# List of shipwrecks in June 1865

The list of shipwrecks in June 1865 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1865.

## 1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alemania | United Kingdom | The steamship was wrecked in the Magdalena River. |
| Anna Andrina | Flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore at Narva, Russia. Her crew were rescued. |
| Carron | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked near Gothenburg, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to a Baltic port. |
| Cornelia Berendina | Netherlands | The schooner was wrecked on Neckman's Ground, in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Crinoline | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Pärnu, Russia. |
| Edla | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked at Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. |
| Elizabeth Machtelina | Flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore on Læsø, Denmark. |
| Elizabeth Sophia | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Pärnu. |
| Fortuna | Flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore at Narva. Her crew were rescued. |
| Grace Darling | New Zealand | The schooner grounded on a rocky reef at the mouth of Nelson Harbour in a heavy swell. The ship's whole port side was heavily damaged, and passengers and crew were taken off by a pilot boat. |
| Gratitude | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Cronstadt. |
| Great Britain | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Sunderland, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to Cronstadt, Russia. |
| Industrie | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Pärnu. |
| Irene | Denmark | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Læsø. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Korsør |
| Joseph | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at the Dagerort Lighthouse, Russia. Her crew were rescued by Minerva ( United Kingdom). Joseph was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Kentucky | United States | Carrying 800 paroled former Confederate soldiers, the 375-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South between its mouth and Alexandria, Louisiana, the ship′s boiler exploding as she sank. Thirty of the former Confederate soldiers died. |
| Leonore | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Torekov, Sweden. |
| Lochrimmer | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Narva. Her crew were rescued. |
| Ludwig Maria | Norway | The brig was driven ashore at Narva with the loss of all hands. |
| Mary Holland | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Pärnu. |
| Minerva | Flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore at Narva. Her crew were rescued. |
| Mystery | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Torekov. She was on a voyage from Königsberg, Prussia to Montrose, Forfarshire. |
| Oscar | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Lysekil, Sweden with the loss of all but two of her crew. |
| Paradies | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Pärnu. |
| Praesto | flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore on Læsø. |
| Queen | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked in the Kattegat near Gothenburg with the loss of all eight crew. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Cronstadt. |
| Recovery | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at "Backstadt", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields to a Baltic port. |
| Royal Standard | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on Læsø, Denmark and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Cronstadt, Russia. |
| Swan | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Helsinki. |

## 2 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| George | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent and sank. A search by the Ramsgate Lifeboat and by the North Deal Lifeboat Vankook ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) failed to find any trace of her crew. |
| Providence | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Lundy Island, Devon. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and found to be severely leaky. |

## 3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Tucker | United Kingdom | The brig foundered 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) off Fredrikshavn, Denmark. |

## 4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emile | Belgium | The fishing vessel sprang a leak and sank in the North Sea 16 nautical miles (30 km) east of St. Abbs Head, Berwickshire, United Kingdom. Her crew survived. |
| Jane Williams | New Zealand | The cutter went aground on the bar at the mouth of the Hokitika River. She lost her rudder and was driven onto the bar by a heavy sea. |

## 5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Her Majesty | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Macrafulla Lumps, in the Hooghly River and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Calcutta, India. |

## 6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eclipse | New South Wales | The 97-ton schooner went aground on a reef near New Plymouth in a northerly gale. Passengers and crew were safely rescued. |
| Hibernia | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Liverpool. She was refloated. |
| Unidentified torpedo boat | Confederate States Navy | The David-type torpedo boat was lost off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm while being transported by the sidewheel gunboat USS Mingoe ( United States Navy). |

## 7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Francis I | France | The brig ran aground on the Longsand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées. |

## 8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Admiral Du Pont | United States | En route from New York to Fort Monroe, Virginia, with a cargo of United States Government supplies, the 750-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape May, New Jersey, with the loss of fifteen to twenty crew after colliding with Stadacona ( United Kingdom). |
| Courier | France | The ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Christiania, Norway to Dunkerque, Nord. |
| Lizzie | United Kingdom | The steamship foundered off in the Strait of Florida off Brange Cave. Her crew took to three boats. Those in one of the boats were rescued by a Spanish brig, the rest were rescued by the barque Leopoldine Fraude ( Prussia). Lizzie was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to London. |
| Stadacona | United Kingdom | The ship collided with Admiral Du Pont ( United States and was beached on "Athentucket Island", New Jersey. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. |
| Steam Launch No. 3 | United States | The steam launch was wrecked off the coast of South Carolina on the Saint Helena Shoals. |

## 10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Duchess | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground in the Dardanelles. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated on 12 June and taken in to Constantinople. |

## 11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Catherine | United Kingdom | The sloop was abandoned in the Irish Sea. Her four crew were rescued by a tug and the Rhyl Lifeboat. |
| Express | United States | During a voyage from Parkersburg, West Virginia, to Louisville, Kentucky, with the 32nd Illinois Infantry Regiment ( Union Army) on board, the 224-ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near Manchester, Ohio. She later was refloated and returned to service. |
| ARP Jejuy | Paraguayan Navy | Jejuy The steamship Paraguayan War, Battle of Riachuelo: The steamship was rammed by Amazonas Imperial Brazilian Navy) and sank in the Paraná River. |
| Jequitinhonha | Imperial Brazilian Navy | Paraguayan War, Battle of Riachuelo: The corvette ran aground in the Paraná river. She was abandoned the next day and captured by the Paraguayans. |
| ARP Marquês de Olinda | Paraguayan Navy | Paraguayan War, Battle of Riachuelo: The steamship ran aground in the Paraná river and was abandoned by her crew. |
| ARP Salto | Paraguayan Navy | Paraguayan War, Battle of Riachuelo: The steamship was sunk in the Paraná River by Amazonas ( Imperial Brazilian Navy). |
| West Kent | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Alnmouth, Northumberland to the River Thames. |

## 12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bob Mills | United States | The 34-ton screw steamer exploded, probably on Lake Erie. |
| Lady Dennison | New Zealand | The brig went ashore at the entrance to the Whanganui River when her towline parted while she was being guided over the river's sandbar. |

## 13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Echo | France | The mail steamship was wrecked on a rock off Romania Point, the south-eastern tip of the Malay Peninsula; crew and some cargo saved. She was on a voyage from Singapore to Saigon. |
| Juno | New Zealand | The 50-ton ketch was wrecked at Hokitika, where she had travelled from Lyttelton. |

## 14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alabama | United States | The 337-ton whaling barque went aground at Port Hutt in New Zealand's Chatham Islands. She had sheltered in the port to escape a violent southerly storm, but dragged her anchor. Despite cutting way masts to reduce danger to the ship, she was repeatedly dashed into rocks and was extensively holed. All hands were saved. |

## 15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edward F. Dix | United States | The 296-ton sidewheel paddle steamer struck the wreck of the ironclad ram USS Eastport ( United States Navy) in the Red River of the South in Louisiana and sank on top of the wreck. |
| Kate Blackstone, or Kate Blackiston | United States | Carrying a cargo of general merchandise, the schooner sank in the Sacramento River at the foot of I Street in Sacramento, California, with the loss of two crewmen. One crewman survived. |
| Orizaba | United States | The 630-bulk ton full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Trinity River at Liberty, Texas. |

## 16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Admiral Kassakewitch | Russia | The ship ran aground on the Wostock Reef, in Castries Bay and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Nicolaieff. |
| Jane | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked off Nuevitas, Captaincy General of Cuba. She was on a voyage from Havana to Manzanilla, Cuba. |

## 17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Louis Leonide | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Goatzacoalcos River, Mexico. |

## 18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eastern Province | Cape Colony | The steamship was wrecked 18 nautical miles (33 km) from Cape L'Agulhas. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Algoa Bay to Table Bay. |

## 19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Derwent | United Kingdom | The steamship was wrecked on Gray Island, South Uist, Outer Hebrides. Her ten crew survived. |
| Emily Reinhold | United Kingdom | The ship departed from Monte Video, Uruguay for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |
| M. Fannie Stafford | United States | The 42-ton screw steamer was wrecked by an explosion at Chicago, Illinois. |

## 20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emma | United States | The 189-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Shreveport, Louisiana. |
| Fleetwood | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked off Dassen Island. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Mauritius. |
| James Dunn | United Kingdom | The ship collided with Syrian ( United Kingdom) and foundered in the Bristol Channel 20 nautical miles (37 km) south west of Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued by Syrian. |
| Kentucky | United States | The steamboat ran aground in the Red River of the South near Shreveport, on or about 20 June while carrying a large number of Confederate soldiers. Not believed to be in danger, she was not evacuated. She sank that night with the loss of approximately 200 lives. Her wreck was rediscovered in 1994. |

## 21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Pacific | Victoria | The schooner was wrecked at the mouth of the Manning River. Her crew were rescued. |

## 22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Euphrates | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 364-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea near 62°23′N 179°46′E﻿ / ﻿62.383°N 179.767°E﻿ / 62.383; 179.767﻿ (Euphrates) by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Jireh Swift | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 428-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Leesburg | United States | The steamer, partially loaded with a cargo of cotton, struck a snag and sank with the loss of two lives in the Savannah River in Georgia. |
| Sophia Thornton | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 426-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea at 62°40′N 178°50′W﻿ / ﻿62.667°N 178.833°W﻿ / 62.667; -178.833﻿ (Sophia Thornton) by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| William Thompson | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 495-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea northeast of Cape Narrows by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |

## 23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Susan & Abigail | United States | American Civil War: The 159-ton brig was captured and burned in the Bering Sea at 62°48′N 179°04′W﻿ / ﻿62.800°N 179.067°W﻿ / 62.800; -179.067﻿ (Susan & Abigail) by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |

## 24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hamburg | Hamburg | The steamship was driven ashore at Rosetta, Egypt. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Port Said, Egypt. |

## 25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Arrow | New South Wales | The schooner was wrecked on King's Island, Queensland. She was on a voyage from Mauritius to Sydney. |
| General Williams | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 419-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea near St. Lawrence Island by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Ruby | New Zealand | The 86-ton steamer was thrown onto the bar at the mouth of the Hokitika River in a heavy swell and was wrecked. Some contemporary reports suggest that she may have been refloated. |

## 26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Behera | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Alexandria, Egypt. She was refloated. |
| Catherine | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 384- or 385-ton bark, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Gipsy, or Gipsey | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 360-ton bark, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Gratitude | United States | The 337-ton whaling barque was stove in by ice and lost 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Cape Lisburne, Russian America. |
| Isabella | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 315-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Nimrod | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 340-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| William C. Nye | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 389-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| William Nelson | United States | The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean (41°20′N 42°20′W﻿ / ﻿41.333°N 42.333°W﻿ / 41.333; -42.333) with the loss of about 400 of the 478 people on board. Around 80 survivors were rescued by the steamship Lafayette, by Mercury (both France), and by the barque Ilmari ( Russia). William Nelson was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to New York. |

## 27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Esther | New Zealand | The 76-ton schooner was wrecked at Hokitika when she struck the bar at the mouth of the Hokitika River, where she had travelled from Sydney. |
| Sir Francis Drake | United Kingdom | The 188-ton three-masted schooner was wrecked at Hokitika when she struck the bar at the mouth of the Hokitika River. She was beached and broke up. |

## 28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brunswick | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 295-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Congress | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 376-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Covington | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 350-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Favorite | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 295-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Hillman | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Illinois | United States | The 530-ton screw steamer sank in Lake Erie after colliding with Dean Richmond (Flag unknown) near Point Pelee, Ontario. |
| Isaac Howland | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 399-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| J. P. Wheeler | United States | The ship was driven ashore in the James River. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was refloated on 1 July. |
| Martha | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 360-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Nassau | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 408-ton full-rigged ship, was captured and burned in the Bering Strait by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |
| Olive | United States | The 220-ton sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag in the Ohio River at Golconda, Illinois, and sank with the loss of seven lives. |
| Waverley | United States | American Civil War: The whaler, a 327-ton barque, was captured and burned in the Bering Sea near the Diomede Islands by the merchant raider CSS Shenandoah ( Confederate States Navy). |

## 29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Chanticleer | United Kingdom | The steamship foundered in the South China Sea in a typhoon with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Foochow, China. |
| Coniston | United Kingdom | The barque foundered in the South China Sea in a typhoon with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Swatow, China. |
| Corea | United Kingdom | The steamship foundered in the South China Sea in a typhoon with the loss of all 103 people on board. She was on a voyage from Hong Kong to Foochow. |
| Nubia | Grand Duchy of Oldenburg | The barque was captured by pirates and burnt in the South China Sea off Hainan, China. Her crew were rescued by the barque Atalanta ( Hamburg). |
| Robert and Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the Baltic Sea off Hogland, Russia. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Cronstadt, Russia. |

## 30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edith | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was driven in to the full-rigged ship Hollandia ( Netherlands) and the barque Oceanica ( United Kingdom) and was severely damaged at Hong Kong. |
| Emma Jane | United Kingdom | The brig sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Alfred ( Guernsey). Emma Jane was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Genoa, Italy. |
| Johnson | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked at Bude, Cornwall. Her four crew were rescued by the Bude Lifeboat. |
| Richard | United Kingdom | The barque was driven ashore at Kowloon, China. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Benjamin Delano | United States | Carrying a cargo of forage, the brig was driven ashore at Galveston, Texas, during a three-day gale. |
| USS Bloomer | United States Navy | The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in East Pass off Santa Rosa Island, Florida. She was raised and repaired. |
| Echo No. 2 | United States | Carrying 300 soldiers of the 13th and 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Regiments, the sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, in late June after striking the prow of the screw sloop-of-war USS Oneida ( United States Navy). The regiments lost rations and a combined 10 horses and 13 mules. The soldiers blamed the pilot guiding Echo No. 2 for the accident and beat him. |
| Frederick August | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground near Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. |
| Goldfinder | Siam | The barque foundered in the South China Sea. |
| Mischief | United Kingdom | The barque was lost off Amoy, China before 15 June. |
| Pine Hill | United States | The sternwheel paddle steamer struck a snag and sank in the Red River of the South at Tucker's Bar in Louisiana. |
| Recovery | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the North Sea. She came ashore at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and was wrecked. |
| Robert Finnie | United Kingdom | The ship was lost in the White Sea. Her crew were rescued. |
| Stettin | Stettin | The steamship was driven ashore near Stettin. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom to Stettin. |