List of shipwrecks in May 1865
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| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fanny Taylor |  United Kingdom |
The schooner collided with Harmonides ( United Kingdom) and sank off South Stack, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued.[1] |
| Mary Jane | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked. A message in a bottle washed up at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 7 May 1867 giving the news.[2] |
| Zoe | United Kingdom |
The ship was taken in to the Isles of Scilly in a derelict condition. She was on a voyage from "Camillos" to Antwerp, Belgium.[3] |
2 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Æolus | United Kingdom |
The whaler was run ashore at West Horn Point, Iceland. Her 60 crew survived. She was on a voyage from Greenland to Hull, Yorkshire.[4][5] |
| John Munro | United Kingdom |
The ship ran aground near Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Southampton, Hampshire.[6] |
3 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Nuovo |  Spain |
The ship was wrecked on the Newgate Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued She was on a voyage from Limerick to Cardiff, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[3] |
| Wide-Awake | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked on Cape North, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.[7][8] |
4 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Success | Flag unknown | The 287-ton barque was wrecked south of Nelson, New Zealand while en route from Newcastle, New South Wales to Wellington, New Zealand.[9] |
5 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Gibraltar |  Royal Navy |
The Duncan-class ship of the line was driven ashore in the Mediterranean Sea. Subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.[10] |
| Golden Rule |  United States |
The 2,267-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was stranded on Roncador Reef in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Nicaragua with 635 passengers on board. They were rescued a week later.[11] |
| Pomerania |  Stralsund |
The steamship was driven ashore near Malmö, Sweden. She was on a voyage from Malmö to Stralsund.[12] |
6 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hypatia | United Kingdom |
The ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was refloated.[13] |
| Kennington | United Kingdom |
The full-rigged ship ran aground in the Hooghly River. She was refloated.[13] |
7 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Maple Leaf | United Kingdom |
The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. She was refloated.[6] |
| Sylph | United States |
The steamer ran ashore on the Savannah River in Georgia upstream of Fort Pulaski.[14] |
| Three Sisters | United Kingdom |
The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Lemvig, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Memel, Prussia.[6][15] |
8 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| USS Glasgow | United States Navy |
The sidewheel gunboat struck a submerged obstruction and sank in Mobile Bay off Mobile, Alabama. She was refloated on 19 June 1865 and returned to service on 1 July 1866.[16] |
| Hattie | United Kingdom |
The 284-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost in the Atlantic Ocean.[17] |
| Hemisphere Borealis | United Kingdom |
The ship sprang a leak and was beached in the Aran Islands, County Galway. She was on a voyage from Newport Pratt, County Mayo to Penarth, Glamorgan. She was refloated on 13 May and take in to Galway for repairs.[18] |
| May | United Kingdom |
The 97-ton schooner, carrying china clay from Par, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire, struck the Runnel Stone and sank. Her crew survived.[16][12] She subsequently refloated and came ashore at Cape Cornwall, Cornwall.[19] |
9 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Inez Lee | United Kingdom |
The ship ran aground on the West Rocks, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.[12] |
| Rubens | United Kingdom |
The full-rigged ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Salt River. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Cape Town, Cape Colony.[20][21] |
10 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Dahlia | United Kingdom |
The barque ran aground on the Pickles Reef. She was on a voyage from Savannah-la-Mar, Jamaica to London. She was a total loss.[22] |
| Galeed | United Kingdom |
The ship struck the Runnel Stone and sank.[12] |
| Maria Soames | United Kingdom |
The barque was wrecked at Whitby, Yorkshire. Her nineteen crew were rescued by the Whitby Lifeboat.[23] She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Alexandria, Egypt.[24] |
| Tonderghie | United Kingdom |
The wherry, carrying quicklime, struck a rock in Whithorn Bay, caught fire and sank. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to the Isle of Whithorn, Lancashire.[25] |
12 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Abeona or Adeona |  New South Wales |
The schooner grounded on a spit at the mouth of New Zealand's Whanganui River and could not be refloated.[26] |
| Fiery Star | United Kingdom |
The disabled clipper sank in the Pacific Ocean about 25 nautical miles (46 km) off the coast of New Zealand in the vicinity of 37°05′S 175°42′E / 37.083°S 175.700°E, due to damage caused by a fire on board that had been discovered on 19 April during a storm and had never been put out. The barque Dauntless (Flag unknown) rescued the eighteen people remaining aboard Fiery Star. Another 87 people who had abandoned Fiery Star in four lifeboats on 20 April disappeared without trace. |
| Malakoff | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued by a fishing boat. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia.[27] |
| Murray | South Australia |
The pilot boat, a schooner was driven ashore in Wallaroo Bay. She was consequently condemned.[28] |
| Oak | New Zealand |
The 120-ton brigantine was the first of several ships wrecked during a three-day gale at Hokitika. She arrived at the town from Invercargill, but was caught by a fierce current and driven ashore, where she was pummeled by a storm surge. All passengers and crew survived, but several of the livestock that were being transported were lost.[29] |
13 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| E. O. Stanard | United States |
Carrying stores for an expedition by Brigadier General Alfred Sully ( Union Army), the 281-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Missouri River at De Soto Bend.[30] |
14 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon | United States |
The lumber schooner ran aground on the coast of California at the entrance to San Francisco Bay at Cliff House.[31] |
| Gannet | New Zealand |
The 27-top cutter (or sloop), carrying timber from Picton was driven ashore by a heavy sea during a gale at Hokitika.[32] |
| Glasgow | New Zealand |
The 47-ton schooner was buffeted by a heavy sea during a gale, losing her rudder and anchor cable. She was carried onto a beach to the south of the mouth of the Hokitika River.[33] |
15 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Minnehaha | United States |
The 531-ton sdewheel paddle steamer burned at New Orleans, Louisiana.[34] |
| Unnamed |  France |
The ship was wrecked on Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to the River Plate.[35] |
16 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Choice | Victoria |
The 162-ton brigantine was wrecked at New Plymouth, New Zealand, when she dragged her anchors and went onshore during a heavy gale.[36] |
| Ellen Jenkins, or Helen Jenkinson |
United Kingdom |
The brigantine foundered 15 nautical miles (28 km) west of Bardsey Island, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium.[37][19] |
| Mary | United Kingdom |
The brigantine foundered off Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the River Duddon to Briton Ferry, Glamorgan.[38][19] |
| Unnamed |  Denmark |
The East Indiaman capsized and sank at South Shields, County Durham, United Kingdom.[19] |
17 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alacrity | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Alma | United Kingdom |
The ship was severely damaged in Table Bay.[40] |
| Athens | United Kingdom |
The steamship was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Colony with the loss of 28 of her 45 crew. She was on a voyage from Cape Town, Cape Colony to Mauritius.[41][42][39] |
| Benjamin Miller | United Kingdom |
The cutter was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Brabner | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Carstens | United Kingdom |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| City of Peterborough | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay with the loss of all seventeen people on board.[39][43] |
| Closter | Denmark |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Dane | Cape Colony |
The steamship was severely damaged in Table Bay.[44][42] |
| Dart | United Kingdom |
The ship was driven ashore 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) south of Bridlington, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London.[45] |
| Galatea | United Kingdom |
The brig was driven ashore and damaged in Table Bay. She was refloated.[39] |
| Gem | United Kingdom |
The cutter was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Giles | United Kingdom |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Glendenny | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Isabel | United Kingdom |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Jane | United Kingdom |
The brig was driven ashore and damaged in Table Bay. She was refloated.[39] |
| Kehrwieder | Flag unknown | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Maria Johanna |  Netherlands |
The brig was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] |
| Primauguet |  French Navy |
The Phlégéton-class corvette was driven ashore in Simon's Bay. She was refloated with assistance from HMS Valorous ( Royal Navy).[39][46] |
| Royal Arthur | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore and wrecked in Table Bay.[39] She was on a voyage from Mauritius to London.[43] |
| Royal Minstrel | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore in Table Bay. She was refloated.[39] |
| Rutland | United Kingdom |
The ship was damaged by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire.[45] |
| Star of the West | United Kingdom |
The barque was driven ashore in Table Bay. She was refloated.[39] |
| Tanjore | France |
The full-rigged ship was severely damaged by fire at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.[47] |
18 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Palinurus | New Zealand |
The coal-laden ketch was wrecked at Sumner when the wind dropped suddenly while she was crossing a sandbar.[36] |
19 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Burd Levi | United States |
The 205-ton sternwheel paddle steamer exploded on the Ohio River at West Franklin, Indiana, killing five people.[48] |
| Childers | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked at Foochow, China.[49] |
| Ocean Queen | United Kingdom |
The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 14 nautical miles (26 km) west north west of the Isles of Scilly. Her eighteen crew were rescued by the barque Hygeia ( United Kingdom). Ocean Queen was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.[50][51][47][52] |
| Wanderer | United Kingdom |
The ship was destroyed by fire at Mogador, Morocco.[53] |
20 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| City of Dunedin | New Zealand |
The 327-ton paddle steamer left Wellington for Nelson on 20 May. Cook Strait at the time had a heavy swell, and it is thought she may have been cast onto rocks near Cape Terawhiti. Wreckage was found later in the month. Approximately 40 crew and passengers were lost.[54] |
| Ellora | United Kingdom |
The ship sank at Bombay, India. She was on a voyage from Bombay to Liverpool, Lancashire.[55] |
| Wakool | New Zealand |
The 46-ton steamer was driven ashore by a gale north of the mouth of the Hokitika River, and as a result broke amidships.[32] |
21 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ellen | United Kingdom |
The schooner ran aground on the Droogden, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Neustadt in Holstein, Duchy of Holstein to Leith, Lothian.[15] |
| Illustrious | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked on St, Paul Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Algiers, Algeria to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America.[56] |
| Julia | United States |
Carrying a cargo of corn for an expedition by Brigadier General Alfred Sully, the steamer sank in the Missouri River about 10 nautical miles (19 km) downstream of Sioux City, Iowa.[57] |
| Orion | United Kingdom |
The barque sprang a leak and foundered 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north west of the Wolf Rock, Cornwall. Her eleven crew were rescued by the schooner Cameleon ( United Kingdom). Orion was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Veracruz, Mexico.[58][59] |
22 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ellora | United Kingdom |
The ship foundered off Bombay, India. Her crew were rescued.[58] |
23 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Frederika |  Sweden |
The ship departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom for Norrköpng. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[60] |
24 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alliance | New Zealand |
The 73-ton schooner was beached to the north of the mouth of the Waikato River when her sails were blown to shreds by a heavy gale.[61] |
| Delaware | United States |
The 616- or 650-ton sidewheel paddle steamer was lost on the St. Johns River on the coast of Florida inside St. Johns Bar.[62] |
| Denbigh | United Kingdom |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Cornubia and USS Fort Jackson and the armed screw steamer USS Princess Royal (all United States Navy) while trying to run the Union blockade during a voyage from Havana, Cuba, to Galveston, Texas, the 250-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran aground on the coast of Texas on Bird Key Spit near Bolivar Point. United States Navy warships shelled and wrecked her. A boarding party from the gunboat USS Kennebec and the sloop-of-war USS Seminole (both United States Navy) burned her on 25 May, making her the last blockade runner destroyed during the American Civil War.[63] |
| Euphemia | United Kingdom |
The schooner ran aground and sank in the River Ouse. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Lewes, Sussex.[64] |
| George Olympus | United Kingdom |
The steamship sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 70 nautical miles (130 km) east south east of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to London.[56] |
| Lecompt |  Confederate States of America |
American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Cornubia ( United States Navy), the schooner ran aground on the coast of Texas at Bird Key Spit in Galveston Bay. She was set afire by Union forces and became a wreck on Bolivar Point Beach.[65][66] |
25 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Colonel Cowles | United States |
American Civil War: The full-rigged ship was destroyed in port at Mobile, Alabama, when a nearby captured Confederate warehouse filled with ammunition exploded.[67] |
| Fusilier | United Kingdom |
The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Bluff Rocks, on the coast of the Colony of Natal with the loss of twenty lives. She was on a voyage from London to Melbourne, Victoria.[68] |
| HMS Herring | Royal Navy |
The Albacore-class gunboat ran aground at Mickery Island, in the Firth of Forth. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to North Queensferry, Fife.[69] She was later refloated, but was consequently broken up at Sheerness, Kent.[70] |
| Kate Dale | United States |
American Civil War: The 428-bulk ton sidewheel paddle steamer was set afire and destroyed in port at Mobile, when a nearby captured Confederate warehouse filled with ammunition exploded.[71] |
| Nemesis | United Kingdom |
The steamship ran aground on the Rinfuhah Shoal.[72] |
26 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Esmeralda |  Argentina |
The steamship ran aground at San Fernando de Buena Vista. She was on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Rosario.[73] |
| CSS Viper |  Confederate States Navy |
American Civil War: Captured by Union Army forces in April, the torpedo boat was under tow from Appalachicola, Florida, to Key West, Florida, by the screw steamer USS Yucca ( United States Navy) when she sprang a leak during a storm and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. A United States Navy prize crew aboard her was removed safely before she sank.[74] |
| Warrior | United Kingdom |
The ship collided with the barque Tropique ( France) and sank in the English Channel off The Lizard, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Tropique. Warrior was on a voyage from Naguabo, Puerto Rico to London.[50][75][15] |
| Unnamed |  Kingdom of Hanover |
The schooner was wrecked on Inchkeith, Fife, United Kingdom.[76] |
28 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Abigail | United States |
American Civil War: The whaler, a barque, was burned near the Shantar Islands in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk at 57°07′N 153°01′E / 57.117°N 153.017°E by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). Shenandoah had captured Abigail on 27 May.[77][78][79] |
| Anne | United Kingdom |
The ship collided with an Austrian vessel and in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape de Gatt, Spain. She consequently foundered on the next day.[80] |
| Pilot | New Zealand |
The cutter broke up on a sandspit at the mouth of West Wanganui Inlet (possibly Whanganui Inlet on the South Island's West Coast).[61] |
| Sir R. Abercrombie | United Kingdom |
The ship was abandoned off the Agulpha Bank, in the Indian Ocean. She was on a voyage from Madras, India to London.[81] |
| Sybil | United Kingdom |
The ship departed from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire for Riga, Russia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[82] |
29 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Annie | United Kingdom |
The barque collided with another vessel and sank in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued.[22] |
| Governor Troup | United States |
Carrying over 200 passenger and crew and a cargo of cotton, the 155-ton sidewheel paddle steamer ran into the South Carolina bank of the Savannah River below Augusta, Georgia, killing 40 people.[83] |
| Leveret | United Kingdom |
The ship was driven ashore at Hook of Holland, South Holland, Netherlands. She had been refloated by 8 June.[22] |
| Robert and Lizzie | United Kingdom |
The ship sank off Falster, Denmark. Her crew survived.[53] |
30 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Agnes and Mary | United Kingdom |
The smack was driven ashore at Groomsport, County Down.[84] |
| Inca | France |
The brig was wrecked on Tinos, Greece. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône to Taganrog, Russia.[21] |
| Johannes Hincke | Sweden |
The ship was driven ashore north of Marstrand.[85] |
| Wave | United Kingdom |
The yacht was wrecked at Hartlepool, County Durham. Her five crew were rescued.[22] |
