States Navy	The steam-powered ironclad ram was deliberately burned to avoid capture in Neuse River. 35°16′1.33″N 77°37′17.8″W / 35.2670361°N 77.621611°W / 35.2670361; -77.621611 (CSS Neuse)

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1865

Ship	Country	Description
General Lyon	United States of America	The transport vessel burned and sank off North Carolina coast. Of an estimated 550 to 500 passengers and crew only about 29 survived. [7]

April

1 April

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Bertrand	United States	The steamboat sank in the Desoto Bend of the Missouri River.41°31′24″N 96°1′44″W / 41.52333°N 96.02889°W / 41.52333; -96.02889 (Bertrand (steamboat))

4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Fredericksburg	Confederate States Navy	The ironclad warship was scuttled in the James River, Virginia to prevent capture during the American Civil War.

12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Huntsville	Confederate States Navy	The ironclad warship was scuttled in Spanish River to avoid capture. 30°46′09″N 88°01′14″W / 30.76924°N 88.02053°W / 30.76924; -88.02053 (CSS Huntsville)
CSS Tuscaloosa	Confederate States Navy	The ironclad warship was scuttled in Spanish River to avoid capture. 30°46′09″N 88°01′14″W / 30.76924°N 88.02053°W / 30.76924; -88.02053 (CSS Tuscaloosa (ironclad))

16 April

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1865

Ship	Country	Description
CSS Muscogee	Confederate States Navy	The Confederate ironclad ram was captured and burned off the coast of Georgia, USA.

27 April

Sultana.

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Sultana	United States	The steamboat paddlewheeler was destroyed 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee after a boiler explosion. An estimated 1,800 passengers and crew lost their lives.

May

8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Mary	United Kingdom	The crew of the 97 ton Beaumaris schooner carrying china clay from Par, Cornwall to Runcorn survived when she struck the Runnel Stone.[8]

June

1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1865

Ship	Country	Description
James Dunn	United Kingdom	of Truro, Cornwall was in collision with a large barque during the night off Higher Sharpnose, Morwenstow while en route to Swansea with copper ore.[2]

July

30 July

List of shipwrecks: 30 July 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Brother Jonathon	United States	The California Steam Navigation Company paddlewheeler crashed onto an uncharted rock at Crescent City, California. An estimated 225 passengers and crew lost their lives; there were only nineteen survivors

August

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Smerch	Russian Navy	Struck an uncharted rock and sank off Finland.

23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Argosy # 3	United States	Went aground and exploded at Hatfield Landing Ky 80 miles below Louisville, Ky. Estimated 10 died.[9]

October

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Duncan Dunbar	United Kingdom	Struck a reef at Rocas Atoll in the South Atlantic Ocean, 269 miles (433 km) northeast of Recife. Good discipline and seamanship enabled the full complement of some 80 passengers and crew to be rescued after 10 days on a barren islet.[10]

25 October

List of shipwrecks: 25 October 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Republic	United States	Sank in a hurricane approximately 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Savannah, Georgia.

28 October

List of shipwrecks: 28 October 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Edith	United Kingdom	The brig dragged her anchors and came ashore at Castle Point, St Mawes, Cornwall.[2]

November

22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Rhedertenden	Norway	The Porsgrund brig was washed out of the harbour at St Michael's Mount and wrecked on Marazion beach, Cornwall.[11][2]

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Adele	United Kingdom	During a gale the schooner drifted out of the harbour at St Michael's Mount and was driven onto the beach at Marazion, Cornwall. She was carrying china clay from Charlestown, Cornwall to Runcorn.[2]
Constance	France	The lugger was carrying barley from Saint-Malo to Cardiff and was driven ashore two miles west of Polperro, Cornwall. The master and boy were saved and two drowned.[2]

24 November

List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Annie Lee	United Kingdom	The crew of the barque were save when she sank after dragging her anchors and fouling the chains of the Italian barque Emilie Barbame outside the Black Rock, Cornwall. She was out of Taganrog with wheat.[2]
Santesto	Brazil	The barque was wrecked at Gunwalloe in Mount's Bay, Cornwall.[12][2]
Spagna	Kingdom of Italy	The brig carrying wheat from Taganrog to Falmouth, Cornwall was embayed in SSW hurricane force winds and wrecked under Perran Cliff in Mount's Bay.[2]
Tobaco	Prussia	The crew of the brigantine, bar one, was saved by the rocket apparatus and the lifeboat Richard Lewis ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) at Long Rock, Mount's Bay. She was carrying logs from Tobasko to Hamburg.[13][2]
William	United Kingdom	The 325 ton Sunderland barque was carrying linseed from Odessa to Falmouth, Cornwall when she had to run for shelter at Porthleven, Cornwall. The ship came to rest with her stern overhanging the quay and road, and all bar two of the crew climbed to safety.[12][14]

28 November

List of shipwrecks: 28 November 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Susan	United Kingdom	The dandy carrying creosote, became stranded and lost in a force 8 northerly gale eight miles ESE (sic) of Trevose Head, Cornwall.[2]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Argo	Portugal	The barque was abandoned off the Tusker Rock, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived. Argo was later retrieved by the Porthcawl Lifeboat.[3]
Black Diamond	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Bridport, Dorset.[15]
Resolution	United Kingdom	The schooner foundered near Land's End, Cornwall.[2]

December

29 December

List of shipwrecks: 29 December 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Juliet	United Kingdom	The barque, while carrying sugar and 400 casks of rum from Demerara to London, was making for Padstow Harbour and drifted ashore. The crew were saved by the Padstow lifeboat and 280 casks of rum was salvaged later.[2]

unknown date

List of shipwrecks: unknown date 1865

Ship	Country	Description
Carioca	France	struck the rocks under Hermitage Rock Battery in Alderney Channel Islands in late December 1865. Gunner James Moore of the Royal Artillery in Alderney rescued 17 men of the crew; he was later awarded an RNLI Silver Medal. [16]

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