List of shipwrecks in June 1862

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

1 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Clara Rosa Sutel  United States The barque ran aground off "Cojovo", Venezuela and was plundered by the local inhabitants. She was subsequently refloated with the assistance of a Venezuelan warship and two merchant ships.[1]
D. B. Sexton  United Kingdom The ship departed from Cardiff, Glamorgan for Barcelona, Spain. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[2]
Janet Willis  United Kingdom The ship departed from Calcutta, India for Hamburg. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[3]
Louisiana Bell  Confederate States of America The 89-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Red River of the South in Louisiana. She was repaired and returned to service.[4]
Rapid  United Kingdom The brig foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Balders ( Norway). Rapid was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Gothenburg, Sweden.[5]

2 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Tasmanian United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Tasmania The steamship ran aground and was wrecked at Wairoa, New Zealand.[6][7]

3 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Carrie Ladd  United States The 128-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Columbia River in Oregon about 18 miles (29 km) below the Cascades Rapids.[8]

4 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Arrow  Confederate States Army American Civil War: The gunboat was burned on the West Pearl River in Louisiana to prevent her capture by Union forces.
Eliza  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Souter Point, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Montrose, Forfarshire. She was refloated the next day and put back to Sunderland.[9]
Happy Return  United Kingdom The schooner struck a sunken rock in the Sound of Mull. she was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Dublin. She put in to Tobermory, Isle of Mull, where she sank.[9]
Heilige Willebrodus  Netherlands The brig ran aground on the Lammock, 20 nautical miles (37 km) south east of Swatow, China.[10]

5 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Erin  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Moville, County Donegal.[5][11] She had been refloated by 14 June.[12]
Harriet  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Moville.[5] She had been refloated by 14 June.[12]
Havana, or
Havanah 		 Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The screw steamer was set afire by her crew at on the coast of Florida to prevent her capture by the schooner USS Isilda ( United States Navy).[13]
Rathsay  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the south coast of Chile.[14]
Sovereign  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground and was captured by a United States Navy tug near on the Mississippi River. She was refloated and placed in Union service.[15]
St. Olaff  Norway The barque ran aground in Table Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Calcutta, India. She was later refloated.[16] Although condemned, she was sold, repaired and returned to service as Crusader (Flag unknown).[17]
Tennessee  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The incomplete ironclad ram was burned prior to launching at Memphis, Tennessee, to prevent her capture by Union forces.

6 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Ariel  United Kingdom The brig sprang a leak and foundered in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Neath, Glamorgan to London.[11][9]
CSS Colonel Lovell  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram sank in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, after being rammed by the sidewheel rams Queen of the West and Monarch (both  United States Army). Six or seven of her crew survived.[18]
Gordon Grant  United States The 41-ton screw steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.[19]
CSS General Beauregard  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram exploded and sank with heavy loss of life in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee after a shot by the casemate ironclad USS Benton ( United States Army) hit her boiler, scalding many of her crew. Her survivors were taken prisoner by Benton and the sidewheel ram USS Monarch ( United States Army)
CSS General Bragg  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram ran aground in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee and was captured by Union forces. She was refloated, repaired, and placed in service as USS General Bragg.
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: Heavily damaged by shell hits and burning, the cottonclad ram ran aground in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, and was abandoned by her crew. She burned to the waterline and exploded when the flames detonated her ammunition magazine.
CSS General Sterling Price  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: The cottonclad ram sank on a sandbar in the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, after colliding with the ram CSS General Beauregard ( Confederate States Navy) and being rammed by the casemate ironclad USS Benton ( United States Army). She was seized by Union forces, raised, repaired, and placed in United States Navy service as USS General Price.[20]
CSS General Sumter  Confederate States Navy American Civil War, First Battle of Memphis: Badly damaged, the cottonclad ram ran aground on the Arkansas shore of the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee, and was captured by Union forces. She was refloated, repaired, and placed in United States Navy service as USS Sumter'.
CSS Little Rebel  Confederate States Navy American Civil War], First Battle of Memphis: Hit in her boilers by gunfire from the casemate ironclad USS Carondelet ( United States Army), the cottonclad ram was rammed and driven ashore by the sidewheel ram USS Monarch ( United States Army) on the Mississippi River just above Memphis, Tennessee. Abandoned by her surviving crew, she was captured by Union forces, refloated, repaired, and placed in United States Navy service as USS Little Rebel.
Moose  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and was beached at Black Pill, Glamorgan, where she capsized and was wrecked. Her crew survived.[11]
Oriel  United Kingdom The ship foundered off Hartland Point, Devon. Her crew survived. she was on a voyage from Neath, Glamorgan to London.[21]

7 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Czar  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on Stoneskar, Russia. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Cronstadt, Russia. She was refloated the next day with assistance from the frigate ( Imperial Russian Navy). and taken in to Cronstadt.[12]
George and Alexander  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Aberdeen Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Inverness to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[22]
James Gibbs  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on Seskar, Russia. She was abandoned by her twenty crew the next day. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Cronstadt, Russia.[23][11] Her captain was subsequently charged with wilfully wrecking the vessel.[24]
Kingston  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Her crew were rescued.[21] She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Cardiff, Glamorgan.[11]
Surinam Netherlands Surinam The ship ran aground in a river in Surinam. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to a port in Surinam. She was refloated on 9 June and taken in to port in a sinking condition.[1]
 United Kingdom The steamship ran aground on Nickman's Ground, in the Baltic Sea and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Cronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.[21][25][26]

8 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1862
Ship Country Description
A. and A.  United Kingdom The full-rigged ship was driven onto a reef off Isla Cardona, Puerto Rico in a squall. She was on a voyage from to Liverpool, Lancashire.[27]
Mary  United Kingdom The smack struck a sunken wreck off the Farne Islands, Northumberland. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from London to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[21] Mary was towed in to South Shields, County Durham on 16 June by the tugs Leander and (both  United Kingdom).[12]
Ranger  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Gronhoe", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She wa on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Cronstadt, Russia.[21]
Sereta Flag unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The 30-ton schooner, loaded with a cargo of fruit and salt, was burned by the gunboat USS Penobscot ( United States Navy), which discovered her aground and abandoned off Shallotte Inlet, North Carolina. Confederate States of America.[28][29]

9 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Lebanon  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the schooner Mountaineer ( United Kingdom). Lebanon was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Belfast, County Antrim.[30][31][32]
Scuppernong  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer, loaded with a cargo of timber intended for use in building a steamer, was burned below a bridge in , by a boat expedition from the gunboat USS Commodore Perry ( United States Navy).[29]

10 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Elidir  United Kingdom The ship struck the Gainer Rock and was abandoned by her crew. She subsequently came ashore in Dungarvon Bay in a severely damaged condition. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Cork.[33][9]

11 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Fairy  United Kingdom The schooner foundered 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south west of the Tuskar Rock with the loss of one of her four crew. She was on a voyage from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire to Newport, Monmouthshire.[22][34][35]
Freden Kohl  Sweden The schooner sank in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Amalia (Flag unknown).[30]
Futtah Robman Flag of the British East India Company (1707).svg India The ship was wrecked in the Hooghly River.[36]
Jane & Elizabeth  United Kingdom The brig collided with the brigantine D'Illion ( United Kingdom) and was consequently beached on the Shingles, off the Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated and taken in to Cowes, Isle of Wight in a severely leaky condition.[9]

12 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Fortitude  United Kingdom The ship ran aground at Archangelsk, Russia. She was on a voyage from Archangelsk to London. She subsequently broke up.[37]
Swift  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore in the Scheldt. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated the next day and towed back to Antwerp.[34]

13 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Elizabeth  France The brig was wrecked at the Pointe de la Coubre, at the mouth of the Gironde with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to New York, United States.[38][9]
 United Kingdom The paddle tug was run into by the schooner Ann & Isabella ( United Kingdom) and was consequently beached at South Shields, County Durham.[9]
Rover  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on the Anse de Plombl, off the Île de Ré, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued.[12][9]

15 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Valleyfield  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on a reef off the Green Point Lighthouse, Cape Town, Cape Colony with the loss of nine lives. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony.[39][40]
Virginia  United Kingdom The ship was driven into Zouave ( United Kingdom at Bombay, India and was severely damaged.[41]

16 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Anna Smith  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, lumber, and other goods, the schooner was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida, by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( United States Navy.[42]
Dudley  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of turpentine and rosin, the 57-ton sloop was destroyed at Cedar Key, Florida by the gunboat USS Hatteras ( United States Navy.[43]
Eliza G.  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[28][44]
 Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The steamer was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[28][45]
CSS Maurepas  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The gunboat, a sidewheel paddle steamer, was scuttled as a blockship in the White River near St. Charles, Arkansas.[28][46]
Rosa  United Kingdom The brig ran aground at the mouth of the River Tyne. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to London. She was refloated and put back to North Shields in a severely leaky condition.[9]

17 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Cecile  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo for the Confederate States Navy of cannons, ammunition wagons, knapsacks, harnesses, rifle-muskets, and gunpowder on a blockade-running voyage, the 460-Gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in ten minutes after striking a reef off the Abaco Islands in the in the northern Bahamas near the and .[47]
Cortes  United States The 1,117-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Shanghai, China.[48]
James Pilkington  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Bassein, India with the loss of two of the 33 people on board She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India.[49][50]
L. N. H. Vindt Gdansk flag.svg Dantzic The steamship ran aground off Brielle, North Holland, Netherlands.[38]

18 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Venus  United Kingdom The sloop collided with a brigantine and sank in the River Mersey at New Ferry, Cheshire.[51]

19 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Commodore  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on the Horse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. Her captain was rescued by a fishing smack, the rest of the crew reached land in their boat.[52]
Union Star  United States The steamship suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Yangtze with the loss of nineteen lives.[53]
Unnamed  Prussia The brig was towed in to North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom in a capsized condition. Her identity could not be established, but it was thought that she had previously sailed under the British flag as Stockton.[54]

20 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Agnes  United States The 299-ton screw steamer burned in Virginia, Confederate States of America.[55]
Independence  United States The schooner was lost north of Point Judith, Rhode Island.[56]

21 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Cubana  United Kingdom The barque was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean (54°40′N 59°23′E / 54.667°N 59.383°E / 54.667; 59.383). All eighteen people on board reached the Falkland Islands in their boat on 27 June. She was on a voyage from Caldera, Chile to Swansea, Glamorgan.[57][58]

22 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Abeona  United Kingdom The ship was sunk by ice off Belle Isle, Newfoundland, British North America.[59] Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a British port to Indian Tickle, Labrador, British North America.[60]
Ann Davis  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Cripple Cove, Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain to Burin, Newfoundland.[61][62]
Lord Nelson  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides to Dantzic.[63][64]

23 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Eleanor  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Portsall, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to San Sebastián, Spain.[63][65]
Marengo  United States The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Charlotte Helen ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[66]
Memphis  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union Blockade: The steamship ran aground off Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, Confederate States of America. She was on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool, Lancashire to Nassau, Bahamas and Charleston, South Carolina. She was refloated with assistance from the steamships Etiwan and Marlon (both  Confederate States of America) and taken in to Charleston.[67]

24 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Araby Maid  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Grenville Ledge, off the coast of Labrador, British North America. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada, British North America to Queenstown, County Cork.[68]
Centurion  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Coal Rock. She was on a voyage form New York, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and towed in to Beaumaris, Anglesey in a severely damaged condition.[65]
Isaac  United Kingdom The ship foundered off "Oxoe", Norway. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Swinemünde, Prussia.[65]
Mary  United Kingdom The sloop foundered off the coast of Norway. She was on a voyage from Gateshead, County Durham to Bergen, Norway. A message in a bottle giving details of the vessel's loss washed up at North Queensferry, Fife on 8 October.[69][70]
New Rambler  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Middelgrund, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Dantzic to an English port.[71]

25 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Duke of Cornwall  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Dublin to London.[72]
Emily  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all  United States Navy), the schooner, carrying a cargo of salt, ran aground on the coast of North Carolina near Fort Caswell while trying to run the Union blockade with a cargo of salt. Her crew abandoned ship, and a United States Navy boat crew boarded her and set her on fire. After the fire went out, her crew reboarded her, but fled to shore when United States Navy boats again approached her. United States Navy vessels then towed her off and burned her to the waterline.[28][73]

26 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Alexander Tchernitzy  Russia The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Prode (Flag unknown). Alexander Tcherntizy was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.[74][30]
Ellen  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamers USS Mount Vernon, USS Mystic, and USS Victoria (all  United States Navy), the schooner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina while trying to run the Union blockade at the and enter port at Wilmington, North Carolina. A boat crew from Mount Vernon then boarded and captured her and Victoria attempted to tow her off, but she sank.[28][73]
CSS General Earl Van Dorn  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The sidewheel ram was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces. She blew up when the flames reached her magazine.[28][75][76]
CSS General Polk  Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The timberclad sidewheel gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[76]
La Plata  United Kingdom The steamship ran aground off Brielle, North Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated the next day.[77][71]
 Confederate States Navy American Civil War: The screw gunboat was burned on the Yazoo River off Liverpool, Mississippi to prevent her capture by Union forces.[76][78]
Monticello Unknown American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran aground on the coast of Alabama, Confederate States of America between 6 and 8 miles (10 and 13 km) east of Fort Morgan. Her crew burned her.[79]

27 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Hecta  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and was beached in Tremone Bay, County Donegal, where she was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Iceland.[77]
Jessie  United Kingdom The lighter ran aground, capsized and sank in the River Clyde. Her crew were rescued.[71]
Modern Greece  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the gunboat USS Cambridge, the blockade runner, a steamship carrying a cargo of rifled cannon, other weapons, and gunpowder, ran aground at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Confederate States of America. All 31 people on board abandoned ship. USS Cambridge then destroyed her. Modern Greece was on a voyage from Port Nelson, Bahamas to Wilmington, North Carolina.[28][80][81][82]
St. Lawrence  United Kingdom The smack sprang a leak and foundered in the Firth of Clyde between Pladda and Ailsa Craig. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Belfast, County Antrim.[83]
Thomas  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore in the "Takee River", China.[84]
Wave  Confederate States of America American Civil War, Union blockade: During a voyage from Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi City, Mississippi, with a cargo of flour, the sloop was captured and burned by the brig USS Bohio ( United States Navy) in the Gulf of Mexico along the coast of Alabama.[85]

28 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Argo  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Middelgrund, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[54]
Capitol  Confederate States of America American Civil War: The sidewheel paddle steamer burned on the Yazoo River at Liverpool, Mississippi.[86]
Chesapeake  United Kingdom The schooner was run down and sunk in the Bristol Channel 8 nautical miles (15 km) south west of Lundy Island, Devon by the full-rigged ship Screamer ( United States) with the loss of her captain and a crew member reported missing. Chesapeake was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Cowes, Isle of Wight.[71]
USS Island Belle  United States Navy American Civil War: The armed tug ran aground on Gilliam’s Bar in the Appomattox River near City Point, Virginia, and was burned to prevent her capture by Confederate forces.[87]

29 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Ann  United Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of gunpowder and musket caps, the steamer ran aground on the coast of Alabama, Confederate States of America at the mouth of Mobile Bay. After Confederate forces salvaged some of her cargo, she drifted free of the shore on 30 June and was captured by Union forces.[88]
White Swan United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The screw steamer, carrying 65 passengers including many parliamentary leaders including Premier William Fox, left Napier for Wellington on 28 June. On 29 June, the ship hit a reef near Uruti Point on the Wairarapa coast, holing a forward compartment. The ship was run ashore to prevent loss of life, but many irreplaceable government papers were lost.[89][90][91]

30 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1862
Ship Country Description
Falcon  United Kingdom The schooner ran ashore near "Voel Nant" and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Ballina, County Mayo to Liverpool, Lancashire.[92][36]
Flash  United Kingdom The ship ran ashore in the Sound of Mull. She was on a voyage from Dublin to the River Wear. She was refloated on 3 July and resumed her voyage.[30]
Reine Marie  France The ship foundered noth of Lisbon, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Villareal, Spain to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.[54]
Thomas Snook  United Kingdom The brig collided with the barque City of Carlisle ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off Hastings, Sussex, with the loss of her captain and two members of her crew. Survivors were rescued by City of Carlisle/[93][94]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1862
Ship Country Description
Achilles  Bremen The brig ran aground on the Mochos Reef before 7 June and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Matanzas, Cuba. She was refloated and taken in to Nassau, Bahamas.[71]
Arab  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached near Ponta Verde, Brazil between 16 and 30 June.[95]
Blue Jacket  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Madras, India.[27]
Bravo  United States The ship was abandoned. She was on a voyage from New York to Dunkerque, Nord, France.[72]
Carricade  Portugal The ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Rio Grande. She was on a voyage from Lisbon to the Rio Grande.[51]
Foster  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Saint Helena.[33]
Garibaldi  United Kingdom The barque was abandoned off Peniche, Portugal. Her crew were rescued.[66]
Hooite  Netherlands The ship was wrecked near Algiers, Algeria. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Naples, Italy.[96]
Impetus  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on a reef off Barbadoes.[33]
Jordan  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Black Sea. She was on a voyage from Malta to Kertch, Russia. She was refloated and taken in to Kertch in a severely damaged condition.[33]
Joseph Howe  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) off Cape Clear Island, County Cork.[12]
Lady Mona  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked before 19 June. She was on a voyage from a port in Uruguay to Liverpool.[51]
Ligiero II  Portugal The brig was wrecked on the Ine Joaosinho Shoals, off Cape Gunhihi, Brazil before 20 June. Her crew survived.[97]
Louis Napoleon  France The ship was driven ashore at "Uocoa Point".[33]
Mary Ann  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America.[98]
 Royal Navy The Greyhound-class sloop was driven ashore at Manzanillo, Mexico. She was later refloated.[99]
Phoenix United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The steamship was wrecked at Auckland.[100]
Reve Maria  Spain The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Lisbon, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Huelva to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.[36]
Sarah & Dorothy  United Kingdom The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from a British port to Archangelsk, Russia. Her crew were rescued.[9]
Spray  United Kingdom The schooner was driven ashore at Courtown, County Wexford.[22]
Zone  United States The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Portland, Maine.[9]

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  19. ^ Gaines, p. 96.
  20. ^ Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: General Sterling Price
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Ship events in 1862
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