List of shipwrecks in July 1865
The list of shipwrecks in July 1865 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1865.
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31 | Unknown date | |||||
References |
1 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Adolphus | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore in the Rio Grande.[1] |
2 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Adolphe | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore in the Rio Grande.[2] |
Alida | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore in the Rio Grande. She was refloated the next day.[2] |
Espoir | ![]() |
The brigantine was driven ashore in the Rio Grande.[1] She was refloated on 9 July.[2] |
Morue | ![]() |
The lugger was driven ashore in the Rio Grande. She was refloated the next day.[2] |
3 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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O.K. | ![]() |
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 was later salvaged and returned to service.[3] |
Oxford | ![]() |
The barque was driven ashore on Dagö, Russia. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to London, United Kingdom. She was later refloated and taken in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.[4] |
4 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | Flag unknown | The cutter was wrecked on the coast of New South Wales. |
Star of the West | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore on Long Island, British North America. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick to Dundalk, County Louth. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[5] |
5 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Essex | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the full-rigged ship Constantia (![]() |
8 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mars | ![]() |
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.[7] |
9 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Louisiana | ![]() |
American Civil War: While fleeing from the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah (![]() |
11 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Flying Fish | ![]() |
The ship collided with Clara (Flag unknown) and sank off Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. Her crew were rescued.[9] |
Natal | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked in Sealer's Cove, in the Bass Strait. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Wallaroo, South Australia[10] |
Tomatin | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked in Sealer's Cove. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle to Geelong, Victoria.[10] |
13 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Eclipse | ![]() |
The Cormorant-class gunvessel was driven ashore on the coast of Australia. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.[11] |
Fohkien | ![]() |
The 1,947-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on the coast of Korea 60 nautical miles (110 km) from Chinhae.[12] |
Impératrice | ![]() |
The tug was destroyed by a boiler explosion in the Seine at La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, Seine-Inférieure with the loss of five of the thirteen people on board. Survivors were rescued by the steamship Express No.2 (![]() |
Union | ![]() |
The 14-ton cutter was wrecked on a reef in the Hauraki Gulf while en route from Auckland to Matakana. All hands were saved.[15] |
Zeemeuw | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from Terranova di Sicilia, Sicily, Italy to Hamburg. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[6] |
14 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Charles Chaloner | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Fleetwood, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Quebec City. Province of Canada, British North America to Fleetwood. She was refloated and towed in to Fleetwood.[16] |
Lady Young | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was wrecked in Sealer's Cove, in the Bass Strait. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage form Newcastle to Melbourne, Victoria.[10] |
Wyaconda | ![]() |
The 239-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at St. Genevieve, Missouri, with the loss of one life.[17] |
16 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arthur and Albert | ![]() |
The lugger collided with the schooner Agenoria (![]() |
Dennis Hill | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Capo Colonna, Italy.[19] |
Fannie Fisk | ![]() |
The 97-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Cairo, Illinois.[20] |
Ingeborg | ![]() |
The ship suffered an onboard explosion and foundered in the Dogger Bank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Hamburg.[21] |
Steliano | ![]() |
The ship foundered off Şile, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued.[19] |
17 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ada | ![]() |
The barque was run into by the steamship Jeddo (![]() |
Mary B. Rich | ![]() |
The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 900 nautical miles (1,700 km) west of Cape Clear Island, County Cork, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Lady Dufferin (![]() |
Sarah Ann | ![]() |
The schooner was driven ashore on Rabbit Island, Tasmania.[10] |
18 July
19 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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John C. Baxter | ![]() |
The schooner was sunk in a collision near the east end of Horseshoe Shoal.[25] |
Phantom | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked near Cape Nordkyn, Norway. Her crew were rescued.[26] |
Titania | ![]() |
The 54-ton steamer was wrecked on the bar at Hokitika, where she had arrived from Nelson. All passengers and crew survived.[27] |
20 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pisataqua | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Green Point, Cape Town, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Basilan, Spanish East Indies.[28] |
Quinnebaug | ![]() |
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 (![]() ![]() |
Swan | ![]() |
The schooner was lost near Madison Point, Connecticut. Crew saved.[30] |
21 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Admiral Codrington | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[4] |
Hankow | ![]() |
The 725-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Canton, China.[31] |
Kate | ![]() |
The cutter was seized, plundered, and burnt, by a Māori raiding party at Whakatane, with the loss of three lives.[32] |
Marinuru or Maruwiwi | ![]() |
The schooner was seized, plundered, and burnt, by a Māori raiding party at Whakatane, with the loss of one life.[32] |
22 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Neptune | ![]() |
The brig ran aground off Amager, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Dundee, Forfarshire.[33][34][4] |
Ripple | ![]() |
The ship collided with Mary E. Campbell (![]() |
Samuel B. Young | ![]() |
The 154-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was lost.[35] |
24 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Effort | ![]() |
The schooner was wrecked at Awanui during a violent gale.[32] |
Onward | ![]() |
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 (![]() |
26 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Gereon | ![]() |
The schooner capsized in the Baltic Sea with the loss of two of the six people on board. She was towed in to Warnemünde, Prussia in a capsized condition.[19] |
Rosetta | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked on the north coast of Prince Edward Island, British North America.[9] |
28 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Port Wallace | ![]() |
The ship ran aground off Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and towed in to Helsingør.[36] |
29 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ida | ![]() |
The barque collided with the barque Wasa (![]() |
Mary Traill | ![]() |
The ship ran aground off Egilsay, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from the River Clyde to Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. She was refloated.[19] |
Planet | ![]() |
The barque collided with the steamship Aura (![]() |
30 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann and Jane | ![]() |
The ship was beached at Lisbon, Portugal, being severely leaky. She was on a voyage from Pomaron, Portugal to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[19] |
Brother Jonathan | ![]() |
The California Steam Navigation Company paddle steamer struck North West Seal Rock, a part of St. George's Reef in the Pacific Ocean off Crescent City, California, and sank. An estimated 225 passengers and crew lost their lives; there were only nineteen survivors.[40] She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California to Portland, Maine.[41] |
Francis Bourneuf | ![]() |
The ship ran aground at Rutland, County Donegal. She was on a voyage from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to the Clyde.[42] |
31 July
Ship | Country | Description |
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Edwin | ![]() |
The lumber schooner sank about ten miles North East of the Isle of Shoals. Crew saved.[43] |
Glasgow | ![]() |
The full-rigged ship caught fire and was abandoned in the North Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, United States.[44][45] Her crew were rescued by the full-rigged ship Rosamond (![]() ![]() |
Joseph Pierce | ![]() |
The 533-ton sidewheel paddle steamer exploded on the Mississippi River at Palmyra Landing, Mississippi, killing twelve people.[48] |
Rose | ![]() |
The ship departed from Montrose, Forfarshire for Shanghai, China. No further trace, presumed either foundered with the loss of all twenty crew or captured by Chinese pirates.[49] |
Rosetta | ![]() |
The 47-ton schooner grounded on a sandspit at Hokitika. All passengers and crew survived.[27] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Annechina en Jantina | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore near Cronstadt, Russia. She was on a voyage from Bo'ness, Lothian, United Kingdom to Cronstadt.[50] |
Bella Donna | ![]() |
The 152-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South 50 nautical miles (93 km) downstream of Alexandria, Louisiana.[51] |
Chase | ![]() |
The ship sank off Seskar, Russia.[16] |
Dankbarheid | Flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore near Cronstadt. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Cronstadt.[50] |
Exchange | ![]() |
The ship was driven ashore at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Caen, Calvados, France.[16] |
Futien | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked at Shanghai, China on or before 22 July.[52] |
Hadrakon | ![]() |
The steamship was destroyed by fire at Shanghai on or before 22 July.[52] |
La Belle | ![]() |
The fishing smack foundered west of the Shetland Islands with the loss of all six crew.[53] |
Lady of the Lake | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked near Cape San Antonio, Cuba. She was on a voyage from Havana to Manzanilla, Cuba.[39] |
Lalla Rookh | ![]() |
The steamship was wrecked at Shanghai on or before 22 July.[52][54] |
Louisa | ![]() |
The barque caught fire and sank near Algiers, Algeria.[55] |
Maalstrom | ![]() |
The brig was lost in the White Sea before 12 July.[6] |
Mary Emily | ![]() |
The ship foundered 75 nautical miles (139 km) off the Abaco Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Nassau, Bahamas to New York.[33] |
Messenger | ![]() |
The brig was wrecked on Phillips Court.[56] |
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.[57] |
Prince of Wales | ![]() |
The ship foundered off Gogo, India. She was refloated in November and taken in to Bombay.[58] |
Rigi | ![]() |
The barque was wrecked on "Cape Gotto", Japan.[10] |
Star | ![]() |
The 94-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on Red Bayou in Louisiana.[59] |
Susan Abigal | Flag unknown | The full-rigged ship was lost off Cape Flattery, Washington Territory.[60] |
Tonkeen | Flag unknown | The steamship was wrecked off China, probably in the same typhoon as the Lalla Rookh, above (reported September).[54] |
Unicorn | ![]() |
The ship was wrecked near Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Sunderland, County Durham.[50] |
Volunteer | ![]() |
The 106-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was stranded on the Cumberland River in Tennessee.[61] |
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- "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 23736. Edinburgh. 26 July 1865.
- Gaines, p. 99.
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- Gaines, p. 34.
- "France". The Times. No. 25239. London. 17 July 1865. col C-D, p. 12.
- "Explosion of a Steam Tug - Five Persons Killed". The Standard. No. 12774. London. 18 July 1865. p. 7.
- Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 113–114.
- "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5448. Liverpool. 17 July 1865.
- Gaines, p. 104.
- "Yarmouth". Bury and Norwich Post. No. 6585. Bury St. Edmunds. 22 July 1865.
- "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 23747. Edinburgh. 7 August 1865.
- Gaines, p. 53.
- "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 23734. Edinburgh. 24 July 1865.
- "Collision of the S.S. Jeddo with the Ada, Barque. Sinking of the Latter". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney. 21 July 1865. p. 8.
- "Disasters to Liverpool Shipping. Two Vessels Lost". Liverpool Mercury. No. 5502. Liverpool. 18 September 1865.
- "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 23751. Edinburgh. 11 August 1865.
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- Gaines, p. 127.
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- Gaines, p. 35.
- Ingram & Wheatley, p. 114.
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- Gaines, pp. 25-26.
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- "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 23745. Edinburgh. 4 August 1865.
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