List of shipwrecks in January 1862

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

1 January

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|ship= Advocate

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The fishing schooner was scuttled as a blockship by Union forces in the Petit Bois Channel on the coast of Mississippi. She had been captured by the screw steamer {{USS|New London|1859|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) on 1 December 1861.Gaines, p. 82.

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|ship=Alice Jane

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Whitton Sand, in the Humber with the loss of all five people on board. She was on a voyage from Great Grimsby to Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 January 1862 |issue=4337 }}{{Cite news |title=Loss of a Vessel and Five Lives |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=4 January 1862 |issue=27472 |page=6 }}

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|ship=Granite State

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Hunter

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned off Saint John's, Newfoundland, British North America.

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|ship={{SV|Ocean Traveller|| 2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1859}}

|desc= The fishing schooner sank in a gale on a trip from Gloucester, Massachusetts to Newfoundland. Lost with all 10 crew.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?214740 |title=Ocean Traveller (+1862) |publisher=Wrecksite |access-date=17 May 2021}}

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|ship=Prinz Regent

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

|desc=The schooner was damaged by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 January 1862 |issue=4335 }}

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|ship=Thomas Ann Cole

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Cyguena ({{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}). Thomas Ann Cole was on a voyage from New York, United States to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=3 February 1862 |issue=4909 }}

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2 January

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|ship=Belle Creole

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Newport, Rhode Island. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to New York{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=17 January 1862 |issue=27482 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Courier

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore near Odesa.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 January 1862 |issue=11670 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Glentanner

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship struck the Rocas reef off the north-eastern Brazilian coast and foundered. The crew took to the boats. One group of nine crew reached Pernambuco; the captain and eight others were rescued on 5 January by the ship Arey ({{flag|United States|1861}}) and brought to Berehaven, County Cork. Glentanner was on a voyage from Callao, Peru to Queenstown, County Cork, for orders, with guano.{{cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18620131/003/0002 |access-date=12 October 2022 |work=The Freeman's Journal |volume=XCV |date=31 January 1862 |location=Dublin |page=2 |via=British Newspaper Archive }}{{Cite news|title=Shipping Intelligence|newspaper=Liverpool Mercury|location=Liverpool|date=2 February 1862|page=3|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000081/18620226/009/0003|access-date=12 October 2022|issue=4382|via=British Newspaper Archive}}{{cite news |title=Castletown, Ireland |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000861/18620226/020/0003 |access-date=12 October 2022 |work=Lloyd's List |issue=14,943 |date=26 February 1862 |location=London |page=3 |via=British Newspaper Archive }}{{cite book |title=Register of American and Foreign Shipping |date=1862 |publisher=American Lloyd's |location=New York |page=40 |url=https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0237571862/#40 |access-date=13 October 2022 |via=Mystic Seaport Museum |archive-date=13 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013002344/https://research.mysticseaport.org/item/l0237571862/#40 |url-status=live }}

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|ship=Lady Flora Hastings

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Indian Ocean. She was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to a British port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 April 1862 |issue=4416 }}

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|ship= {{ship||Northern Light|clipper|2}}

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

|desc=The clipper collided with the brig Nouveau St. Jacques ({{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}) and was consequently abandoned at sea. All on board were rescued by Bremenhaven ({{flag|Bremen}}) and Norma ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to New York.{{Cite news |title=Falmouth Express |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=10 January 1862 |issue=3055 |page=5 }}

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|ship= Nouveau St. Jacques

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The brig sank after colliding with the clipper {{ship||Northern Light|clipper|2}} ({{flag|United States|1861}}). Her crew were rescued by Northern Light.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 January 1862 |issue=4339 }}

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|ship=Orient

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Adelaide, South Australia to London. Female passengers were taken off the next day by the barque Commissaris der Konings ({{flag|Netherlands}}). Orient put in to Ascension Island on 5 January in a severely damaged condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=11 February 1862 |issue=4916 }}{{Cite news |title=Maritime Extracts |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=15 February 1862 |issue=2657 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 February 1862 |issue=11708 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Uranus

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom for Galați, Ottoman Empire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=26 September 1862 |issue=9796 }}

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3 January

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|ship=Anna and Olga

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bolderāja. She was on a voyage from Riga to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 January 1862 |issue=4337 }}

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was refloated with the assistance of a Broadstairs lugger.

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|ship=Diligence

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was refloated the next day and taken in to port.

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|ship=Elvina

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Alicante, Spain. She was refloated with assistance from a Broadstairs lugger.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 January 1862 |issue=11671 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Euphrosyne

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

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|40|nmi|km}} west of Porto Santo Island. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea.{{Cite news |title=The Calcutta and China Mails |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 February 1862 |issue=4908 }}

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|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Macao, China.

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|ship=Middlesex

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

|desc=The ship departed from Cardiff, Glamorgan for Jamaica. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 July 1862 |issue=4500 }}

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|ship=Zephias

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Confederate States of America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardenas, Cuba to New York, United States.

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4 January

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|ship={{SS|Adonis|1847|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Mugglin Rocks off the coast of County Dublin and consequently sank {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Bray Head, County Wicklow. Her six passengers and twenty crew reached land in the ship's boats. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Waterford, Plymouth, Devon and London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 January 1862 |issue=4885 }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck on the Steamship Adonis |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=6 January 1862 }}{{Cite news |title=The Loss of the Adonis - Boards of Trade Inquiry |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=16 January 1862 }}

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|ship=Ann Percival

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the steamship Seine ({{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}). Ann Percival was on a voyage from Demerara to Pembroke.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=15 January 1862 |issue=4893 }}

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|ship=Belisario

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Gibraltar

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Conil de la Frontera, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Italy to Cádiz, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The East India, China, And Australian Mails |date=22 January 1862 |page=10 |issue=24149 |column=E }}

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|ship= Santi-Pietri

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=File:L'Illustration 1862 gravure Incendie du Santi-Petri, Bagne maritime de Toulon.jpg The prison hulk, a former ship-of-the-line, was destroyed by fire at Toulon, Var.

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|ship=Edward Everett

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on the Belgian-French border. Some of her crew were rescued by a tug, the rest too to a boat; they were reported missing. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands to Baltimore, Maryland. She was refloated on 18 February.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 February 1862 |issue=11709 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Gloria

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Liepāja to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingør in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=10 January 1862 |issue=4017 }}

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|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Cádiz, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Palermo, Sicily, Italy.

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|ship=Record

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at St. George's, Bermuda. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of tugs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 February 1862 |issue=4363 }}

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|ship=Salacca

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

|desc=The schooner collided with a brigantine and foundered off the Runnel Stone. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Llanelly, Glamorgan.

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|ship=Samuel Killam

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by W. Padmore ({{flag|United States|1861}}). Samuel Killam was on a voyage from New York to Queenstown, County Cork, United Kingdom.

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|ship=No. 25

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

|desc=The pilot boat was abandoned in the Bristol Channel. Her crew survived. She subsequently came ashore at Combe Martin, Devon.

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5 January

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|ship=Benlomond

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Canadian coast.

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|ship=Bouchma

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck on the Kosbergrund and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom. She put in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 January 1862 |issue=11674 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Content

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Cockle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Dr. Bunting

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Canadian coast. Her crew survived.

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|ship=Evergreen

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Canadian coast. Her crew survived.

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|ship=John and Elizabeth

|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 Methil, Fife to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Harwich, Essex in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=7 January 1862 |issue=11672 |page=7 }}

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|ship=John Pink

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Canadian coast.

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|ship=La Canadienne

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

|desc=The survey ship was wrecked on the Canadian coast.

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|ship=Rebecca Jane

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated and towed in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a severely leaky condition.

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|ship=Scotia

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.

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|ship=Signet

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Canadian coast.

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|ship=Sutlej

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Canadian coast. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=9 January 1862 |issue=2625 }}

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|ship=W. Padmore

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued by the steamship Merlin ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). W. Padmore was on a voyage from New York to Livorno, Italy.

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6 January

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|ship=Eliza Laing

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Colin Campbell ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Eliza Laing was on a voyage from New York to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=7 March 1862 |issue=9767 }}

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7 January

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|ship=Albion

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed by fire at Scarborough, Yorkshire. The one person on board was rescued.{{Cite news |title=Ship on Fire in Scarborough Harbour |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=9 January 1862 |issue=4888 }}

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|ship=Isabel

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

|desc=The ship departed from New York, United States for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=20 May 1862 |issue=5000 }}

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|ship=Julie and August

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Osterlief, in the Baltic Sea. She had been refloated by 13 January.

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|ship=Marcia

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Intended for scuttling as a blockship in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the "Stone Fleet," the 343-ton bark, a former merchant ship, struck bottom and sank while crossing Port Royal Bar near Port Royal, South Carolina.Gaines, p. 151.

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|ship=True Briton

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

|desc=The tug caught fire in the River Thames at Rotherhithe, Surrey and was scuttled.{{Cite news |title=Fire on Board a Steam Vessel in the Thames |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 January 1862 |issue=11673 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Unidentified vessels

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

|desc=American Civil War: The vessels, at least some of them barges, were burned in the Pamunkey River in Virginia near West Point and White House.Gaines, p. 194.

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8 January

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|ship={{SS|John Fenwick|1861|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Blakeney, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to London. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=17 January 1862 |issue=9760 }}

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|ship=Snake

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

|desc=The smack foundered off Ballywalter, County Down. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dartmouth, Devon to Crinan, Argyllshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=9 January 1862 |issue=2625 }}

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9 January

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|ship=Appleton

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship foundered off Mauritius. Her crew were rescued by Tivoli ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Appleton was on a voyage from London to Colombo, Ceylon.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 March 1862 |page=11 |issue=24202 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 February 1862 |issue=4383 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 March 1862 |issue=11736 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Australia

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Akyab, Burma. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 February 1862 |issue=4374 }}

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|ship=Eleanore

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

|desc=The brig ran aground near "Marsland". She was refloated on 11 January and found to be leaky.

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|ship=Harriet Cann

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Skerweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel off the coast of Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Gloucester.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 January 1862 |issue=4344 }}{{Cite news |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=York Herald |location=York |date=18 January 1862 |issue=4655 |page=3 }} She floated off and came ashore at Southerndown, Glamorgan on fire.

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|ship={{USS|Meteor|1819|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The full-rigged ship, a former whaler, was scuttled in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America, as part of the "Stone Fleet."

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|ship=Petit Pierre

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The fishing smack was run into by an Austrian barque and sank in the English Channel off Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship={{USS|Potomac|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War: Union blockade: The former whaler was scuttled in Charleston Harbor, as part of the "Stone Fleet."

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|ship=Waverley

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Indian Ocean ({{coord|19|31|S|78|10|E}}). Her thirteen crew were rescued by Minniehaha ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Waverley was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to Cork or Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Zar David

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Yevpatoria with the loss of four of her crew.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=31 January 1862 |issue=4020 }}

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|ship=Zobia

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to South Shields, County Durham. She was refloated.

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10 January

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|ship=China

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near the entrance to Dardanelles. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Enos, Ottoman Empire.

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|ship=Cresswell Packet

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Gaa Sands, in the North Sea off the mouth of the River Tay. Her three crew were rescued the next day by the fishing boat Jane ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Broughty Ferry Fishermen |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=24 January 1862 |issue=2636 }}

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|ship=Earl of Hardwicke

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Pocklington Reef. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hong Kong.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 February 1863 |issue=12015 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Experiment

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Low Hauxley, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.

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11 January

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|ship=Dollard

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Riel Rocks, on the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom with the loss of thirteen of the seventeen people on board. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Distressing & Fatal Shipwreck |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=24 January 1862 |issue=3057 |page=5 }}{{Cite news |title=The Late Public Meeting at Mullion |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=24 January 1867 |issue=3315 }}

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|ship=Druid

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Eastbourne, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Naples, Italy. Her nine crew were rescued the next day by the Eastbourne Lifeboat. She was refloated on 14 January with assistance from the tug Victoria ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed in to Newhaven, Sussex.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |page=210 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 January 1862 |issue=11679 |page=7 }}{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=9 February 1862 |issue=1107 }}

}}

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|ship=Janet Kidston

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Batten Bay. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mathews and Ann

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Cutler Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to London. She was refloated and assisted in to Harwich, Essex in a severely leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mooltan|1860|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and taken in to Southampton.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ranger

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

|desc=American Civil War: The ship was captured and destroyed by {{USS|Minnesota|1855|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}.Silverstone, p.28

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|St Vincent|1815|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Nelson|ship of the line}} was driven ashore at Portsmouth, Hampshire. She was refloated.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval Intelligence |date=13 January 1862 |page=12 |issue=24141 |column=B-C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vesta

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

|desc=American Civil War: The ship was captured and destroyed by {{USS|Minnesota|1855|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}.

}}

12 January

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|ship=Cromwell

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank in the River Mersey at Liverpool, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 January 1862 |issue=4345 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George C. Ross

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

|desc= During a voyage from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to New York with a cargo of coffee, honey, and logwood, the brig was wrecked on Long Cay in the Bahamas. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 February 1862 |issue=4379 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Giaour

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and damaged in the Dardanelles. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was later refloated and resumed her voyage, arriving at Constantinople on 18 January.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 February 1862 |issue=11702 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ina

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Real de las Catalanca Reef. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Nuevitas, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 February 1862 |issue=11706 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank in the River Mersey at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lauriston

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

|desc=The ship collided with Premier ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Premier. Lauriston was on a voyage from New York, United States to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=28 January 1862 |issue=4357 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Ben

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pelikaan

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued by Eliza Jane ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Salem

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the English Channel off the coast of Devon with the loss of six of her 27 crew. Survivors were rescued hy Catharina ({{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}). Salem was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to Falmouth, Cornwall.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sir J. Campbell

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Silver Key. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland, British North America to Havana, Cuba.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Star

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Puntales, Spain. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Seville, Spain. She was refloated and taken in to Cádiz in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 January 1862 |issue=6874 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas Fielden

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Owers Sandbank, in the English Channel off the coast of Sussex. Refloated in a sinking condition, she was towed in to Portsmouth, Hampshire by {{ship|HMRC|Argus|1851|6}} (22px Board of Customs)) and beached there. Thomas Fielden was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The Mersey Flat sank in the River Mersey at Liverpool. Her crew were rescued.

}}

13 January

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|ship=City of New York

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

|desc=American Civil War: Carrying a cargo of tents and ordnance, including gunpowder, rifle muskets, artillery shells, and hand grenades, the 574-ton screw steamer was wrecked on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America at Hatteras Inlet. Her entire crew was saved after hanging onto her rigging for 42 hours.Gaines, p. 116

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Trebiskin

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Breaksea Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Padstow, Cornwall to Cardiff, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Trois Frères

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Guernsey, Channel Islands.

}}

14 January

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|ship=Edwin

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

|desc=American Civil War: The Confederate-owned schooner was run ashore in Chesapeake Bay. Her cargo was landed and she was set afire. She was supposedly on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland, United States to Barbados.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Louisiana

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

|desc=American Civil War: The steamer ran aground on the Hatteras Inlet Bar, off the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America. She was refloated.Gaines, p. 122.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Skandinavian

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|50|nmi|km}} west of Gibraltar. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

}}

15 January

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|ship=Beaver

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Galway. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 January 1862 |issue=11682 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George Marshall

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

|desc=The ship struck the Beagle Reef, in the Bass Strait and was consequently beached on Flinders Island, Tasmania. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Sydney, New South Wales.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=8 March 1862 |issue=6913 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Nugget

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

|desc=The ship departed from Calcutta, India for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Monetary and Mercantile Affairs |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 July 1862 |issue=11822 |page=5 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Standard

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Belfast Lough.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=16 January 1862 |issue=6869 }} She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. She was refloated and taken under tow for Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

16 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ancilla

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 81-ton schooner was destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida.Gaines, p. 38.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anna

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Cockburn Reef. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to the Bank's River, Brazil.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chance

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Horse Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated with assistance from the Lytham Lifeboat.{{Cite news |title=Wreck off Lytham |newspaper=Preston Chronicle |location=Preston |date=18 January 1862 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dromo

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Bliss Island", Maine, United States. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to the Bristol Channel.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Little Jenny

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

|desc=The ship departed from São Miguel Island, Azores for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 March 1862 |issue=11735 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Matanzas

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Laguna de los Padres, Argentina. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to an English port.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Exchequer Chamber, Feb. 1 |date=2 February 1870 |page=11 |issue=26663 |column=B }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rattler

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 66-ton sloop was destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida.Gaines, p. 44.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rook

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground at Dundalk, County Louth. She was refloated with assistance from the Dundalk Lifeboat and taken in to that port.{{Cite news |title=Important Lifeboat Services |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=22 January 1862 |issue=6874 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Shamrock

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Belfast Lough.{{Cite news |title=Pier Head, Dublin |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=16 January 1862 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stag

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 200-ton schooner was destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida.Gaines, p. 45.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground and was damaged at Ilfracombe, Devon. She was on a voyage form Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hayle, Cornwall. She was refloated and taken in to Ilfracombe in a sinking condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William H. Middleton

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 69-ton sloop was destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wyfe

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=York

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer {{USS|Albatross|1858|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}), the blockade runner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America east of Bogue Inlet. While Albatross and the barque {{USS|Gemsbok|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) provided covering fire, boat crews from Albatross set her on fire.{{cite web|url=http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1862a.html|website=usnlp.org|title=Navy Chronology of the Civil War, January-June 1862|access-date=2 August 2018|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925013212/http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1862a.html|url-status=live}}Gaines, p. 131.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified vessels

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: A sailboat, a launch, and a ferry scow were destroyed by the gunboat {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1861}}) at Cedar Key, Florida. Three schooners carrying lumber and turpentine and five fishing smacks partially laden with goods were destroyed at Sea Horse Key and Cedar Key, either destroyed by USS Hatteras or burned by the Confederates to prevent their capture by USS Hatteras.

}}

17 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bellona

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Dundrum, County Down with the loss of three of her four crew. Her captain was rescued by the Tyrella Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dundrum.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=20 January 1862 |page=6 |issue=24147 |column=D-E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Crisis

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow. Eleven of her nineteen crew were reported missing. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Singapore, Straits Settlements.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=21 January 1862 |issue=2635 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Genevieve

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} British Mauritius

|desc=The barque went ashore close to the Otago Heads at the entrance to Otago Harbour, New Zealand. She was carrying a cargo of sugar and coffee from Mauritius. The crew were saved, but most of the cargo was lost.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 75.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Malayer

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Dartmouth, Devon and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.

}}

18 January

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|ship=Boadicea

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

|desc=The barque was destroyed by fire at Demerara, British Guiana with the loss of a crew member. Two others were severely injured.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West India and Pacific Mails |date=15 February 1862 |page=10 |issue=24170 |column=C-D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cadiz,
Jason, and
Rover

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
{{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}
{{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}})

|desc=The brigs Cadiz and Jason and the schooner Rover all collided at Swansea, Glamorgan and were all driven ashore and damaged. Cadiz was on a voyage from the Charente to Swansea. Jason was on a voyage from Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure to Swansea. Rover was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Swansea. They were all condemned.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jeresina Delia

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

|desc=The ship departed from Cardiff, Glamorgan for Malta. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 May 1862 |page=9 |issue=24252 |column=A }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Matilda

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Guadeloupe. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neapolitan

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

|desc=American Civil War: During a voyage from Messina, Italy, to Boston, Massachusetts, with a cargo of dried and fresh fruit and sulphur, the 322-ton barque was captured and burned in the Strait of Gibraltar within 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) of Ceuta by the merchant raider CSS Sumter ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}).{{cite web|url=http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MaraudersCivilWar/CSSSumter.html|title=Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - CSS Sumter|website=ahoy.tk-jk.net|access-date=2 August 2018|archive-date=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911131434/http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/MaraudersCivilWar/CSSSumter.html|url-status=live}}Gaines, p. 37. Her twelve crew were rescued by the barque Investigator ({{flag|United States|1861}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The East India and China Mails |date=1 February 1862 |page=9 |issue=24158 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orleans

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked at Youghal, County Cork with the loss of three of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by the Coastguard using rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from "Sidney" to Cork.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=22 January 1862 |page=9 |issue=24149 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=The Storm |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 January 1862 |issue=4352 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pocahontas

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

|desc=American Civil War: Bound for Roanoke Island, North Carolina, carrying 80 crewman and Union Army soldiers and a cargo of 113 horses, the 428-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was driven ashore by a storm on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America 20 miles (32 km) north of Cape Hatteras and broke into three pieces with the loss of 90 horses.Gaines, p. 127.

}}

19 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=A. C. Williams

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooner as a blockship below Weir's Point off Roanoke Island, North Carolina.Gaines, p. 112.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bonita

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in Dursey Sound. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Queenstown, County Cork and Limerick, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=27 January 1862 |issue=4903 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gnat

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and sank at Campbeltown, Argyllshire. She was on a voyage form Belfast, County Antrim to Ayr.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Heroine

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Stoney Binks, in the North Sea off the mouth of the Humber. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 January 1862 |issue=11686 |page=8 }} She was refloated on 29 January and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Swift

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Sheringham Shoal, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Tenerife, Canary Islands. She was later refloated and put in to Ramsgate, Kent in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=7 February 1862 |issue=4021 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in Dursey Sound, County Cork. Her crew were rescued.

}}

20 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Augusta

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The yacht ran aground on the Swinebottoms, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from an English port to Rønne.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elba

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Livorno, Italy.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=J. W. Wilder

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner, ran aground on the coast of Alabama about 15 miles east of Mobile and was captured by a boarding party from the screw steamer {{USS|R. R. Cuyler|1860|6}}, assisted by the screw steamer {{USS|Huntsville|1857|6}} and two cutters from the frigate {{USS|Potomac|1822|6}} (all {{navy|United States|1861}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Margaret Scott|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The barque was scuttled as a blockship in Maffit's Channel in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America, as part of the "Stone Fleet."

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Oregon||2}}

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

|desc=The schooner was lost on Quaddy Head. Lost with all 8 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1862.htm |title=1862 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=8 July 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019115335/https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1862.htm |url-status=live }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Prince Alfred

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

|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 January 1862 |issue=11685 |page=8 }}

}}

21 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Carter

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

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was scuttled as a blockship by the gunboat CSS Ellis ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}) in Croatan Sound off Roanoke Island, North Carolina, below Weir's Point.Gaines, p. 115.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Imogen

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

|desc=The brig was attacked by three pirate boats {{convert|7|nmi|km}} north east of the Ninepin Islands, China. Her crew were taken prisoner and she was set afire and destroyed. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong] to Shanghai, China.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 March 1862 |issue=11731 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Isabella

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and sank at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Josephine

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

|desc=American Civil War: The schooner was [scuttled as a blockship by Confederate forces in Croatan Sound.Gaines, p. 121.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Poulton

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at the Point of Ness, in the Orkney Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to "Portsea".

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom {{convert|6|nmi|km}} from The Lizard with the loss of eleven of her seventeen crew.

}}

22 January

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Anne McLeod

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

|desc=The ship foundered off the coast of County Down. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Arkwright

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore {{convert|5|nmi|km}} south of The Highlands, Massachusetts, United States. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=6 February 1862 |issue=4912 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Colleen Bawn

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Kingstown, County Dublin. She was on a voyage from St. John's, Newfoundland, British North America to Dublin. She was refloated, but ran aground on the North Bull, broke her back, and was abandoned by her crew.{{Cite news |title=The Storm. - Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=23 January 1862 }}

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|ship=Coquimbo

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The full-rigged ship was lost east of Dungeness Spit on the coast of Washington Territory. She later was salvaged.

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|ship=Eupheme

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Druidston, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom with the loss of six of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom to Roscoff, Finistère.

}}

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|ship=Julia

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba. She sank on 24 January.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 March 1862 |page=12 |issue=24184 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 March 1862 |issue=11728 |page=8 }}

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|ship=Liberty

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Howth, County Dublin. She was refloated with assistance from the Howth Lifeboat and taken in to Howth.

}}

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|ship=Padre

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Mounts Bay with the loss of all thirteen crew. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Poultons

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Tankerness, Orkney Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Portsoy, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Late Gales in the North |date=31 January 1862 |page=10 |issue=24157 |column=F }}

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|ship=Queen of Commerce

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Ballymacow", County Waterford. All 24 people on board were rescued by the Coast Guard. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Royal National Lifeboat Institution |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=11 July 1862 |issue=3081 |page=3 }}

}}

23 January

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|ship=Active

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Waterford with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Cork.

}}

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|ship=Amalies Minde

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on Læsø. She was on a voyage from Ebeltoft to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Fredrikshavn in a leaky condition.

}}

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|ship=Columbus

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Lother Rock, in the Pentland Firth, with the loss of all but one of the fifteen people on board. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to the West Indies.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=31 January 1862 |issue=4907 }}

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|ship=Deane

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Towyn, Merionethshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Cádiz, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Gregorius

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at "Kilredane", County Limerick, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to Queenstown, County Cork and Limerick, United Kingdom. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Hope

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at "Gallysworth", Pembrokeshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Mercantile Ship News |location=The Standard |date=27 January 1862 |issue=11688 |page=7 }}

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|ship={{SS|Kangaroo|Smith & Rodger, 1853|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of seven of her fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 January 1862 |page=9 |issue=24151 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Gale and Wreck off Holyhead |date=27 January 1862 |page=10 |issue=24153 |column=F }}

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|ship=Lady Eleanor

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Golsen Bay. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Louisiana

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

|desc=American Civil War: The steamship ran aground off the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America for the second time since 14 January after New Brunswick (flag unknown) collided with her and carried away her anchor. She may have been refloated.

}}

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|ship=Ocean Chief

|flag={{flag|United Kingdom|civil}}

|desc= The clipper was destroyed by arson at Bluff Harbour, New Zealand. Several days earlier, the ship had sustained major damage when she went aground during an attempt to enter the port.Ingram & Wheatley, pp. 75–76.

}}

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|ship=Pardoe

|flag=22px Trieste

|desc=The barque was wrecked in Mounts Bay with the loss of thirteen lives. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping News |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=24 January 1862 |issue=2638 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 January 1862 |issue=4354 }}

}}

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|ship=Prudence

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Milltown, County Galway with the loss of four of her seven crew. She was on a voyage from Limerick to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipwreck and Loss of Life |newspaper=Freeman's Journeal |location=Dublin |date=28 January 1862 }}

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|ship=Sophia

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Waterford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Waterford.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters and Loss of Life |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=24 January 1862 |issue=2638 }}

}}

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|ship=Tiger

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Broomhill", County Waterford with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to New York and/or Boston, Massachusetts.

}}

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|ship=Unidentified schooner

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton and naval stores and trying to exit Mobile Bay via the eastern Swash Channel, the schooner ran aground on the coast of Alabama about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Fort Morgan. The screw steamers {{USS|Huntsville|1857|6}} and {{USS|R. R. Cuyler|1860|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1861}}) then burned her.Gaines, p. 7.

}}

24 January

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|ship=Angelita

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Dunmannus Bay. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Minatitlán, Mexico to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 January 1862 |issue=11689 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Canmore

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Mataró, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Charles Wyman

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Little French Key. She was on a voyage from Gonaïves, Haiti to New York.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 March 1862 |issue=4390 }}

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|ship=Elgin

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Mucaras Reef. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba.

}}

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|ship=Ellen Morrison

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Passage East, County Waterford. She was refloated and towed in to Waterford.

}}

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|ship=Eos

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore {{convert|5|nmi|km}} south of Great Egg Harbour, New Jersey, United States. She was on a voyage from Limerick to New York, United States. She was consequently condemned.

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|ship=Flimzen

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at the Mumbles, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Barcelona, Spain.

}}

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|ship=Giorgetta

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked south of Barnegat, New Jersey with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from New York to Dublin, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Hiawatha

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Corkbeg, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Cork to Liverpool. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=27 January 1862 |issue=4356 }}

}}

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|ship=Indian Ocean

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Annestown, County Waterford. All 25 crew were rescued by Europa ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Indian Ocean was on a voyage from Liverpool to Sydney, New South Wales.{{Cite news |title=Shipwrecks and Loss of Life |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=25 January 1862 |issue=6877 }}

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|ship=Iyd, or
Tyo

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The galiot ran aground in the Vlie. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Harlingen, Friesland to London, United Kingdom.

}}

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|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Westport, County Mayo. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Westport. She was refloated on 28 January but drove ashore againd and was scuttled.

}}

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|ship=John and Mary

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

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked near "Aberbach". She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Youghal, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=25 January 1862 |issue=4355 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=25 January 1862 |issue=11687 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=John Coggin

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

|desc=The brig ran aground at South Shields, County Durham. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields. She was refloated and taken in to South Shields.

}}

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|ship=Julia

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton, was forced to run herself aground on the coast of Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River by the screw steamer {{USS|Mercedita|1861|6}} and other pursuing ships of the Gulf Blockading Squadron (all {{navy|United States|1861}}), which then burned her to prevent her from falling back into Confederate hands.

}}

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|ship=Mary Eleanor

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Galen", County Cork. She was on a voyage from Limerick to the Kingroad.

}}

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|ship=Nevin

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Brownstown, County Westmeath with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Havana.

}}

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|ship=New Quay

|flag={{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|50|nmi|km}} west south west of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Smyrna, Ottoman Empire.{{Cite news |title=Falmouth Express |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=31 January 1862 |issue=3058 |page=5 }}

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|ship={{USS|Peri|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The vessel, earmarked for scuttling as a blockship in Maffit's Channel in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the "Stone Fleet," was blown out to sea by a gale, where she drifted for three days before disappearing.

}}

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|ship=Phœbus

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Raleigh ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Phœbus was on a voyage from South Shields to Barcelona, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=30 January 1862 |issue=4906 }}

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|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Cardigan Island, Cardiganshire. Seven of her eight crew took to the longboat and were presumed lost. The eighth crew member was rescued by the Cardigan Lifeboat. Pioneer was on a voyage from Galaţi, United Principalities, to Caernarfon, Wales.{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=Glen Johnson |access-date=1 February 2015 |archive-date=23 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023024155/http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |url-status=dead }}

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|ship=Unity

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire. She was refloated on 28 January with assistance from the tug Peep o{{'}} Day Boy ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

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|ship=Venus

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Ballymona Bay.

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|ship=Unidentified barque

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The barque, a blockade runner carrying a cargo of cotton, was forced to run herself aground on the coast of Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River by the screw steamer {{USS|Mercedita|1861|6}} and other pursuing ships of the Gulf Blockading Squadron (all {{navy|United States|1861}}), which then burned her to prevent her from falling back into Confederate hands.Gaines, p. 76.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The barque foundered off the coast of County Waterford, United Kingdom with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date= January 1862 |issue=241 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The collier was driven ashore and wrecked at "Ballyrobbin", County Galway with the loss of all hands, at least four lives.

}}

25 January

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|ship=Diana

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground on the Scharrenberg Bank, off Brielle, North Holland, Netherlands.

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|ship=Energy

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

|desc=The brigantine was wrecked at Great Castle Head, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued by the barque Comet ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=27 January 1862 |issue=27490 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Indian Ocean

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Annestown, County Wexford. Her crew were rescued by Europa ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Indian Ocean was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Sydney, New South Wales.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wreck of the Ship Indian Ocean |date=27 January 1862 |page=10 |issue=24153 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=29 January 1862 |page=10 |issue=24155 |column=D-E }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jenny

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Sligo, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=La Force

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked in Freshwater Bay with the loss of seven of her crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom to Senegal.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Ballyteague Bay.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mayflower

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

|desc=The brig foundered off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire with the loss of all hands.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Prudenter

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

|desc=The ship was beached at Douarnenez, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Porto, Portugal.

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|ship=Rokeby

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Irish Sea {{convert|70|nmi|km}} west by south of Milford Haven. Her crew were rescued by an American ship, but subsequently reboarded her. She was towed in to Milford Haven in a sinking condition by the steamship Rokeby ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Severn

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

|desc=The barque foundered off Milford Haven with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=17 February 1862 |page=10 |issue=24171 |column=D }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified vessel

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

|desc=American Civil War: The vessel was sunk near Norfolk, Virginia.Gaines, p. 193.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered off Milford Haven with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disasters near Milford Haven |date=27 January 1862 |page=7 |issue=24153 |column=E }}

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26 January

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|ship= Advance

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

|desc=The 96-ton sidewheel towboat exploded on the Ohio River off Barnes Warehouse above New Matamoros, Ohio, killing three people.Gaines, pp. 133-134.

}}

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|ship=RMS America

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground at Cork. She was refloated with assistance from {{HMS|Virago|1842|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) and resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Ireland |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=31 January 1862 |issue=27494 |page=3 }}

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|ship=Asia

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned {{convert|102|nmi|km}} off the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. Her nineteen crew survived. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 March 1862 |issue=4406 }}{{cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?exact=1&year_built=&builder=&ref=13717&vessel=ASIA |title=Asia |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Research Trust |access-date=1 March 2020 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918115931/https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?exact=1&year_built=&builder=&ref=13717&vessel=ASIA |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=5 April 1862 |issue=6937 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|India|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The vessel was scuttled as a blockship in Maffit's Channel in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America as part of the "Stone Fleet."

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged near Wigtown. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to the Clyde.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=1 February 1862 |issue=6883 }} She was refloated on 29 January and taken in to Garliestown, Wigtownshire.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship= John Hart

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

|desc=The 220-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua.Gaines, p. 35.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Ann

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

|desc=The barque ran aground in the River Shannon. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 January 1862 |issue=4359 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Spuell and Moss

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooner as a blockship off Weir's Point on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.Gaines, p. 129.

}}

27 January

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|ship=Annie Porter

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Berbice, British Guiana. She was on a voyage from Berbice to London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=19 March 1862 |issue=11731 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 27 February and taken in to Berbice.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 April 1862 |issue=11742 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ella

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

|desc=The schooner was run down and sunk by a steamship in the River Mersey. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=5 February 1862 |issue=5952 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hercules

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on Dragør, Denmark.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=28 January 1862 |issue=6879 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Zenith

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the vessel as a blockship off Weir's Point on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

}}

28 January

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|ship=Angelica

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Creden Head, County Waterford, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and ran aground off the north Norfolk coast. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was refloated and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 February 1862 |issue=11697 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=John & Isabella

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

|desc=The ship struck the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, and foundered. Her five crew and the ship's dog were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat ({{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Royal National Lifeboat Institution).{{cite web |url=http://walberswick.onesuffolk.net/assets/WLHG/ShipsShipwrecks1782-1845.pdf |title=Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874 |first=Alan Farquar |last=Bottomley |publisher=Suffolk Records Society |access-date=26 December 2014 |archive-date=24 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224113403/http://walberswick.onesuffolk.net/assets/WLHG/ShipsShipwrecks1782-1845.pdf |url-status=live }}

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|ship=Mersey

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

|desc=The barque ran aground at North Shields, Northumberland. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=31 January 1862 |issue=9762 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess Alice

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Sizewell Bank and sank. Her five crew took to a boat and were rescued by the Southwold Lifeboat. Princess Alice was on a voyage from Seaham, county Durham to Ipswich, Suffolk.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rio

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooner as a blockship off Weir's Point on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.Gaines, p. 128.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sally

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank at "Muldhor", Renfrewshire. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=W. A. Brown

|flag={{flag|United States|1851}}

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the Bristol Channel {{convert|20|nmi|km}} west of Lundy Island, Devon, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by Corinthian ({{Flag|Denmark}}). W. A. Brown was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom to Montevideo, Uruguay.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The collier was driven ashore at Youghal, County Cork with the loss of all hands, at least four lives.

}}

29 January

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|ship=Cheviot

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

|desc=The ship was run into and sunk by the steamship Ætna ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) {{convert|5|nmi|km}} west of Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of 33 of her 34 crew. Cheviot was on a voyage from Bombay, India to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Royal Cornwall Gazette |location=Truro |date=7 February 1862 |issue=3059 |page=3 }}

}}

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|ship=Feof

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at "Dunally" or "Dunworky", County Cork. She was on a voyage from Odesa to Queenstown, County Cork.

}}

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|ship=Flying Dragon

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

|desc=Carrying a cargo of coal, the 1,127-ton full-rigged ship sank in a storm near Arch Rock in San Francisco Bay, California.Gaines, p. 27.

}}

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|ship=Hector

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rostock.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=14 February 1862 |issue=9764 }}

}}

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|ship=Jacob Horton

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Granville, Manche, France with the loss of one of her 23 crew. Eighteen survivors were rescued by Moise Roux ({{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}). Jacob Horton was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to London, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=4 February 1862 |issue=4910 }}

}}

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|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked on Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Neptune

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Gravelines, Nord, France. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Lowestoft.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 January 1862 |issue=11692 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship={{HMS|Shannon|1855|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Liffey|frigate}} ran aground on the Calshot Spit. She was refloated.{{Cite news |title=A War Frigate Aground |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=29 January 1862 |issue=1624 |volume=32 }}

}}

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|ship=Thomas Fielden

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Alma ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Thomas Fielden was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tripleet

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooner as a blockship off Weir's Point on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Union

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Holme Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Chatham, Kent. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=William Edward

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alloa, Clackmannanshire to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a derelict condition.

}}

30 January

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|ship=Crown

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Bahia, Brazil. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 January 1862 |issue=4360 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hector

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Skagen, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Hetton|1854|2}}

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

|desc=The steamship collided with a barque in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire. She was towed in to Scarborough by the tug {{PS|Ryhope|1860|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), where she sank.{{Cite news |title=Collision off Scarborough |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 February 1862 |issue=4908 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Huguenot

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at "Metimont", Pas-de-Calais, France. Her eighteen crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Colombo, Ceylon to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 February 1862 |page=12 |issue=24158 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Wreck near Etaples |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=1 February 1862 |issue=4908 }}

}}

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|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The Yorkshire Billyboy was run down and sunk in the Swin by the steamship General Havelock ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}), which rescued her crew.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maryland

|flag=Unknown

|desc=Carrying a cargo of coffee, the barque was wrecked at Inagua in the Bahamas.Gaines, p. 19.

}}

31 January

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|ship=Barbara Davidson

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Cayeux-sur-Mer, Somme, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Teignmouth, Devon to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Colmar

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

|desc=The ship was lost near Onsala. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Gothenburg.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 February 1862 |issue=4362 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|Onward|1860|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug struck the pier at North Shields, Northumberland and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was refloated on 4 February.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=7 February 1862 |issue=9763 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sirocco

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. She was refloated with assistance and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Southern Star

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

|desc=American Civil War: Confederate forces scuttled the schooner, in ballast, as a blockship off Weir's Point on Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

}}

Unknown date

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Abelazado

|flag={{flag|Portugal|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Porto before 15 February.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Aberfoyle

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Hull, Yorkshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Agnes

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Porto before 15 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alfred Herman

|flag={{flag|Bremen}}

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on Formosa. Her crew survived.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 March 1862 |issue=4399 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alice

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Britannia and Canada (both {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Alice was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Mauritius.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=3 February 1862 |issue=27496 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alice Maud

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bass Harbor, Maine. She was refloated and taken in to Eastport, Maine for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligebce |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 February 1862 |issue=4370 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Argentine

|flag=22px Austrian Empire

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Clardott Point before 22 January. She was on a voyage from Odesa to an English port. She was refloated with assistance from a steamship and taken in to Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Arizona

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

|desc=The sternwheel paddle steamer struck an abutment on the Ohio River at Louisville, Kentucky, and sank in mid-January. She was refloated in mid-February.Gaines, p. 134.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ashburton

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} South Australia

|desc=The ship ran aground at Adelaide. She was declared a total loss.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 September 1862 |issue=4554 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Belle Pauline

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Cadaqués, Spain.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Foreign Intelligence |date=8 January 1862 |page=9 |issue=24137 |column=A-C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bogota

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Loaded with 300 short tons (272 metric tons/tonnes) of stone, the 300-ton merchant ship was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina, Confederate States of America as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.Gaines, p. 143.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bonne Mère

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Rosas, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cairo

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

|desc=The barque was lost off Berdyansk, Russia. Three crew were rescued by the brig Fanny ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Cheronese

|flag={{flag|Russian Empire}}

|desc=The steamship ran ashore in Kertch Bay before 3 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Christen

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the Mediterranean Sea before 6 January. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Venice, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Clorinde

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Oran, Algeria to Cette, Hérault. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Cynisca|| 2}}

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

|desc= The fishing schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts on 13 December 1861 and vanished, probably lost on 1 January on the Georges Bank in a gale. Lost with all 9 hands.{{cite web |url=https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |title=Lost at sea |publisher=gloucester-ma.gov |access-date=7 June 2021 |archive-date=6 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506124722/https://gloucester-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/404/LOST-AT-SEAAPR?bidId= |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/cynisca.htm |title=The Cynisca |publisher=downtosea.com |access-date=7 June 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017101343/https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/cynisca.htm |url-status=live }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Destinado

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Rye, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Africa to London. She was refloated and taken in tow for London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dictator

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The barque capsized in the Pacific Ocean off the United States West Coast between Puget Sound in Washington Territory and San Francisco, California.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Diligent

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Nice, Alpes-Maritimes. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Dove

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 146- or 151-ton bark, a former whaler, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston Harbor off Charleston, South Carolina as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.Gaines, p. 145.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Edith

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Porto before 15 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ellen

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Mary Heaton ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Ellen was on a voyage from New York to Queenstown, County Cork or Liverpool, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fanny

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked near Sinope, Ottoman Empire with the loss of all on board.{{Cite news |title=Fatal Storms in the Black Sea |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=3 February 1862 |issue=7429 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Forest King

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

|desc=The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Coquimbo, Chile to Queenstown.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 February 1862 |issue=4368 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George Avery

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

|desc=The ship was presumed to have foundered in the Black Sea before 22 January with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Grapeshot

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

|desc= While under tow in the North Atlantic Ocean with a cargo of hay and oats, the armed transport parted the hawser during a storm that struck from 13 to 16 January and was driven ashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Confederate States of America 14 miles (22.5 km) north of Cape Hatteras.Gaines, p. 120.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hamilton

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

|desc=The ship foundered off Double Island, Hong Kong. She was on a voyage from Swatow, China to Singapore, Straits Settlements.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Iskandria

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Formosa. Her crew survived.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John Bonham

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

|desc=The ship foundered between 4 and 14 January. she was on a voyage from Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. Wreckage from the ship washed up at Fleetwood, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jubilee

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 233-ton barque, a former merchant ship loaded with stone, was scuttled]as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston Harbor as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.Gaines, p. 149.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kaluna

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The 96-ton schooner was wrecked on Humboldt Bar in Humboldt Bay on the coast of California.Gaines, p. 28.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lais

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Southampton, New York, United States. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to New York City.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SV|Lifeboat||2}}

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

|desc=The schooner left Gloucester, Massachusetts 27 December 1861 and vanished. Probably lost in the 1 January gale. lost with all 9 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1862.htm |title=1862 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=8 July 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019115335/https://www.downtosea.com/1851-1875/1862.htm |url-status=live }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Loodianah

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Indian Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Nagasaki (Flag unknown). Loodianah was on a voyage from Moulmein, Burma to Queenstown and/or Liverpool. She was taken in to Galle, Ceylon by Nagasaki.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=8 February 1862 |issue=11699 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maia

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

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Maceió, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Bahia, Brazil to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Majestic

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 397-ton full-rigged ship was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston Harbor, as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.Gaines, p. 150.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret Scott

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 330-ton barque was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The ship sank in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Paramaribo, Brazil. She was refloated on 7 January and beached at Egremont, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 January 1862 |page=12 |issue=24138 |column=E }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marmion

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked near "Carabournou", Ottoman Empire before 9 January with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Odesa to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary Lee

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

|desc=The ship caught fire at Shanghai, China and was scuttled.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mechanic

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 335-ton full-rigged ship, a former whaler, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Messenger

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 216-ton barque, a former whaler, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel in Charleston Harbor, as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Metropolitan

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

|desc=American Civil War: The barque was captured and burnt in the Mediterranean Sea by CSS Sumter ({{navy|Confederate States of America}}) before 19 January. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily, Italy to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 January 1862 |issue=11684 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Miles Standish

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Timor Strait. Her crew were rescued by Ville de Dieppe ({{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}). Miles Standish was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hong Kong.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{SS|Mona's Queen|1853|2}}

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} Isle of Man

|desc=The paddle steamer collided with the steamship Sligo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the River Mersey

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Navinto

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea before 27 January. She was on a voyage from Moulmein to Leith, Lothian.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Newburyport

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 341-ton full-rigged ship, a former whaler, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.Gaines, p. 152.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|New England|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 336- or 368-ton full-rigged ship, a former whaler, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffit's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Noble

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 274-ton barque, a former whaler loaded with stone, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffitt's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet" on either 25 or 26 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Oscar

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at Invercargill, New Zealand. All on board were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pelissier

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The steamship was wrecked at "Pandurma", Ottoman Empire before 15 February.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Queen Esther

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint John's, Newfoundland to Cuba.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rambler

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. She was on a voyage from Cuba to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Republic

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

|desc=The steamer was lost at the Golden Gate off San Francisco, California.Gaines, p. 30.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=R. H. Gamble

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Rio Grande to Queenstown.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rosalie

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was stranded at Point Arena, California.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sappho

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Safi, Morocco.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scandinavian

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 January 1862 |issue=4347 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Saline

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

|desc=The ship foundered "east of Benley". She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=21 January 1862 |issue=7418 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=San José

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at French Wells, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from St. Jago de Cuba, Cuba to Swansea, Glamorgan. She was refloated and taken in to Nassau, Bahamas where she arrived on 7 January.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sparking Wave

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The schooner was lost in the Pacific Ocean during a voyage from San Francisco, California, to Shoalwater Bay, Queensland.Gaines, p. 31.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Stephen Young|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 200-ton brig, a former merchant ship, was scuttled as a blockship in Maffit's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet."Gaines, p. 155.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=T. H. Allen

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The 48-ton schooner was wrecked with the loss of one life while trying to cross Humboldt Bay on the coast of California.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thomas Sparks

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Hong Kong before 10 January.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 January 1862 |page=4 |issue=24142 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Timor|1861|6}}

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The 289-ton full-rigged ship was scuttled in Maffitt's Channel as part of the "Stone Fleet."Gaines, p. 156.

}}

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|ship=CSS Tuscarora

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

|desc= The armed sidewheel paddle steamer was destroyed at New Orleans, Louisiana, by an accidental fire.Gaines, p. 74.

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|ship=Vesta

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned at sea. Her crew were rescued by Canada ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Vesta was on a voyage from a Spanish port to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victor Henri

|flag={{flagcountry|Second French Empire}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Benicarló, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cette to Oran.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Village Belle

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 20 January. She was on a voyage from Nova Scotia to the West Indies.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 February 1862 |page=10 |issue=24174 |column=C }}

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|ship=Vrie Gezusters

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Anholt, Denmark before 15 January. She was on a voyage from Datzig to Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, United Kingdom.

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified barge

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

|desc=The barge sank off the coast of North Carolina on the outer Hatteras Bar in early January.

}}

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.
{{cite book |title=Warships of the Civil War Navies |first=Paul |last=Silverstone |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis |year=1989 |isbn=0-87021-783-6}}

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