List of shipwrecks in October 1863

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The list of shipwrecks in October 1863 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during October 1863.

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1 October

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|ship=Caspar

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Transit ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Caspar was on a voyage from a port in Chile to New York.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The West India, Pacific, and Mexico Mails |date=29 October 1863 |page=5 |issue=24702 |column=D-E }}

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|ship=Eliza

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She floated off and sank. Her crew were rescued by the smack Marco Polo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Eliza was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |author-link=Hervey Benham |page=189 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 October 1863 |issue=4882 }}{{Cite news |title=Harwich |newspaper=Essex Standard |location=Colchester |date=7 October 1863 |issue=1712 |volume=33 }}

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|desc=The snow ran aground on the Ridges, in the Bristol Channel and was wrecked. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Llanelly, Glamorgan to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=9 October 1863 |issue=9850 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.searlecanada.org/sunderland/sunderland042.html |title=SHIPBUILDERS - PAGE 3 |publisher=Searle |access-date=24 April 2020}}

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|ship=Wanderer

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

|desc=The ship was driven on to the North Rock, in the Belfast Lough. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Demerara, British Guiana.

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2 October

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|ship=Antelope

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|50|nmi|km}} west of Ouessant, Finistère, France. Her crew were rescued by Jane Elizabeth ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Antelope was on a voyage from Pomeron, Portugal to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 October 1863 |page=10 |issue=24682 |column=B }}

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|ship=Ganjam

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, Indian to Mauritius. She was refloated on 9 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 November 1863 |issue=4921 }}

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|ship=Northbound

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on a reef off "Bontan Island". She was refloated with assistance from {{HMS|Alecto|1839|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) and towed in to Singapore, Straits Settlements in a waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Robert McKenzie

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and put back to Calcutta.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 November 1863 |issue=4912 }}

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|ship=Royal Tar

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Scalloway, Shetland Islands. She was on a voyage from Lerwick, Shetland Islands to London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 October 1863 |issue=12233 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Standard

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 October 1863 |issue=12223 |page=8 }}

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|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The sloop sank in Liverpool Bay.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=3 October 1863 |issue=4883 }}

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3 October

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|ship=Allport

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. She was refloated with the assistance of a tug and towed in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Antelope

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

|desc=The brigantine was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean {{convert|50|nmi|km}} west of Ouessant, Finistère, France. Her five crew were rescued by the brig St. Jean ({{flag|France}}). Antelope was on a voyage from Pomaron, Portugal to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

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|ship=Cambridge

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

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

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|ship=Dilston

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

|desc=The barque was damaged by fire at North Shields, Northumberland.

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|ship=Essex

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The full-rigged ship was lost at the mouth of the Mutlah River, India. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from the Mutlah River to Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 November 1863 |page=7 |issue=24709 |column=D }}

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|ship=Gem

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Anholt, Denmark. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

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4 October

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|ship=Annsch

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Minorca, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Agrigento, Sicily, Italy to Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=7 October 1863 |issue=3170 }}

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|ship=Atalanta

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

|desc=The ship was sighted whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to New York. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 March 1864 |issue=12345 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Catahoula

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 92.

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|ship=Chancellor

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 392-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

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|ship=Cypress

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Diamond Point, Grand Bahama, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba. An attempt by {{USS|Juniata|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}) to tow her off failed and she became a wreck.

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|ship=Experiment

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked at Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands. Her eight crew survived. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom.

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|ship=Forest Queen

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 419-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was burned by Confederate agents on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

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|ship=Ivanhoe

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

|desc=The ship departed from Invercargill, New Zealand for Sydney, New South Wales. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=18 March 1864 |issue=23306}}

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|ship=Roman

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Huna, Caithness. She was on a voyage from Greenland to Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=13 October 1863 |issue=3175 }}

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5 October

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|ship=Concordia

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner was burned by her crew on the Calcasieu River at Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana, Confederate States of America to prevent her capture by an armed cutter and gig from the gunboat {{USS|Granite City|1863}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).[http://www.usnlp.org/navychronology/1863b.html usnlp.org Navy Chronology of the Civil War, July-December 1863]Gaines, p. 62.

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|ship=Neptune

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on Scharhörn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Hamburg.

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|ship={{HMS|Penguin|1860|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Philomel|gunvessel}} was driven ashore at the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.{{Cite news |title=Naval Disasters Since 1860 |newspaper=Hampshire Telegraph |location=Portsmouth |date=10 May 1873 |issue=4250 }}

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|ship=Sir Colin Campbell

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Rye, Sussex. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Rye.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 October 1863 |issue=4885 }}

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6 October

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|ship=Crescent

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

|desc=The schooner was run into by a barque off Corsewall Point, Wigtownshire. She was taken in tow by the steamship Wolfe but consequently foundered. Her crew were rescued by Wolfe. .{{Cite news |title=Shipping Casualties |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=9 October 1863 |issue=32594 }} Crescen was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Cork.

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|ship=Ekea Maria

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

|desc=The ship collided with Henriette ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the North Sea off Borkum, Kingdom of Hanover and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by Henriette. Ekea Maria was on a voyage from Kristiansand to "Kleinsiel". She was towed in to Cuxhaven on 7 October by the steamship A{{'}}Olof (Flag unknown).

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|ship=Ouse

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

|desc=The steamship was damaged by fire at Copenhagen, Denmark. SHe was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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|ship=Sarah Ann

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Plymouth, Devon. She was refloated with the assistance of the smack Victoria ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and assisted in to Harwich, Essex.

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The brig was run into by the steamship Iron Duke ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the River Liffey.{{Cite news |title=Wreck in the Liffey |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=9 October 1863 |issue=4888 }}

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7 October

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|ship=Alexander

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

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire for Plymouth, Devon. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

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|ship=Ann and Margaret

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

|desc=The ship struck the wreck of Karla ({{flag|Bremen}}) off the South Foreland, Kent and was damaged. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure, France. She put in to Ramsgate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 October 1863 |issue=12219 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Argus

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The steamboat was captured and burned on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor {{USS|Osage|1863|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 59.

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|ship=Charles Whitley

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

|desc=The ship sank in the River Dee. She was on a voyage from the River Dee to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire.

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|ship=Charlotte

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Kilcoole, County Wicklow with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=12 October 1863 |page=11 |issue=24687 |column=B-C }}

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|ship=Estella

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Drogheda, County Louth. She wason a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Drogheda. She was refloated and taken in to Drogheda in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=12 October 1863 |issue=4890 }}

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|ship=General Havelock, and
Nelson

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

|desc=The schooner General Havelock and the brigantine Nelson collided in the English Channel {{convert|6|nmi|km}} off Beachy Head, Sussex. Both vessels were abandoned by their crews. General Havelock was on a voyage from London to Ryde, Isle of Wight. She was subsequently towed in to Newhaven, Sussex in a derelict condition. Nelson was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to London. She consequently sank.{{cite book |title=Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century |first=David |last=Renno |pages=218–20 |publisher=Amherst Publishing |location=Sevenoaks |year=2004 |isbn=1-903637-20-1}}

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|ship=James

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

|desc=The schooner collided with Zaide Celine ({{Flag|France}} and foundered off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Zaide Celine.

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|ship={{PS|Mexico|1863|2}}

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

|desc=File:PS Mexico fire 1863.jpg The paddle steamer was destroyed by fire {{convert|40|nmi|km}} off Cape San Antonio, Cuba with the loss of about 60 lives. Sixteen people were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sisal, Mexico to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Destruction of a Spanish Steamer by fire at Sea |newspaper=Penny Illustrated Paper |location=London |date=28 November 1863 |issue=113 |page=348 |volume=V }}

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|ship=Pushmataha

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo consisting of claret, gunpowder, and a naval ram, the blockade runner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River while trying to enter the Mermentau River. Her crew set her on fire and abandoned her, after which a boat crew from the gunboat {{USS|Cayuga|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}) boarded her, removed all of her cargo except two kegs of gunpowder, and blew her up.Gaines, p. 72.

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|ship=Reine

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Warkworth, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure.

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|ship=Ringdove

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

|desc=The schooner foundered {{convert|20|nmi|km}} north east of the Copeland Islands, County Donegal. Her crew were rescued by the barque Immaculata ({{flagcountry|Kingdom of Italy|civil}}). Ringdove was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Dundalk, County Louth.

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|ship=Robert Fulton

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The 158-ton sidewheel steamboat was captured on the Red River of the South by a boat expedition from the monitor {{USS|Osage|1863|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}) and was burned at the river′s mouth.Gaines, p. 73.

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|ship=Schnellpost

|flag=22px Stettin

|desc=The schooner collided with a barque and was abandoned in the Baltic Sea {{convert|5|nmi|km}} off the Falsterbo Lighthouse, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was towed in to Wismar in a derelict condition on 10 October.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 November 1863 |issue=12260 |page=7 }}

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|ship=Sunshine

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Barrow in Furness to Liverpool, Lancashire.

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|ship=Susannah

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

|desc=The ship foundered in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued by the tug United States ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Susannah was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 October 1863 |page=10 |issue=24685 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 October 1863 |issue=4887 }}

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|ship=Union

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dundalk, County Louth. Her crew were rescued by the Dundalk Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Drogheda, County Louth.

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|ship=Unidentified schooner

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was chased ashore on the coast of Louisiana off the Calcasieu River by a boat crew from the gunboat {{USS|Cayuga|1861|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}). The schooner′s crew blew her up before the boat crew could board her.Gaines, p. 76.

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8 October

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|ship=Charm

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Swinebottoms, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Buckie, Banffshire to Memel, Prussia. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingør, Denmark.

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|ship=Farewell

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Swinebottoms. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Lübeck. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingør.

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|ship=Gilbert Munro

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Leman Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 October 1863 |issue=4889 }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 October 1863 |issue=12221 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 11 October and taken in tow by some smacks, but consequently sank {{convert|11|nmi|km}} north west of the Dowsing Lightship (22px Trinity House).

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|ship=Joshua Carroll

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged at Teignmouth, Devon.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 October 1863 |issue=12220 |page=7 }} She was refloated on 11 October and taken in to Teignmouth.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=16 October 1863 |issue=23176 }}

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|ship=Need

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

|desc=The ship sank at Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Cardiff.

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|ship=Porthcressa

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Isles of Scilly.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=13 October 1863 |issue=4891 }}

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|ship=Rudolph

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Swinebottoms and sank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Danzig. Rudolph was later refloated and taken in to Helsingør in a severely leaky condition.

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|ship=Schyryd

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Teignmouth.

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9 October

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|ship=Bold Hunter

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

|desc=American Civil War: The full-rigged ship, bound for Calcutta, India, from Dundee, Forfarshire, with a cargo of coal, was captured and burned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French West Africa ({{coord|19|N|21|W|name=Bold Hunter}}) by the merchant raider CSS Georgia ({{navy|Confederate States of America|1863}}).Gaines, p. 13.

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|ship=Ceres

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Bridport, Dorset and was wrecked. SHe was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Bridport.

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|ship=Faedernes Minde

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Tønsberg to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was refloated with the assistance of three smacks and assisted in to Harwich, Essex in a waterlogged condition.

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|ship=Flowery Land

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was scuttled off the mouth of the River Plate after some of her crew had mutinied ad killed several officers and crew members. Fourteen people abandoned ship in two boats. The ship's second mate gave information to the authorities and the survivors were arrested. They were passed to the British authorities at Maldonado, Uruguay and detained on board {{HMS|Curlew|1854|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}). Flowery Land was on a voyage from London to Singapore, Straits Settlements.{{Cite news |title=Scuttling of a British Ship and Murder of the Captain and Officers by the crew |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 December 1863 |issue=12266 |page=3 }} Seven of her crew were convicted of murder and were sentenced to hang. Another crew member was convicted of attempting to scuttle the ship, and was sentenced to 10 years penal servitude.{{Cite news |title=The Case of Murder and Piracy at Sea |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=6 February 1864 |issue=4991 }} Two of those convicted were reprieved, five were hanged at Newgate Prison, London on 23 February 1864.{{Cite news |title=Execution of the Five Pirate Murderers |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 February 1864 |issue=12336 |page=5 }}

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|ship=Jeune Henri

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Manche with some loss of life.

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|ship=Lucknow

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

|desc=The ship was beached at Dungeness, Kent, where she was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Antwerp, Belgium.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 October 1863 |issue=12222 |page=8 }}

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|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The schooner was destroyed in the Welland Canal by the explosion of petroleum in her hold with the loss of four crew.{{Cite news |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=5 November 1863 |issue=1675 }}

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|ship=Percy

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Blyth, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated on 23 October and taken in to Blyth.

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|ship=Trinidad

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked on the Colorados, off the coast of Cuba. She was on a voyage from Matanzas, Cuba to New York.

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10 October

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|ship=Austral

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship sprang a leak and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Rhine ({{flag|United States|1863}}). Austral was on a voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=18 November 1863 |issue=3206 }}{{Cite news |title=Foundering of the London and Adelaide Ship Austral |date= November 1863 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ehdu

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

|desc=The ship departed from Youghal, County Cork for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elider

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

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool for Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=20 November 1863 |issue=23205 }}

}}

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship capsized at Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|Energy|South Shore, 1856|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug ran aground and sank at the mouth of the River Tees. Her crew were rescued by a Prussian vessel.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lina

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

|desc=The ship collided with the barque City of Sidney ({{flag|Norway|1844}}) and was abandoned by her crew, who were rescued by City of Sidney. Lina was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Malmö.She was taken in to Helsingør, Denmark in a derelict condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thorley

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Sterlsand, in the North Sea and was abandoned. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Hamburg. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Cuxhaven.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=26 October 1863 |page=11 |issue=24699 |column=D }}

}}

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|ship=Vigilence

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Loch Boisdale. She was on a voyage from Douglas, Isle of Man to Gothenburg. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 November 1863 |issue=12250 |page=6 }}

}}

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11 October

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|ship=Alfred

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

|desc=The ship ran aground and sank in the River Wear. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Dashing Wave

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the coast of Mexico. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Douro

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Carrying a cargo of cotton, rosin, tobacco, and turpentine, the steamer was chased ashore, set afire and destroyed on the coast of North Carolina near New Inlet by the sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Nansemond|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 117.

}}

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|ship=Elvira

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 222-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at the foot of Widow Beard's Island below St. Louis, Missouri.Gaines, p. 94.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emma

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore on the Hurst Spit, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Swansea, Glamorgan.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Esperance

|flag={{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Falsterbo, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Stettin to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Helsingør, Denmark in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{USS|Madgie|1858|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The gunboat foundered in heavy seas off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina while under tow by the screw steamer {{USS|Fahkee|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 123.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marianne

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Bornholm, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Dublin, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Onslow

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore near Jonesport, Maine, United States. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to an Irish port.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 November 1863 |issue=4913 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Radiant

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Tekeskar". She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{PS|Red Jacket|1842|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle steamer was wrecked on the Goat Island Reef, off Barbuda, Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cork to Nassau, Bahamas.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Reine des Flots

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the Pennington Spit, in the English Channel. She was on a voyage from Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland to Bordeaux, Gironde. She was refloated but drove ashore on the Hurst Spit.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rover

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner ran ashore at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Confederate States of America .Gaines, pp. 154-155.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Snip

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ketch ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. She was refloated with assistance from the Walmer Lifeboat and a tug towed her in to Ramsgate, Kent.{{Cite news |title=Casualties at Sea |newspaper=Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper |location=London |date=18 October 1863 |issue=1091 }}

}}

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12 October

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|ship={{RMS|Africa|1850|6}}

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

|desc=The steamship struck a sunken rock off Cape Race, Newfoundland, British North America and was holed. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. She put in to Saint John's, Newfoundland sinking at the bows.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Accident to the Royal Mail Steamship Africa |date=11 November 1863 |page=10 |issue=24713 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=22 October 1863 |issue=4899 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=B. F. Carver

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship ran aground and was severely damaged at Fleetwood, Lancashire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Columbia

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was burned to the waterline at Ape's Hole near the head of Pocomoke Sound, {{convert|15|nmi|km}} from Drummondtown, Virginia, by a Union small boat expedition.Gaines, p. 78.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Earl of Windsor

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Port Albert, Victoria.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 December 1863 |page=10 |issue=24736 |column=C }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship capsized at Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 October 1863 |page=9 |issue=24688 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her crew off the mouth of the Brazos River to prevent her capture by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Tennessee|1853|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}). She blew up, and the explosion was heard 30 miles away in Galveston, Texas, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 169.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the East Mouse, in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued by a tug.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Peace

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Ness Point, Suffolk. She was refloated and towed in to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wilhelmines Haab

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked north of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her eight crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Porsgrund to Montrose, Forfarshire, United Kingdom.

}}

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13 October

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|ship=Star of the North

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Mandilli", near Syros, Kingdom of Greece. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Constanţa, Ottoman Empire to Cork or Falmouth, Cornwall.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval and Military Intelligence |date=17 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24718 |column=B-C }}

}}

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14 October

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|ship=Culloden

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|46|30|N|26|38|W}}). Her crew were rescued by New Brunswick ({{flagicon|UKGBI}} British North America) was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24708 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=27 October 1863 |issue=23184 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Cleopatra ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Quebec City to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lady Jackson

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 207-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the White River in Arkansas.Gaines, p. 10.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship={{HMS|Malacca|1853|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The corvette ran aground at Fort St. Angelo, Malta. She was refloated and returned to service.

}}

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15 October

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|ship=Ada

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

|desc=The barque was run down and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea {{convert|25|nmi|km}} off "Villa Rica" by the steamship {{SS|Sicilian|1859|2}} {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) with the loss of two lives. She was on a voyage from Arzew, Algeria to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=Mail News |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=26 October 1863 |issue=23183 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Good Intent

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

|desc=The ship struck the breakwater at Great Yarmouth and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. She put back to Great Yarmouth in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=H. L. Hunley

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863|name=Confederate States Army}}

|desc=American Civil War: The submarine sank off Charleston, South Carolina, while making a mock attack during training in Charleston Harbor. The accident killed her entire eight-man crew, including her inventor, Horace Lawson Hunley. She was refloated and returned to service.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=White

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The tug was destroyed at Pungo Landing, Virginia, Confederate States of America by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.Gaines, pp. 190, 194.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified dredge

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The dredge was destroyed at Pungo Landing, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.Gaines, p. 194.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unidentified vessels

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The vessels were destroyed at Pungo Landing, by Confederate forces on 15 or 16 October.

}}

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16 October

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=A. B. Noyes

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The barge was burned by Confederate forces in Tampa Bay off Fort Brooke, Florida, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 37.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Larne, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

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

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

|desc=The steamship was wrecked on the Alguada Reef. She was on a voyage from Rangoon, Burma to Calcutta, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=26 November 1863 |issue=4929 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=8 December 1863 |issue=4939 }} Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Elida

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

|desc=The ship departed from for Liverpool, Lancashire for Cork. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emma F. Minna

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Eurydice ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Emma F. Minna was on a voyage from Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industrie

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from the Rance to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 26 October and taken in to Harwich, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 October 1863 |issue=12235 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner was destroyed by her own crew in the Gulf of Mexico off the mouth of the Rio Grande to prevent her capture by the sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Tennessee|1853|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Margaret Leinhard

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Larne. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean Child

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

|desc=The ship struck rocks at Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Pugwash, Nova Scotia to Liverpool. She was refloated and put in to Pictou, Nova Scotia for repairs.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Phœnician

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Echo ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Phœnician was on a voyage from New York, United States to Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24711 |column=A }}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 November 1863 |issue=12246 |page=7 }}

}}

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17 October

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|ship=Alida

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Wiener Diep. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Amsterdam, North Holland. She was refloated and put in to Geestemünde in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Albion

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore on Jura, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Danzig. She was later refloated and taken in to Londonderry for repairs.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=9 November 1863 |issue=12245 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Argo

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 October 1863 |page=9 |issue=24694 |column=F }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Helena

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Zegler Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Bo'ness, Lothian to Brake, Kingdom of Hanover.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jessie Alexander

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Stoneskar, Russia. She was on a voyage from St. Davids, Pembrokeshire to Kronstadt, Russia. She had become a wreck by 27 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Kate Dale

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her moorings in the Hillsborough River {{convert|2|nmi|km}} above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Adela}} and the gunboat {{USS|Tahoma|1861|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 42.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess

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

|desc=The brigantine sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea {{convert|8|nmi|km}} off Filey, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Willian and Henry ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Princess was on a voyage from South Shields to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rover

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The schooner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, by a boat crew from the schooner {{USS|T. A. Ward|1861|6}}.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scottish Chief

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner, carrying a cargo of cotton, was destroyed at her mooring in the Hillsborough River {{convert|2|nmi|km}} above Tampa, Florida, by a landing party from the sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Adela}} and the gunboat {{USS|Tahoma|1861|6}} (both {{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 44.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Victor Emmanuel

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Fulta, India. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, Indoa.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=24 November 1863 |issue=23208 }}

}}

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18 October

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|ship=Antigua Packet

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked in the Solway Firth with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Workington, Cumberland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Lancaster Gazetter |location=Lancaster |date=24 October 1863 |issue=3995 |page=8 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bertha

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Schwarzort, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Memel, Prussia. She broke up on 19 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Danube

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on Scroby Sands, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from the River Tyne to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The schooner was lost off Amlwch, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire.{{Cite news |title=Runcorn |newspaper=Cheshire Observer |location=Chester |date=24 October 1863 |issue=437 |volume=9 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maid of Athens

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

|desc=The brig ran aground north west of Læsø Denmark. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Korsør, Denmark. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship{{PS|Mimosa|1854|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle steamer was wrecked at Bunga Head with the loss of two of the 38 people on board. She was on a voyage from Merimbula to Sydney.{{Cite web |url=http://clydeships.co.uk/view.php?year_built=&builder=&ref=9987&vessel=MIMOSA |title=Mimosa |publisher=Caledonian Maritime Heritage Trust |access-date=29 April 2020 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

19 October

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|ship=Briton

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Pondicherry, India. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=13 November 1863 |page=10 |issue=24715 |column=F }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 November 1863 |page=10 |issue=24724 |column=F }} She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France and London.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 November 1863 |issue=12258 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Camilla

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Echo

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked on the Kicking Taylor Reef, off the south coast of Cuba. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 January 1864 |issue=12293 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fauzal

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cochin, India.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marietta

|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Tramore, County Waterford, United Kingdom. Her ten crew were rescued, nine by ropes from the shore and one by the Tramore Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Midge

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

|desc=The ship foundered in The Minch with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rhadama II

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Pondicherry. A crew member was reported missing.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Stever Wustrow

|flag=file:Flagge Wismar.svg Wismar

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Lønstrup, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Wismar.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vulcan

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Nevsky, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=30 October 1863 |issue=4110 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Wings of the Wind

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cochin, India with the loss of eight of her crew.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=India |date=13 November 1863 |page=10 |issue=24715 |column=A }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=23 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24723 |column=F }}

}}

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20 October

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|ship= {{ship||Blossom|British brig|2}}

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Haaks Bank, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to the Nieuw Diep.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=23 October 1863 |issue=9852 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The ship struck the Plough Rock, in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Port Dundas, Renfrewshire to London. She was refloated and taken in to North Sunderland, County Durham in a severely leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 October 1863 |issue=12230 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Ida

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at Money Point, Cape North, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Barrow in Furness, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America.

}}

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|ship=Lady Matheson

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Oranienbaum, Russia. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Saint Petersburg, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=23 October 1863 |issue=23181 }}

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|ship=Malgenio

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Kilmore, County Wexford, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Sagua La Grande, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 October 1863 |issue=4901 }} She was refloated on 14 November and towed in to Wexford in a severely damaged condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 November 1863 |issue=12253 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Mars

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: The blockade runner ran aground on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America.

}}

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21 October

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|ship=Confidence

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank at Porthdinllaen, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Aberdovey, Merionethshire to the River Dee.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 November 1863 |issue=12242 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Eriksen

|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Kastrup, Denmark. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Kronstadt, Russia. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Fratelli Flori

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship ran ashore near Berdyansk, Russia.

}}

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|ship=Halcyon

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Arkhangelsk, Russia to London. She was refloated and taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk.

}}

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|ship=Thornton

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at the mouth of the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 October 1863 |issue=12232 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Venus

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

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: Bound from Nassau, Bahamas and trying to run the Union blockade from Bermuda with a cargo of rifle muskets, cartridges, lead, dry goods, bacon, coffee, rum, and medicine and a model of a railroad, the 365-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground near the Cape Fear River on the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America with one crewman killed after taking four shell hits and beginning to take on water while under fire by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer {{USS|Nansemond|1862|6}} and the armed screw steamers {{USS|Niphon|1863|6}} and {{USS|Iron Age|1862|6}} (all {{navy|United States|1863}}). U.S. Navy sailors boarded her and tried to refloat her but were unsuccessful, so they blew up her boilers and set her afire on the morning of 22 October, wrecking her.Gaines, p. 130.

}}

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22 October

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|ship=Alexander Cooper

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War, Union blockade: While anchored by a wharf on the coast of North Carolina about {{Convert|6|nmi|km}} up New Topsail Inlet, the schooner was burned by two boats from the gunboat {{USS|Shokokon|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 113.

}}

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|ship=Briton

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Madras, India.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 November 1863 |issue=4920 }}

}}

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|ship=Marianne

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

|desc=The ship departed from the River Tyne for Barcelona, Spain. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

}}

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|ship=Mencius

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Madras.

}}

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|ship=Mist

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The steamer was boarded and burned by Confederate guerillas at her mooring at Ship Island, Mississippi, Confederate States of America.Gaines p. 70.

}}

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|ship=Oregon

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 1,004-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the North River, New York a few minutes after being almost cut in two in a collision with City of Boston ({{flag|United States|1863}}). One of Oregon′s passengers suffered minor injuries, but there were no deaths.Gaines, p. 110.[https://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/23/news/collision-river-steamers-city-boston-oregon-oregon-run-into-sunk-passengers.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0 Anonymous, "COLLISION ON THE RIVER; The Steamers City of Boston and Oregon. THE OREGON RUN INTO AND SUNK THE PASSENGERS SAVED," nytimes.com, October 23, 1863.]

}}

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|ship=Punjab

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

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Madras.

}}

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|ship=Radama II

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Pondicherry. A crew member was reported missing.

}}

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|ship=Star of the North

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Syros, Greece. She was on a voyage from Costanţa, Ottoman Empire to a British port.

}}

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|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship caught fire and was destroyed by an explosion {{convert|9|nmi|km}} south of São Miguel Island, Azores.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 November 1863 |issue=12253 |page=7 }}

}}

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23 October

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|ship=Elbe

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

|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at Hamburg.

}}

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|ship=Pasha

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to a Spanish port. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

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|ship=Phœnix

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Öland, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Vaasa, Grand Duchy of Finland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 October 1863 |page=11 |issue=24698 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Salazes

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The barque collided with John Bright ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the South China Sea. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24722 |column=F }}

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|ship=Water Lily

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New Zealand

|desc=The ketch ran ashore and was wrecked on the Sumner Spit.Ingram & Wheatley, p. 95.

}}

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24 October

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|ship=Amsterdam

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

|desc=The ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire for South Shields, County Durham. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 January 1864 |issue=12313 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Onslow

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Head of the Harbor, New York. She was on a voyage from Eastport, Maine to a port in Ireland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 November 1863 |page=5 |issue=24711 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Zelie

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

|desc=The schooner sank near Deschambault, Province of Canada. She was on a voyage from Quebec City to Montreal.

}}

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|ship=Unidentified mortar boat

|flag={{navy|United States|1863}}

|desc=The mortar boat capsized and sank in the Mississippi River at the mouth of the canal near Vicksburg, Mississippi, Confederate States of America while under tow by the steamer {{USS|Petrel|1862|6}} ({{navy|United States|1863}}).Gaines, p. 105.

}}

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25 October

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|ship=Active

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Roaring Middle Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. She was refloated and assisted in to King's Lynn.

}}

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|ship=Clara

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Saaremaa, Russia with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Kronstadt, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=28 October 1863 |issue=3188 }}

}}

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|ship=Drie Gezusters

|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}

|desc=The koff was driven ashore on Norderney, Kingdom of Hanover. She was on a voyage from Hooksiel, Kingdom of Hanover to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated and taken in to Bremerhaven in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 October 1863 |issue=12237 |page=7 }}

}}

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26 October

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|ship=Charles Martel

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 November 1863 |issue=4932 }}

}}

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|ship=Christian

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Bowmore, Islay, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Sligo. She was refloated on 28 November and subsequently resumed her voyage.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=3 December 1863 |issue=23216 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Key West No. 2

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 206-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois.Gaines, p. 98.

}}

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|ship=Mary Anne Henderson

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bowmore. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Port Charlotte, Islay.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Scotland

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, United States. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pictou, Nova Scotia, British North America to Boston, Massachusetts.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=12 November 1863 |page=7 |issue=24714 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Sir William Wallace

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Bowmore. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Port Charlotte.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tonquin

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: The ship was captured and burnt by a Confederate ship. She was on a voyage from Dupont to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=24 December 1863 |issue=4953 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=What-you-like

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}}

|desc=The lighter capsized at Lyttelton.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=18 November 1863 |issue=4922 }}

}}

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27 October

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|ship=Constance

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Cardiff, Glamorgan.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 October 1863 |issue=4907 }}

}}

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|ship=Harlequin

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

|desc=The ship was lost in the South China Sea. She was on a voyage from Shanghai to Newchang, China.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=15 January 1864 |issue=4972 }}

}}

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|ship=Semaphore

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in Bootle Bay. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=28 October 1863 |page=11 |issue=24701 |column=F }}

}}

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28 October

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|ship=Balaklava

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from North Shields, Northumberland to Woolwich, Kent. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Salem

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

|desc=The brig ran aground on the Knaphagen, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark to Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Helsingør, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Tycho

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Gävle to Grimsby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She was refloated and put in to Mollösund.

}}

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29 October

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|ship=Advance

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Holy Isle, in the Firth of Clyde. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Belfast, County Antrim.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=4 November 1863 |issue=4910 }}

}}

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|ship=Alexander

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Dublin.

}}

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|ship=Ann and Margaret

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore at Whitehaven, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Whitehaven.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Barbara

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

|desc=The barque ran aground on the North Bull, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Dublin, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=The Gale of Yesterday |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=30 October 1863 }} She was refloated on 2 November and taken in to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Better Luck Still

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Gronan, near Ayr. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Ayr.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ebenezer

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

|desc=The sloop was abandoned in the North Sea off Kirkcaldy, Fife and foundered. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Fisherrow, Lothian to Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=3 November 1863 |issue=3193 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Julius

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea {{convert|20|nmi|km}} south of the Isle of May, Fife, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the brig Louise Auguste ({{Flag|Prussia|civil}}). Julius was on a voyage from Tønsberg to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=11 November 1863 |issue=3200 }}

}}

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|ship=Lady of the Lake

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

|desc=The sloop sank Inchkeith, Fife. Her two crew were reported missing.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1863 |issue=12241 |page=7 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lemnos

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|8|nmi|km}} from Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lillies

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned in Morecambe Bay. Twenty-six people were rescued by the Fleetwood Lifeboat. The remainder of her crew were subsequently rescued by the steamship Talbot ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Lillies subsequently came ashore and sank. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay, India.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=31 October 1863 |issue=4907 }} She was refloated and taken in to the River Lune.{{Cite news |title=Presentation of a Testimonial from the Board of Trade to Captain Briggs at Morecambe |newspaper=Lancaster Gazetter |location=Lancaster |date=20 February 1864 |issue=4012 }}

}}

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|ship=Louisa

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked near Portpatrick. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Belfast.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Magneten

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Mandal to Peterhead. She was refloated and taken in to Peterhead.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the Holy Isle. She was on a voyage from Bangor, Caernarfonshire to Irvine, Ayrshire.

}}

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|ship=Mount Carmel

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Port Logan, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Troon to Passage West, County Cork.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Northern Lights

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at Pilling, Lancashire. Her four crew were rescued by the Fleetwood Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Preston, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ireland |date=14 November 1863 |page=6 |issue=24716 |column=D }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Lifeboat Services |date=14 November 1863 |page=8 |issue=24716 |column=B }}

}}

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|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The fishing smack was driven ashore at Fleetwood. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship=Sarepta

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in North Bay, Ayrshire. She was on a voyage from Sulina, Ottoman Empire to the Clyde. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Troon.

}}

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|ship=Siren

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

|desc=The brigantine ran aground on the wreck of City of Lucknow ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was refloated the next day and taken in to Belfast for repairs.

}}

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|ship=Tamworth

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

|desc=The barque foundered {{convert|5|nmi|km}} south west of Southport, Lancashire. Her seventeen crew were rescued by the Southport Lifeboat Jessie Knowles ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Tamworth was on a voyage from Liverpool to Havana, Cuba.{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=3 November 1863 |issue=5456 }}{{Cite news |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=Birmingham Daily Post |location=Birmingham |date=30 June 1864 |issue=1866 }}

}}

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|ship=Unity

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Newcastle upon Tyne. She was refloated.

}}

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|ship=Vesper

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

|desc=The ship departed from Danzig for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=19 February 1864 |issue=9869 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The sloop collided with a brig off Kingstown, County Dublin. Her crew were presumed to have been rescued by the brig before the sloop foundered.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=3 November 1863 |page=12 |issue=24706 |column=D }}

}}

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30 October

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|ship=Angelina, and
William Dargan

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

|desc=The brigantine William Dargan ran aground on a sandbank in the Solway Firth. She was then run into by the schooner Angelina and was severely damaged. She floated off and was run ashore near Beckfoot, Cumberland. Her crew survived. Angelina was severely damaged and was beached west of Beckfoot. She was abandoned by her crew.

}}

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|ship=Astrea

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

|desc=The schooner ran aground on the Horseshoe Bank, in the Bristol Channel and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Bristol, Gloucestershire.{{Cite news |title=The Late Gale - Accidents and Wrecks |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=4 November 1863 |issue=5089 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Better Luck Still

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked north of Girvan, Ayrshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Girvan.

}}

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|ship=Conqueror

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from London to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. She was refloated and towed in to Middlesbrough.

}}

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|ship=Emma

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

|desc=The schooner struck an anchor and sank in the River Thames at Woolwich, Kent, United Kingdom.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Morning Post |location=London |date=2 November 1863 |issue=28042 |page=3 }}

}}

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|ship=Enterprise

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

|desc=The sloop collided with a schooner and ran aground on the Long Nose Sandbank. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. She was refloated with assistance from the lugger Mary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Favourite

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

|desc=The sloop was run ashore and sank at Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire. All on board were rescued by the Coast Guard. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Goole, Yorkshire.{{Cite news |title=The Gale |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=6 November 1863 |issue=4111 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gardner Walker

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

|desc=The brigantine foundered in the Saltee Islands, County Wexford. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Drogheda, County Louth to Sydney, Nova Scotia. She came ashore the next day at "Brideshaven", Pembrokeshire in a derelict condition.

}}

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|ship=Gipsey

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Drogheda, County Louth. Her crew were rescued by the Drogheda Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Preston, Lancashire to Drogheda. She was refloated the next day and towed in to Drogheda.

}}

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|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked at West Tarbert, Wigtownshire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Troon, Ayrshire.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=John

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore on "Begnes Island", County Cork. She was on a voyage from Limerick to the Mumbles, Glamorgan.

}}

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|ship=Lillias

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

|desc=The ship was reported to have foundered in the Irish Sea off the coast of Lancashire. The tug Wyre ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) towed the Fleetwood Lifeboat out to her, and 26 of her 29 crew got on board the tug. Attempts by the lifeboat to take the remaining crew off were unsuccessful. The survivors were subsequently rescued by the steamship Talbot ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Lillias was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay, India. She was subsequently taken in to Glasson Dock, Lancashire in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Gale |date=5 November 1863 |page=9 |issue=24708 |column=E}}

}}

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|ship=Louisa

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

|desc=The schooner was wrecked at West Tarbert. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Belfast, County Antrim.

}}

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|ship=Marquis of Sligo

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

|desc=The schooner was run into by the brig Elizabeth ({{flag|Denmark}}) and sank at Margate, Kent. Her six crew were rescued by Elizabeth and the lugger Eclipse ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Marquis of Sligo was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Torbay, Devon.

}}

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|ship=Pioneer

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

|desc=The fishing boat sank at Pilling. Her crew were rescued.

}}

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|ship={{HMS|Prince Consort|1862|6}}

|flag={{navy|United Kingdom}}

|desc=The {{sclass|Prince Consort|ironclad}} put in to Kingstown, County Dublin in a sinking condition. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to the River Mersey.{{Cite news |title=The Gales |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=2 November 1863 |issue=5455 }}

}}

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|ship=Providence

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The barque was driven ashore in Macrihanish Bay. Her seven crew were rescued; some by ropes from the shore, others by the Campbeltown Lifeboat.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Rook

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

|desc=The ship sank in the Duddon Estuary. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Morecambe, Lancashire.

}}

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|ship=Saucy Jack

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

|desc=The smack was driven ashore at Cairnbulg, Aberdeenshire. Both crew survived. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Wick, Caithness.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=4 November 1863 |issue=6043 }}

}}

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|ship=Venturia

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Broadhaven Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Sligo, United Kingdom.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Beckfoot.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unnamed

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The schooner foundered off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of all hands.

}}

{{shipwreck list end}}

31 October

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|ship=Achilles

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

|desc=The barque was driven ashore at Abergele, Caernarfonshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dublin to St. Ubes, Portugal.

}}

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|ship=Active

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Toskea ({{flag|Norway|1844}}). Active was on a voyage from Stettin to Aberdeen.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 November 1863 |page=9 |issue=24713 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Anna

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

|desc=The ship sank on the Kjeldsand, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Fanø, Denmark.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Benledi

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

|desc=The barque capsized and sank in the River Thames at Wapping, Middlesex. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham. She was subsequently righted and beached.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=2 November 1863 |issue=9854 }}

}}

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|ship=Caroline Prince

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

|desc=The schooner was driven aghore at Agger, Denmark. She was on a voyage from London to Copenhagen, Denmark.

}}

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|ship=Elizabeth

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the North Sea {{convert|50|nmi|km}} east of Spurn Point, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by the smack Questor ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Sunderland to Maldon, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=5 November 1863 |issue=3195 }}

}}

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|ship=Esmeralda

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and damaged at Scalloway, Shetland Islands.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 November 1863 |issue=12243 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Everthorpe

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Narva, Russia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull.

}}

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|ship=Giacomo

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore in the Gulf of Palmas. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to an English port.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hero

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

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Copenhagen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The brig foundered in the Boston Deeps with the loss of all ten crew.{{Cite news |title=The Recent Storm |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=4 November 1863 |issue=12241 |page=2 }}{{Cite news |title=More Shipping Disasters |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=5 November 1863 |issue=7977 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jumna, or
Minna

|flag=File:Flagge der Hansestadt Lübeck.svg Lübeck

|desc=The brig was wrecked on Walney Island, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Lübeck.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=2 November 1863 |issue=4908}}{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 November 1863 |issue=12240 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Juno

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Norden Gronden, off the mouth of the Elbe. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to London.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=13 November 1863 |issue=9855 }}

}}

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|ship=Kate

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The schooner was lost at Brazos Pass on the coast of Texas, Confederate States of America.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=London

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

|desc=The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|6|nmi|km}} south of St Bees Head, Cumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Dublin.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the North Sea. Her five crew were rescued the next day by Enterprise ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mary

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

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by the smack Quester ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

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|ship=Mary Kerr

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in Lough Foyle at the "Warren Lighthouse". She had become a wreck by 17 November{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=20 November 1863 |issue=12255 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Mechanic

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

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Waterlily ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mechanic was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Barcelona, Spain.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 November 1863 |issue=12247 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Nelson

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

|desc=The schooner foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Dutch fishing smack. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Jersey, Channel Islands.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Providence

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The barque was wrecked at Westport, Argyllshire. Seven crew were rescued by the Campbeltown Lifeboat, the rest got ashore.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date= November 1863 |issue=247 }}

}}

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|ship=Rica

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=21 November 1863 |issue=4925 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Sarah

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

|desc=The steamship ran aground near Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was refloated.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thetis

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

|desc=The schooner was abandoned off Dover, Kent in a waterlogged condition.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 November 1863 |issue=12239 |page=7 }} She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Honfleur, Manche, France.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Thrush

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Narva. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt to Hull.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=5 November 1863 |issue=4911 }}

}}

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|ship=Union

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 227-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.Gaines, p. 172.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Vanguard

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

|desc=The ship ran aground at Melbourne, Victoria. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne. She was later refloated.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 January 1864 |issue=4968 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Walvisch

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship ran aground on a reef in the Macclesfield Channel. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Singapore, Straits Settlements. She was refloated and completed her voyage, arriving on 19 November.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 January 1864 |issue=12299 |page=7 }}

}}

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|ship=Two unidentified schooners

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The two schooners – one of which may have been Kate – foundered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas during a storm.Gaines, p. 173.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Unknown

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 November 1863 |page=9 |issue=24705 |column=F }}

}}

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Unknown date

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alberta

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken rock and was beached in Otterswick Bay. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Londonderry.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Alice Abbott

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

|desc=The barque was lost on the coast of Nova Scotia, British North America before 15 October. She was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=19 October 1863 |issue=7418 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Angeline

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Alecranes, in the Gulf of Mexico before 29 October. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to Veracruz, Mexico.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Antigua Packet

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

|desc=The brig was wrecked in the Solway Firth with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to Workington, Cumberland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Fatal Shipwreck in the Solway |date=16 October 1863 |page=11 |issue=24699 |column=D }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Argo

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

|desc=The ship struck the "Ron" and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Fredrikshavn, Denmark to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. She was taken in to Gothenburg, Sweden in a waterlogged condition on 1 November.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Balaclava

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Woolwich, Kent. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Bendeditus

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

|desc=The ship was lost near Wadsoe, Norway.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Berthe

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Cape Espichel, Portugal.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Peninsular Mails |date=20 October 1863 |page=7 |issue=24694 |column=B }}{{Cite news |title=The Peninsular Mails |newspaper=Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=20 October 1863 |issue=32603 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Caroline

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

|desc=The ship struck the breakwater at Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands and sank. She was on a voyage from Dénia, Spain to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Catharina Charlotta

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship collided with Martin Pust (Flag unknown) and sank off Rügen, Prussia.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Chanticleer

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Nova Scotia to the West Indies.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Charlotte

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Hiiumaa, Russia. She was on a voyage from Skellefteå, Sweden to Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. She was refloated and taken in to Copenhagen, Denmark, where she arrived on 8 October in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Darien

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Nickman's Ground, in the Baltic Sea whilst bound for Kronstadt, Russia.{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=Newcastle Courant |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=30 October 1863 |issue=9853 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Duke of Wellington

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

|desc=The ship collided with {{HMS|Scylla|1856|6}} ({{navy|United Kingdom}}) and foundered in the Bay of Biscay.{{Cite news |title=Latest Summary |newspaper=Reynolds's Newspaper |location=London |date=18 October 1863 |issue=688 }}

}}

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|ship=Elbe

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from "Newport" to Alicante, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Emigrant

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Strait of Belle Isle before 9 October, Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Greenock to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.{{Cite news |title=Shipping |newspaper=Leeds Mercury |location=Leeds |date=22 October 1863 |issue=7965 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Equity

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

|desc=The ship departed from London for North Shields, Northumberland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all ten crew.{{Cite news |title=Dundee Shipping |newspaper=Dundee Courier |location=Dundee |date=23 November 1863 |issue=3210 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Fox

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 102-ton steamer burned on Lake Erie near Newport, Michigan.Gaines, p. 55.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederica Ernestine

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

|desc=The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 22 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Frederick Brunning

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 8 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=14 November 1863 |issue=4919 }}

}}

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|ship=Fruiterer

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

|desc=The barque collided with Viscount Canning ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the South China Sea between 18 and 26 October. Her crew were rescued by Viscount Canning.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24734 |column=C }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from North Sunderland, County Durham to Quebec City. She was refloated and completed her voyage in a severely leaky condition, arriving at Quebec City on 18 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=George Prescott

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Falmouth, Jamaica and was scuttled before 14 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Gorilla

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Eliza Wilson ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{Cite news |title=Pier Head, Dublin |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |location=Dublin |date=13 October 1863 }} Gorilla was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hannibal

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=The 497-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River {{convert|5|nmi|km}} above Donaldsonville, Louisiana, Confederate States of America.Gaines, p. 66.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Harriet

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

|desc=The full-rigged ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Hebe

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

|desc=The ship was run down in the Kattegat. She was on a voyage from Sundsvall, Sweden to Dublin. She was towed in to Gothenburg, Sweden in a waterlogged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Irene

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

|desc=The ship collided with Marquis of Lorne ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the Bristol Channel. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Liverpool. She put in to Dale, Pembrokeshire in a sinking condition. She was towed in to Milford Haven, where she collided with Boyne ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Industry

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

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Gävle, Sweden to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=17 October 1863 |issue=4894 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Istamboul

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Diamond Harbour, India before 15 October. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Singapore, Straits Settlements.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Jane

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Province of Canada. Her crew were rescued.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Julie

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

|desc=The ship struck a sunken rock and was holed. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Bo'ness, Lothian. She was taken in to Rasvåg, Norway in a waterlogged condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Juno

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on "Skallengen" before 10 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lancaster

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

|desc=The ship ran aground off Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to New York, United States.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Lizzie L. Haden

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

|desc=The ship was lost near Rangoon, Burma before 29 October. She was on a voyage from Penang, Malaya to Rangoon.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maria

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Magdalen Islands, British North America. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Province of Canada to London.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marietta

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Algeciras, Spain. She was on a voyage from Taganrog, Russia to Odesa and Queenstown, County Cork.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=23 October 1863 |issue=4900 }} She was consequently condemned.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 November 1863 |issue=12256 |page=7 }}

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{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Marryat

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 31 October.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Maylath

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Ancona, Papal States. She was refloated and taken in to Ancona in a leaky condition.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Mencula

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Madras, India.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Middleton

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

|desc=The ship departed from Sulina, Ottoman Empire in mid-October. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=2 December 1863 |page=12 |issue=24731 |column=E }}

}}

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|ship=Montebello

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

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Ragged Island, Bahamas.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Noel Raphael

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Ingoldmells, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to Nantes, Loire-Inférieure. She was refloated on 13 October with the assistance of the tug Robert Burns ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and towed in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=13 October 1863 |issue=4108 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship ran aground at Longhope, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Greenland to Copenhagen.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Ocean Nymph

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

|desc=The barque was holed by ice in Hudson Bay. She was on a voyage from London to Hudson Bay. She put in to St. John's, Newfoundland, British North America in a leaky condition.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=10 November 1863 |issue=4915 }}

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Orion

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Drogheda, County Louth. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Drogheda.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pisco

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at Cienfuegos, Cuba. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to Havana.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=4 November 1863 |page=10 |issue=24707 |column=F }}

}}

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|ship=Plantagenet

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

|desc=The ship was beached at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Alicante, Spain.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Pride

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Panmure Island, Prince Edward Island. She was on a voyage from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island to Liverpool.

}}

{{shipwreck list item

|ship=Princess Royal

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Grenadine Islands before 14 October. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Trinidad.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=16 October 1863 |issue=4893 }}

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|ship=Richard Pearce

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

|desc=The ship foundered in the English Channel {{convert|25|nmi|km}} off the coast of Devon. All eight people on board survived.{{Cite news |title=Sidmouth |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post |location=Exeter |date=21 October 1863 |issue=5087 }}

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|ship=Sceptre

|flag=22px Rostock

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Helsingør, Denmark.

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|ship=Sif

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

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Norway before 14 October. She was refloated and taken in to Langesund.

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|ship=Smoker

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Tampico, Mexico before 29 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=30 October 1863 |issue=4906 }}

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|ship=Starling

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

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Holywell, Flintshire. She was on a voyage from Rye, Sussex to Holywell.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury |location=Liverpool |date=7 October 1863 |issue=4886 }}

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|ship=Stirling Castle

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

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool. She had been refloated by 9 October.

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|ship=Susannah

|flag={{flag|Chile}}

|desc=The full-rigged ship was wrecked near Talcahuano before 14 October.

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|ship=Swallow

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

|desc=The steamship was driven ashore at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire. She was refloated on 22 October and resumed her voyage.

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|ship=Tottleben

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

|desc=The barque was lost in the Atlantic Ocean.

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|ship={{PS|Vanguard|1841|2}}

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

|desc=The paddle tug sank in The Narrows. She was later refloated and beached at North Shields. Subsequently scrapped.{{cite web |url=http://www.tynetugs.co.uk/vanguard1841.html |title=Vanguard |publisher=Tyne Tugs |access-date=26 April 2020}}

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|ship=Venez

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

|desc=The ship was lost on a voyage from Sundsvall to London.

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|ship=Water Witch

|flag={{flag|United States|1863}}

|desc=Carrying a mixed cargo, the 369-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Huron less than {{convert|2|nmi|km}} off Oscoda, Michigan, ({{coord|44|25|N|83|19|W|name=Water Witch}}).Gaines, p. 56.

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|ship=Unidentified schooners and boats

|flag={{flag|Confederate States of America|1863}}

|desc=American Civil War: A Union expedition destroyed 150 schooners and boats in Mathews County, Virginia, between 4 and 9 October.Gaines, p. 193.

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References

=Notes=

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=Bibliography=

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

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