List of shipwrecks in August 1862

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

1 August

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|ship=Delfsharen

|flag={{flag|Belgium}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked {{convert|14|nmi|km}} off Booby Island, Queensland. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle, New South Wales to Java, Spanish East Indies.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 October 1862 |issue=11914 |page=7 }}

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|ship=James Yeo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 September 1862 |page=9 |issue=24343 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 September 1862 |issue=11877 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Lizzie

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of arrowroot, caustic acid, blankets, sheet tin, and soda ash, the 41-ton sloop was captured and destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Penobscot|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) off New Inlet, North Carolina, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 122. [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/penobscot-i.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Penobscot I (ScGbt)]

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|ship=Margaret

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near L'Etang-du-Nord, Province of Canada, British North America. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada to Gloucester. She was refloated.

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|ship=Rose

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on Ornsay, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from the Strangford Lough to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage on 5 August.

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2 August

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|ship=America

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. Her crew were rescued by Matilda Atheling and William Chambers (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). America was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=27 September 1862 |page=11 |issue=24362 |column=F }}

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|ship=Commodore Perry

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 193-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Ohio River at the wharves at Louisville, Kentucky, killing three people.Gaines, pp. 134-135.

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|ship=Nimrod

|flag={{flagicon|France}} Saint Lucia

|desc=The sloop was wrecked in a squall. She was on a voyage from Castries to Vieux Fort.

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|ship=Only Son

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Texel, North Holland, Netherlands to Bristol, Gloucestershire. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 August 1862 |issue=11805 |page=7 }}

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3 August

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|ship={{HMS|Adventure|1857|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The storeship was driven ashore on the coast of New Brunswick, British North America. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}

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|ship=Antelope

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in a typhoon at Hong Kong.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 October 1862 |issue=11898 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Bengal

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was severely damaged in a typhoon at Hong Kong.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 September 1862 |page=9 |issue=24364 |column=D }}

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|ship=Bombay Castle

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was scuttled in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

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|ship=Cannata

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

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|ship=Charlotte A. Morrison

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from Akyab, Burma to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 October 1862 |issue=11925 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Chilo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked in a typhoon at Macao, China.

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|ship=Eagle

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the East Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and put out to sea.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 August 1862 |issue=11849 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Iskundershah

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in a typhoon at Hong Kong. She was later refloated.

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|ship=Jacob Bell

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

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|ship=Medicana

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig capsized in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

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|ship=Sycee

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in a typhoon at Hong Kong.

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|ship=Thomas

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Bredegrund. She was refloated the next day but was driven ashore on Saltholm, Denmark. She was refloated.

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|ship=Washington

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in a typhoon at Hong Kong and was severely damaged.

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|ship=Unidentified sloop

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The sloop was burned at Smithfield Creek in Virginia by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Delaware|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).

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4 August

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|ship=Alfred

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship struck the pier at Seaham, County Durham and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Seaham to Colchester, Essex. She consequently put in to Sunderland, County Durham in a leaky condition.

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|ship=Charlemagne

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The lugger was driven ashore at Seaton Carew, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Cornelia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Waterloo, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=Maid of the Yare

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to a French port. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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5 August

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|ship=Annie B. Bourne

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The schooner struck a snag in the Sacramento River at Sutterville, California, and sank.Gaines p. 25.

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|ship={{ship|CSS|Arkansas}}

|flag={{navy|Confederate States of America}}

|desc=File:Essex Arkansas.jpg, 5 September 1862.]]American Civil War, Battle of Baton Rouge: The ironclad warship became disabled and ran aground while maneuvering to engage the ironclad river gunboat {{USS|Essex|1856|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) in the Mississippi River at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned ship, and she slipped off the river bank, drifted downstream, exploded, and sank at {{coord|30|29|14|N|91|12|5|W|name=CSS Arkansas}}.

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|ship=British Queen

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Villaricos, Spain. She was refloated with assistance from Queen and Volunteer, both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}, and taken in to Harwich, Essex.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |authorlink=Hervey Benham |pages=188–89 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}

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|ship=Ceres

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque ran aground at Bideford, Devon. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Bideford.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 August 1862 |issue=11851 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Eliza Rae

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner foundered off the south coast of Spain. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Bella Vicenta ({{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}). Eliza Rae was on a voyage from Casablanca, Morocco to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 August 1862 |issue=11854 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Gallant

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig foundered in the North Sea off Marsden, County Durham. Her eight crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=8 August 1862 |issue=2806 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=8 August 1862 |issue=9789 }}{{Cite news |title=Foundering of a Brig off Shields |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 August 1862 |issue=11853 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Victoria

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The sloop collided with the fishing boat Rose Mary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the North Sea off Sandsend, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Spalding, Lincolnshire.

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6 August

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|ship=Oak

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The sailing barge foundered in the Solent. Her four crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=8 August 1862 |issue=27656 |page=3 }}

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7 August

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|ship=Gerye Dalmeyey

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from an English port to Riga.

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|ship=Moulin

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship collided with the steamship Daphne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the English Channel off Start Point, Devon with the loss of sixteen of her seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Heavy Gale of Thursday |date=9 August 1862 |page=11 |issue=24320 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=9 August 1862 |issue=15351 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 August 1862 |issue=4523 }}

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|ship=Whiteman, or
Lewis Whitman

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=Carrying dead and wounded from the Battle of Baton Rouge – including the body of Brigadier General Thomas Williams – and a cargo of sutler′s stores, the transport steamer sank in the Mississippi River near Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Confederate States of America with the loss of all hands after colliding with the sloop-of-war {{USS|Oneida|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 104.[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/o/oneida-ii.html Naval History and Heritage Command Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Oneida II (Screw Sloop of War)]

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8 August

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|ship=Express

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Oldenburg

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Meyers Ledge. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Bremerhaven. She was refloated with the assistance of the steamship Simson ({{flag|Bremen}}) and towed in to Bremerhaven.

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9 August

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|ship=Antonie

|flag=22px Dantzic

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Dantzic to Hartlepool. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and towed in to Hartlepool.

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|ship=Caringa

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Melbourne, Australia to Calcutta. She was refloated with the assistance of a steamship.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 September 1862 |issue=4554 }}

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|ship=Crystal Palace

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Table Bay.

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|ship=Eaglet

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig struck the Hendon Rock, off the coast of County Durham. She was taken in to Sunderland, County Durham in a sinking condition.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=15 August 1862 |issue=9790 }}

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|ship=Kate

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Table Bay.

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|ship=Marietta

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked in Table Bay.

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11 August

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|ship=Eidsvold

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship heeled over at North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She was later righted.

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|ship={{ship|CSS|Elmea}}

|flag={{Navy|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The armed sloop or schooner ran aground on the coast of Texas in Nueces Bay off Corpus Christi Bay. Confederate forces burned her on 12 August to prevent her capture by the barque {{USS|Arthur|1855|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).[http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1862b.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1862][https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/elma.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Elma]Gaines, p. 168.

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|ship=Pelican

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Cape Horn, Chile. She floated off and foundered. Her fourteen crew survived, but two of them died before they were rescued on 25 August by the barque Schamyl ({{flag|United States|1861}}). Pelican was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Callao, Peru.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West India, Mexican, and Pacific Mails |date=29 November 1862 |page=10 |issue=24416 |column=A-B }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 December 1862 |page=12 |issue=24417 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=2 December 1862 |issue=2905 }}

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|ship=Unidentified sloop

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of salt, the sloop was driven ashore in the Potomac River.Gaines, p. 192.

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12 August

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|ship=Breaker

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the barque {{USS|Arthur|1855|6}} and schooner {{USS|Corypheus|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}), the pilot boat, a schooner, was run ashore and set on fire by her crew in Nueces Bay on the coast of Texas in the vicinity of Pass Cavallo. Union forces salvaged and repaired her and placed her in use as a tender.Gaines, p. 167.[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/breaker.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Breaker]

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|ship=Ganges

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship capsized and sank in the River Thames at Shadwell, Middlesex with the loss of five of her crew. There were about 40 survivors.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Sinking of an Iron Ship |date=13 August 1862 |page=7 |issue=24323 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Accident to the Ganges |date=16 August 1862 |page=12 |issue=24326 |column=B }}

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|ship=Hannah

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Aground off Corpus Christi, Texas, at the entrance to Nueces Bay, the sloop or armed schooner was burned by Confederate forces to prevent her capture by either the barque {{USS|Arthur|1855|6}} or boats from the armed schooner {{USS|Corypheus|1862|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}).

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|ship=Kameo

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America

|desc=The ship ran aground off Entry Island, Nova Scotia. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick.

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|ship=Laurel Hill

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=Drifting down the Mississippi River after slipping her moorings at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate States of America with rigging for the gunboat {{USS|Kineo|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) aboard, the wharf boat sprang leaks and sank.Gaines, p. 68.

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|ship=Mia Maitre

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru. Her crew took to two boats. Five crew in one boat subsequently died before the survivors were rescued by and American whaler. Six crew in the other boat were reported missing.

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13 August

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|ship=Queen of Sheba

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Bucco Reef, off Tobago. She was on a voyage from Scarborough Bay to Little Comland Bay. She was refloated the next day and completed her voyage.

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|ship=West Point

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc= The 409-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of 76 of the 279 people on board after colliding with George Peabody ({{flag|United States|1861}}) on the Potomac River off Ragged Point Beach, Virginia, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 190.{{Cite news |title=Collision Between the Steamers West Point and George Peabody |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 September 1862 |issue=7068 }}

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|ship=William and Jane

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered off Mortehoe, Devon. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Plymouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Bideford |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=20 August 1862 |issue=5026 }}

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14 August

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|ship=Advance

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Homeward Bound ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Advance was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to New York, United States.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 August 1862 |issue=11864 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Sylphiden

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the west coast of Gotland. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was later refloated and towed in to Whitby, Yorkshire in a severely damaged condition.

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15 August

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|ship=Columbus

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Rutnaghorry", India with the loss of more than 100 of the 270 people on board. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Singapore, Straits Settlements.{{Cite news |title=General and Domestic News |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=24 September 1862 |issue=3286 }}

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|ship=Mia Madre

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Pacific Ocean {{convert|1000|nmi|km}} off Callao, Peru. Her crew took to three boats. One boat was reported missing. The second boat capsized with some loss of life; survivors were rescued by the third boat. Five people on board that boat died before the survivors were rescued on 3 September by an American whaler. Mia Madre was on a voyage from Callao to Valencia, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Dreadful Sufferings at Sea |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=31 October 1862 |issue=22876 }}

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|ship={{USS|Sumter|1862|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The steam ram ran aground in the Mississippi River off Bayou Sara in Louisiana. She was stripped by both Confederate and Union forces, then burned by the Confederates.Gaines, p. 74. }}

16 August

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|ship=John and Elizabeth

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Long Beach, New York, United States. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain to New York City, United States.

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|ship=Tropic Bird

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered off the Sand Heads, India with the loss of twelve of her 23 crew. Survivors took to boats; eight of them were rescued by Sirius ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), three were reported missing. Tropic Bird was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Colombo, Ceylon.{{Cite news |title=India |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 October 1862 |issue=5125 }}

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17 August

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|ship=Emily Caroline

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque ran aground on the Loo Bank, off Trinidad. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Trinidad and Pará, Brazil.

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|ship={{SS|Great Eastern||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship struck a rock off Long Island, New York, United States and was holed. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to New York City. She completed her voyage and was placed under repair. Repairs took until January 1863 to complete.

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|ship=Stag

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Whiting Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Brussels, Flanders, Belgium to King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was refloated and taken in to King's Lynn in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 August 1862 |issue=11862 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Thetis

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Exeter, Devon.

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18 August

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|ship=Callie

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 129-ton steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Duck River in Tennessee, Confederate States of America while tied up to the riverbank to exchange cargoes.Gaines, p. 159.

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|ship=Elizabeth and Jane

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|35|51|N|68|09|W}}). Her two surviving crew were rescued by Kelton ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Elizabeth and Jane was on a voyage from Minatitlán, Mexico to New York, United States.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 September 1862 |issue=11885 |page=2 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck and Loss of Life |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=16 September 1862 |issue=1294 }}

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|ship=Mealman

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Owers Sandbank, in the North Sea and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by a smack. She was later refloated and towed in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom by the buoy tender Beacon (22px Trinity House) and a tug.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 August 1862 |issue=11865 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Reporter

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and foundered off Cape Horn, Chile with the loss of 32 of her 36 crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 November 1862 |page=10 |issue=24400 |column=B }}

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|ship=Skylark

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 371-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces on the Duck River in Tennessee while tied up to the riverbank to exchange cargoes.Gaines, p. 162.

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19 August

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|ship={{RMS|Cleopatra|1852|6}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground and was wrecked at the mouth of the Shebar River, Africa with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Bonny, Africa to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West Coast of Africa |date=11 October 1862 |page=8 |issue=24374 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wreck of the Cleopatra. Suspension of the Captain's Certificate |date=27 October 1862 |page=7 |issue=24387 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Domestic |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 October 1862 |issue=4577 }}

}}

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|ship=Donegal

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brigantine ran aground in the English Channel {{convert|4|nmi|km}} east of Weymouth, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Exeter, Devon. She was refloated the next day with assistance from the Coast Guard and towed in to Weymouth in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Maria

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near "Brede", Devon. She was on a voyage from Padstow, Cornwall to Newport, Monmouthshire.

}}

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|ship=Pelican

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Cape Horn, Chile. Her fifteen crew too to a boat. Two of them had died before the survivors were rescued on 18 September. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Callao, Peru.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=29 November 1862 |issue=4619 }}

}}

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|ship=Swallow

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: Ten to 12 days after she ran aground on the Mississippi River at Glover, Mississippi, Confederate States of America, the 190-ton sternwheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate forces.Gaines, p. 103.

}}

20 August

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|ship=Brazilian

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground off Falster, Denmark. She was on a voyage from St. Davids, Pembrokeshire to Riga, Russia. She was refloated and put in to Swinemünde, Prussia in a severely leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Johanna Stolt

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Precursor ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Johanna Stolt was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands to Valparaíso, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1862 |issue=11917 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Kronprindsesse Josephine

|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Owers Sandbank, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Brevig to Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 August 1862 |issue=11868 |page=8 }}

}}

21 August

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|ship=Acacia, or
Acacia Cottage

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc= The 100- or 109-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River about 25 miles (40 km) above Helena, Arkansas, Confederate States of America, with the loss of at least 75, and as many as 140 lives. Survivors were rescued by Conway and W. H. B. (both {{flag|United States|1861}}). Acacia was on a voyage from Memphis, Tennessee to Helena.Gaines, p 91.{{Cite news |title=Terrible Steam-boat Disaster |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=12 September 1862 |issue=4051 }}

}}

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|ship=Ariel

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Cacava Rocks, off Cape Scala, Greece. She was on a voyage from Corfu, United States of the Ionian Islands to Patras, Greece.

}}

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|ship=Susan Jane

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The smack was run down and sunk by the steamship Ibis ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) off St. German's Head, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by Ibis.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 August 1862 |page=12 |issue=24333 |column=D }} Susan Jane was on a voyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to Kilmore Quay, County Wexford.

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22 August

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|ship=Kelloha

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 396-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in Lake Huron.Gaines, p. 56.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Knight Templar

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Pluckington Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Arica, Peru to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 August 1862 |issue=7057 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Titania

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship struck the Momode Rocks. She was on a voyage from London to Mogador, Morocco. She consequently put in to Falmouth, Cornwall in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 August 1862 |issue=11689 |page=7 }}

}}

23 August

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|ship={{USS|Adirondack|1862|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1861}}

|desc=The screw sloop-of-war was wrecked without loss of life on a reef off the northeast point of Man-O-War Cay in the Little Bahamas, about one nautical mile (1.8 km) northeast of Little Bahama Bank. Her crew were rescued. The wreck was burned by Bahamanian wreckers.Gaines, p. 18.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 September 1862 |issue=4557 }}

}}

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|ship=Helen Scott

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Welsh coast with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 October 1862 |page=9 |issue=24385 |column=D }}

}}

24 August

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|ship={{USS|Henry Andrew|1847|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1861}}

|desc= During a storm in the North Atlantic Ocean, the armed screw steamer was driven ashore 15 miles (24 km) south of Cape Henry, Virginia, Confederate States of America and was wrecked without loss of life. She was not salvaged.Gaines, p. 182.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship= {{USS|Isaac N. Seymour||6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The paddle steamer ran aground and sank in the Neuse River in North Carolina, Confederate States of America. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.[http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1862a.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1862]

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tubal Cain

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship collided with Constance ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the Pacific Ocean {{convert|200|nmi|km}} off Cape Otway, Victoria with the loss of fourteen of her fifteen crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=25 November 1862 |issue=5994 }}

}}

25 August

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|ship=Britannia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig foundered east of the Saltee Islands, County Wexford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to New Ross, County Wexford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualty |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=26 August 1862 |issue=15365 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig sprang a leak and was beached at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sia en Elizabeth

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Tarf Tail, off Swona, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Larne, County Antrim, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Wreck of a Dutch Schooner in the Pentland Firth |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=5 September 1862 |issue=2830 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vittoria

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The barque-rigged steamship was wrecked at Akyab, Burma. She was on a voyage from Akyab to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=16 October 1862 |issue=11913 |page=7 }}

}}

26 August

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|ship=Elizabeth

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was refloated. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Euphemia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Bay of Luce. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a tug.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 September 1862 |issue=11874 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Flying Mist

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship arrived in Bluff, New Zealand from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom carrying twenty passengers and several hundred sheep on 25 August. She was poorly anchored, and during the night after her arrival she struck a rock and was holed. The crew of the steamship Aldinga ({{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand) helped rescue passengers, crew, and luggage, along with much of the livestock, but over 100 sheep drowned as the ship sank.Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 78–79.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Yorktown

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The steamer sprang a leak and foundered in the Gulf of Mexico off Ship Island, Mississippi, after leaving Mobile, Alabama, in an attempt to run the Union blockade and carry a cargo of cotton to Havana, Cuba. Her 26 survivors in two lifeboats were rescued 72 nautical miles (133 km) southeast of Ship Island by the schooner Annie Clapp (flag unknown).Gaines, p. 53.

}}

27 August

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|ship=Emily

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship collided with another vessel and sank south of Őland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Riga, Russia.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 August 1862 |page=12 |issue=24339 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathilde

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The brig ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom to Sunderland. She was refloated and taken in to Sunderland for repairs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Osprey

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Droogden, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Stettin to West Hartlepool County Durham. She was refloated with the assistance of a Royal Danish Navy warship and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Patriot

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner – holed, stripped, her masts cut down, and her cargo missing – was found aground near Mosquito Inlet, Florida, Confederate States of America, by the screw steamer {{USS|South Carolina|1860|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}). South Carolina destroyed her.Gaines, p. 43.

}}

28 August

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|ship=Cecelia

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ketch was wrecked on the Kentish Knock. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 August 1862 |issue=11872 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jeanne D{{'}}Acre

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner sank at the mouth of the Risle. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Pont-Audemer, Eure. She was refloated on 9 September but sank again. She had been refloated by 21 October and taken in to Honfleur, Manche.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=23 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24384 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=19 September 1862 |issue=9795 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=La France

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked off Gopalpur, India.{{Cite news |title=India |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=18 October 1862 |issue=2676 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah Dwyer

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground at the mouth of the São Francisco River.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 September 1862 |issue=4560 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Senator

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The passenger ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued by Neptune (Flag unknown). Senator was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Loss of Two New York Passenger Ship |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 September 1862 |issue=11885 |page=2 }}

}}

29 August

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|ship=C. H. Southard

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground near Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to North Shields, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane Miller

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Kratzsand. She was on a voyage from Banff, Aberdeenshire to Hamburg. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Cuxhaven.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=5 September 1862 |issue=2830 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=W. S. Schmidt

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to New York. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

30 August

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|ship=Christina

|flag={{flag|Sweden|1844}}

|desc=The ship ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Piteå to Sunderland. She was refloated and taken in to Sunderland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Emma||2}}

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 460-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by her crew after running aground on the southeast side of Jones Island, Georgia on the 20th.Gaines, p. 47.{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?220811 |title=Emma (+1962) |publisher=Wrecksite |accessdate=26 May 2020}}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mimmie Dike

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Tasmania

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in the Duck River.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 November 1862 |issue=11944 |page=7 }} She was subsequently sold, and had been refloated by 21 October.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=2 January 1863 |issue=2932 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mississippi|Harrison, Loring & Co., 1862|2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The steamship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All 58 people on board were rescued, 51 by Prins Oscar ({{flag|Netherlands}}) and seven by Minstrel ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mississippi was on a voyage from Montevideo, Uruguay to Hong Kong.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=18 October 1862 |page=11 |issue=24380 |column=F }}

}}

31 August

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|ship=Safeguard

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was run into by {{HMS|Psyche|1862|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) in the River Thames and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Dantzic to London.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=5 September 1862 |issue=9793 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Venango

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 120-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank at the Scuffletown Bar in Louisiana, Confederate States of America. She later was refloated.Gaines, p. 75.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=W. B. Terry

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: Captured by Confederate States Army troops, the 175-ton sternwheel paddle steamer, carrying a cargo of coal, ran aground at Duck River Shoals on the Tennessee River in Tennessee. Confederate States of America. The Confederates stripped and burned her.Gaines, p. 164.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified sloop

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War: The sloop was burned on the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia, Confederate States of America, by the armed tug {{USS|Anacostia|1856|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 193.

}}

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|ship=A. B.,or
A Bee

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1861}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Aground at the entrance to the Nueces River in Corpus Christi Bay at Corpus Christi, Texas, the steamer was burned to the waterline by Confederate forces on either 15 or 17 August to prevent her capture by the bark {{USS|Arthur|1855|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}).Gaines, p. 165.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Acacia

|flag={{flag|United States|1861|name=United States Army}}

|desc=American Civil War: The troop transport was sunk.[https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/confederate_ships/acacia-transport.html Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Acacia]

}}

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|ship=Arabella

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipping Intelligence |date=15 September 1862 |page=9 |issue=24351 |column=E }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=B. F. Bruce

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 168-ton screw steamer burned at Port Stanley, Province of Canada, British North America.Gaines, p. 55.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=C. A. Morrison

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in Algoa Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 September 1862 |issue=4566 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Champion

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked in Goa Bay. She was on a voyage from Bombay to Kurrachee, India.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=India |date=21 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24382 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Colooney

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 30 August. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Sligo.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=11 September 1862 |issue=4551 }}

}}

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|ship=Dalmatian

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Smyrna.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 August 1862 |issue=4530 }} She was on a voyage from Constantinople, Ottoman Empire to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated with the assistance of {{HMS|Medina|1840|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=1 September 1862 |issue=4542 }}

}}

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|ship=Dunnotar Castle

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was run down and sunk by Hugh ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=29 August 1862 |issue=9792 }}

}}

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|ship=George

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Riga, Russia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Georgiana

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Proving of Canada to Cork. She was discovered on 18 August by Liberty ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) which put a crew member on board. Royal Family and Young Nova Scotian (both {{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America) also put crew on board and she was taken in to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Golden Eagle

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from New York to Panama City, Granadine Confederation.

}}

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|ship=Gorilla

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the White Sea off "Cape Orieffka", Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=20 August 1862 |issue=5980 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Henry Moore

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship struck a sunken rock off Point Romania, Straits Settlements and was beached at the Red Cliff. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Hong Kong. She was refloated on 18 August with assistance from {{HMS|Scout|1856|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) and towed in to Singapore.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=James Zeo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was lost off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to Quebec City, Province of Canada.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Japan

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Kingport Reef. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom to Batavia Netherlands East Indies. She was refloated and put in to Batavia in a leaky condition. She foundered whilst being taken in to "Onrust", Netherlands East Indies to be examined.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 October 1862 |page=10 |issue=24366 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 October 1862 |issue=11900 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mexican Eagle

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was damaged by ice in Arksuth Fjord, Greenland. She was consequently condemned.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 October 1862 |page=12 |issue=24377 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=New Ulm Belle

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The 50-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Minnesota River in Minnesota.Gaines, p. 81.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Uncle Toby

|flag={{flag|United States|1861}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the English Bank, in the River Plate. She was on a voyage from Portland, Maine to the River Plate.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=20 September 1862 |issue=4559 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 September 1862 |issue=11890 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ville de Dieppe

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at the Sand Heads, India. She was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to Belle Île, Morbihan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 August 1862 |issue=4531 }}

}}

References

=Notes=

=Bibliography=

[http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf Gaines, W. Craig, Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks, Louisiana State University Press, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129144606/http://scubagonewild.com/documents/Encyclopedia%20of%20Civil%20War%20Shipwrecks%20-%20(Malestrom).pdf |date=29 November 2010 }}, {{ISBN|978-0-8071-3274-6}}.
Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association.

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