# List of shipwrecks in March 1865

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

## 1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Atalanta | United Kingdom | The dredger was run into by the steamship Zealous ( United Kingdom) and sank at Harwich, Essex. Her crew were rescued. |
| USS Harvest Moon | United States Navy | The wreck of USS Harvest Moon, ca. 1963American Civil War: The sidewheel gunboat, serving as the flagship of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, sank with the loss of one life five minutes after striking a Confederate mine in the Swash Channel in Winyah Bay in South Carolina. Her survivors, including Dahlgren, were rescued by the gunboat USS Nipsic ( United States Navy). After being stripped, her wreck was abandoned on 20 or 21 April. |
| Nugget | New Zealand | The schooner ran aground and sank in the Grey River. |
| Ocean | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from London to Stirling. |
| Providence | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham Findhorn, Moray. She was refloated and sailed for Aberdeen. |
| Saucy Lass | United Kingdom | The smack ran aground off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued. She was taken in to Great Yarmouth in a derelict condition. |

## 2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anne | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Ipswich, Suffolk to Inverness. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Elizabeth and Hannah | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked near Dunbar, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She was inwards for Dunbar in tow from Leith when the towrope broke. |
| Exmouth | United Kingdom | The schooner foundered 12 nautical miles (22 km) north of the North Foreland, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Swansea, Glamorgan. |
| James Watson | United States | Carrying 86 Union Army soldiers and cargo, the 200-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Island Number 76 between Bolivar County, Mississippi, and Desha County, Arkansas, with the loss of 35 lives. |
| Jemmy | France | The schooner ran aground on the Amford Bank. She consequently put in to Honfleur, Manche in a severely leaky condition. |
| Nettie Hartupee | United States | The 81-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Ohio River at Pomeroy, Ohio. |
| Prompt | United Kingdom | The steamship was driven ashore by ice at Hamburg. She was on a voyage from West Hartlepool, County Durham to Hamburg. |
| CSS Rob Roy | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War, Union blockade: Fleeing from an armed boat from the schooner USS Fox ( United States Navy) during a blockade-running voyage with a cargo of cavalry sabers and farming and mechanical implements, the 66-ton schooner was run ashore and burned by her crew in Deadman's Bay on the coast of Florida. |
| Sveridge | United Kingdom | The schooner capsized and sank at Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea. |

## 3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Campsie | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground on Cay Francis. |
| Dart | Jersey | The ship ran aground on the Pennington Spit, in the Solent. She was on a voyage from Jersey to Llanelly, Glamorgan. |
| Elena | United Kingdom | The whaler, a barque, was driven ashore on Bressay, Shetland Islands. She floated off the next day but was driven onto a rock and severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to Greenland. She was refloated on 27 March. |
| Marianne | Hamburg | The ship was damaged by ice at List, Duchy of Holstein. She was on a voyage from Genoa, Italy to Hamburg. |
| HMS Niger | Royal Navy | The Niger-class corvette ran aground in the River Thames at Greenhithe, Kent. She was on a voyage from Woolwich, Kent to the West Indies. She was refloated and taken in to Chatham, Kent for repairs. |

## 4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Industry | United Kingdom | The sloop was driven ashore at Anstruther, Fife. She was on a voyage from Arbroath, Forfarshire to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. |
| Maggie Lorimer | United Kingdom | The schooner ran aground at Calais, France and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth, Stirlingshire to Calais. She was refloated and taken in to Calais for repairs. |
| Mazeppa | Norway | The schooner ran aground and sank at Tallakshavn, Østerøya. She was on a voyage from Grangemouth to Christiania. |
| Thorn | United States Army | American Civil War: The 403-ton screw transport sank without loss of life two minutes after striking a Confederate mine on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina below Fort Anderson. |
| Victoria | United Kingdom | The smack was driven ashore near Wexford. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Wexford. |

## 5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Batallion | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground off the mouth of the Oste. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Cuxhaven. |
| Charles Gumm | British North America | The barque ran aground on the Till, in the North Sea and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Hamburg. She was later refloated with the assistance of three steamships. |
| George and Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Schiedam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk in a leaky condition. |

## 6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brancepeth | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated. |
| Endeavour | United Kingdom | The sloop foundered off Abraham's Wyke, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to King's Lynn, Norfolk. |
| Spring | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore in the Farne Islands, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Dundee, Forfarshire. She was refloated the next day and taken in to North Sunderland, County Durham in a severely leaky condition. |
| Stephen Bayard | United States | The 155-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned on the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. |

## 7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edith | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated. |

## 8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Elizabeth Rose | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore on Tory Island, County Donegal. She was on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She was refloated and towed in to Moville, County Donegal. |
| Lord Brougham | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in the Laccadive Islands. |
| Margaret | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Engelsmansplaat, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. |

## 10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bertha | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Demroof Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Cumberland and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Cardiff, Glamorgan. |
| Cabot | Flag unknown | The brig sank at Mendocino, California. |
| Emily Allison | Flag unknown | The brig was one of several ships lost during a cyclone that hit the North Island. The ship ran ashore and was split amidships at Wanganui. |
| Fitzhenry | United Kingdom | The sloop sprang a leak and was assisted in to Dundee, Forfarshire in a waterlogged condition. She was on a voyage from Dundee to Campbeltown, Argyllshire. |
| Flatrock | United Kingdom | The sloop was wrecked on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her three crew were rescued by the Formby Lifeboat. |
| Maria Jane | New Zealand | The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone that hit the North Island. The ship, travelling from Tauranga, was wrecked after being swamped by giant waves near Whangamatā. Of the three on board, only one survived. |
| Nebuchadnezzar | New Zealand | The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone that hit the North Island. She is believed to have foundered with all men on board being lost after last being seen off the heads of the Manukau Harbour during the gale. No trace was ever found of her. |
| Wildfire | New Zealand | The schooner was one of several ships lost during a cyclone which hit the North Island. The ship was wrecked near Whangārei Heads whilst en route from Hokianga to Auckland, with the loss of all four crew. |

## 11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Annie Doyle | Flag unknown | The schooner was wrecked on the Yaquina Bar at the mouth of the Yaquina River in Yaquina Bay on the coast of Oregon, Confederate States of America. |

## 12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| USS Althea | United States Navy | American Civil War:Battle of Spanish Fort:, Battle of Fort Blakeley: The 72-ton tug sank immediately after striking a Confederate mine on the Blakeley River in Alabama. Two of her crew were killed and three were injured. She was raised and repaired, and she was recommissioned on 7 November. |
| Lina | Kingdom of Hanover | The schooner foundered in the Mediterranean Sea (36°47′N 16°00′E﻿ / ﻿36.783°N 16.000°E﻿ / 36.783; 16.000). Her crew were rescued by the barque Hellas ( Prussia). Lina was on a voyage from Piraeus, Greece to London. |
| Tussin | United Kingdom | The ship departed from Falmouth, Cornwall for Galway. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |

## 13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Atlas | United Kingdom | The steamship sprang a leak and sank off Inchcape, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Granton, Lothian to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Gazehound | United Kingdom | The 380-ton barque broke free of her moorings and was driven ashore while loading wool at Oamaru, New Zealand during a heavy storm (the remnants of a cyclone which had earlier struck the North Island (see March 10). |
| Margaret Davies | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Middle Point, near Calcutta, India. |
| Sailor | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She was refloated on 15 March and taken in to Constantinople. |

## 14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Caldwell | Confederate States of America | The 51-ton sternwheel paddle steamer burned at Fayetteville, North Carolina. |
| Clarendon | Confederate States of America | American Civil War: The 143-ton screw steamer was captured and burned by Union forces at Fayetteville. |
| Glensannox | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Bombay, India. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bombay. |
| CSS Neuse | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: The steam-powered ironclad ram was burned in the Neuse River (35°16′1.33″N 77°37′17.8″W﻿ / ﻿35.2670361°N 77.621611°W﻿ / 35.2670361; -77.621611﻿ (CSS Neuse)) to prevent her capture by Union forces. |

## 15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dorothy | United Kingdom | The schooner ran aground at Gallow End, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to Dundee, Forfarshire. She capsized and sank the next day. |
| Industry | United States | The 300-ton barque was wrecked on the Middle Sands at the entrance to the Columbia River on the coast of Oregon, Confederate States of America with the loss of 17 lives. |
| Manchester | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Ramsgate, Kent to Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and taken in to Orford Haven. |
| Margaret | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground on the Wierumergronden, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Geestemünde. She was refloated on 19 April and towed in to Groningen, Netherlands by the steamship Time is Money ( United Kingdom). |
| Thompson | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Winterton Ridge, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Shw as on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated and put in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a leaky condition. |

## 16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Challenger | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at Terranova di Sicilia, Sicily, Italy. Her crew were rescued. |
| Fanny | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground at Alexandria, Egypt Eyalet. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Alexandria. |
| George S. Wright | United States | The 199-ton screw steamer was lost. |
| In Te Spes | United Kingdom | The ship was sighted off the Isle of Wight whilst on her maiden voyage, from Sunderland, County Durham to Bombay, India. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all 30 crew. |
| Sarah Ann | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Brag of Briggs. She was on a voyage from Arklow, County Wicklow to Belfast, County Antrim. She was refloated and take in to Belfast. |
| S. D. Lewis | United States | The brig ran aground on Clatsop Spit at the entrance to the Columbia River on the coast of Oregon, Confederate States of America and was dashed to pieces by the surf with no loss of life. |
| Trois Amis | France | The ship was driven ashore at Licata, Sicily, Italy. |
| Van Capellan | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship foundered in the Indian Ocean with the loss of nine of her sixteen crew. Survivors were rescued by Naturalist ( United Kingdom). Van Capellan was on a voyage from Calcutta, India for Hull, Yorkshire. |
| Unidentified vessels | Confederate States of America | American Civil War: The armed screw steamer USS Don and armed sidewheel paddle steamers USS Heliotrope and USS Stepping Stones (all United States Navy) destroyed three schooners and four small boats on Mattox Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. |

## 17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bezaleel | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Botassio | Italy | The steamship was lost off Reggio di Calabria with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Corfu, Greece to London, United Kingdom. |
| Dart | United Kingdom | The schooner sank at Whitby, Yorkshire. |
| Matchless | United Kingdom | The ship schooner was wrecked at "Maranset", Mauritius. |

## 18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ellen, or Helen | United Kingdom | The ship was holed by her anchor and severely damaged at Penzance, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex to Penzance. |
| Freyer | Norway | The ship ran aground on the Gamalen Bank, in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. She was refloated and assisted in to Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. |
| Greyhound | United Kingdom | The ship was presumed to have foundered in the North Sea. Wreckage washed up 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) south of Bridlington, Yorkshire. |
| Lewes Castle | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Crygill, Anglesey. Her crew survived. She became a wreck the next day. |
| Mexico | United States | The 120-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Point Isabel, Texas, Confederate States of America. |
| Sandringham | United Kingdom | The ship was lost at Mauritius with the loss of twenty lives. |
| Ville de Bonne | France | The steamship struck a rock near Tunis, Tunisia and was severely damaged. |

## 19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Adelaide | United Kingdom | The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Land's End, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Earl of Derby ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Southampton, Hampshire. |
| Adolphe | France | The brig was driven ashore and severely damaged at Swansea, Glamorgan, United Kingdom. She was refloated and towed in to Swansea. |
| Border Chieftain | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground and was wrecked at South Shields, County Durham. All eight people on board were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat Constance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). |
| British Queen | United Kingdom | The ship struck the breakwater at Dover, Kent and sank. She was on a voyage from Portland, Dorset to London. She was refloated the next day. |
| Burton | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Tynemouth, Northumberland with the loss of all but one of her five crew. The survivor was rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat Constance ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). Burton was on a voyage from South Shields to London. |
| Clementina | United Kingdom | The schooner foundered off Land's End, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Edward Searle ( United Kingdom). Clementina was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Plymouth, Devon. |
| Dalila | France | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dundalk, County Louth, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Marans, Charente-Inférieure to Belfast, County Antrim, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 23 March and taken in to Dundalk. |
| Dolphin | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Colchester, Essex to Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire. |
| Eclipse | United Kingdom | The brigantine was abandoned off the Cornish coast. Her crew were rescued by a pilot boat and the St. Ives Lifeboat. |
| Edgar | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her nine crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hamburg. |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Tynewater, Lothian with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to London. |
| Favourite, Rosetta, and Pearl | United Kingdom | Favourite ran aground coming in to Hartlepool, County Durham. The brig Rosetta then ran aground on the Fish Sands avoiding Favourite. She was run into by Pearl, both vessels being severely damaged. Favourite was refloated with assistance from the tugs Amelia and Thomas & Mary (both United Kingdom). |
| Henry Peterson | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore at Arklow, County Wicklow. Her five crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Cork. |
| Kate | United Kingdom | The ship collided with Ann Williams ( United Kingdom) and foundered. Her crew were rescued by Ann Williams. Kate was on a voyage from Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France to Penzance, Cornwall. Her wreck came ashore at Mousehole, Cornwall |
| Mary | United Kingdom | The gabbart was driven ashore at Gourock, Renfrewshire. She was refloated on 21 March. |
| Mary Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The sloop was beached on the Sunk Sand, in the Humber and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. She was refloated on 22 March and taken in to Hull, Yorkshire. |
| Northumbrian | United Kingdom | The ship collided with Silistria ( United Kingdom) and was beached at Grimsby Lincolnshire. She had broken up by 22 March. |
| Princess Victoria | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Lowestoft. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France to Blyth, Northumberland. She was refloated on 23 March and taken in to Lowestoft. |
| Sunflower | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Godrevy, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Cardiff, Glamorgan. |
| Teaser | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Curracloe, County Wexford with the loss of all but one of those on board. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque, Nord, France to Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. |
| Arklow Lifeboat | United Kingdom | The lifeboat was driven against the pier at Arklow and was severely damaged. |
| Unnamed | United Kingdom | A total of 63 barges sank at Bugsby's Hole, in the River Thames at Erith, Kent. |
| Unnamed | United Kingdom | The barge sank in the River Thames at Blackwall, Middlesex. |
| Unnamed | United Kingdom | The barge sank in Bugsby's Reach, in the River Thames. |
| Unnamed | United Kingdom | Five of six barges sank at the mouth of the River Thames. |
| Unnamed | United Kingdom | The barge sank in the River Thames at Barking, Essex. |

## 20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eager | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Milford on Sea, Hampshire to Cardiff, Glamorgan. |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Dunbar, Lothian with the loss of all hands. |
| Ino | United Kingdom | The brigantine was driven ashore at Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, Count Durham to Dieppe, Seine-Inférieure, France. She was later refloated and taken in to Folkestone, Kent in a leaky condition. |
| Lennox | United Kingdom | The paddle steamer was holed by an anchor and was beached in the Clyde. |
| Lydia Jane | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Harwich, Essex. |
| Mitre | United Kingdom | The ship struck the breakwater at Bude, Cornwall and was damaged. |
| Pfeil | Hamburg | The schooner ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. Her seven crew were rescued by the Lowestoft Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was taken in to Lowestoft, Suffolk in a derelict condition. |

## 21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Joseph Wellidon | Netherlands | The ship ran aground at Nieuwesluis, North Holland. She was on a voyage from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies to Amsterdam, North Holland. |
| Swallow | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Castletownshend, County Cork. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Kenmare, County Cork. |
| William | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Sunderland, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Arundel, Sussex to Sunderland. She was refloated. |

## 22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ann Griffiths | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Dem Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Port Madoc, Caernarfonshire to Hamburg. |
| Eliza Beynon | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore at Stolford, Somerset. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Bridgwater, Somerset. She was refloated the next day with the assistance of a steamship and taken in to Bridgwater. |
| Ernte | Kingdom of Hanover | The schooner ran aground on the Barrow Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Maceió, Brazil. She was refloated with the assistance of a number of smacks and was assisted in to the River Colne. |
| Iron Duke | United Kingdom | The flat ran aground on the Gore, in the Bristol Channel. She was refloated the next day. |
| Mohawk | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Wexford. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Africa. |
| Parker | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground near Demerara, British Honduras. She was on a voyage from Demerara to Liverpool, Lancashire |

## 23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Caucasus | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Colombo, Ceylon. She was refloated with the assistance of a Trinity House steamship and resumed her voyage, but later put in to Plymouth, Devon for examination. |
| Charles Miller | United States | The 93-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank with the loss of two lives in the Cumberland River about 12 miles (19 km) below Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Salathiel | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore at "Mucklewick", Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |

## 24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Balaclava | United Kingdom | The steamship was wrecked at Tacumshane, County Wexford. She was on a voyage from Woolwich, Kent to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Fife Packet | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Londonderry. She was on a voyage from Coleraine, County Antrim to Londonderry. |
| Onward | United Kingdom | The paddle tug collided with a steamship and sank at North Shields, Northumberland. She was refloated the next day and beached. Subsequently repaired and returned to service. |

## 26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ann and Isabel | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned off Morup, Sweden. Her crew were rescued by Harvest Home ( United Kingdom). Ann and Isabel was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Stettin. |
| Fusileer | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the coast of Natal. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Demerara, British Guiana. |
| Guardian | United Kingdom | The brig sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea 18 nautical miles (33 km) off Scarborough, Yorkshire with the loss of seven of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. |
| Kate | United Kingdom | The ship was struck by lightning and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her four crew were rescued by the Filey Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to King's Lynn, Norfolk. |
| Welcome Home | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Bridlington, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn to West Hartlepool, County Durham. |

## 27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| George C. Collins | United States | The 234-ton screw steamer was stranded on the St. Johns River in Florida, Confederate States of America and was wrecked. |
| Defiance | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Kessingland, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham. |
| Glasgow Packet | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. |
| Jenny R | Austrian Empire | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore at Corton, Suffolk. Seventeen of her crew were rescued by rocket appatatus, the rest reached shore at low tide. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom. |
| Londonderry | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Corton. Her crew were rescued. |
| Odd Fellow | United Kingdom | The sloop was run into by the barque Abyssinia and sank at Lowestoft. |
| Ranger | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Lowestoft. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields to London. She was refloated on 30 March and taken in to Lowestoft in a severely leaky condition. |

## 28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Adriatic | United States | The sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Missouri River at the head of Palmyra Bend. She later was refloated and converted into a barge. |
| Hawthorns | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground at North Shields, Northumberland. She was refloated and put back to North Shields. |
| Industry | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged at Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to King's Lynn, Norfolk. She was refloated the next day and taken in to Berwick upon Tweed. |
| Jane Pirie | United Kingdom | The barque collided with the barque Balder ( Sweden) and foundered off Málaga, Spain. Her crew were rescued by Balder. |
| USS Milwaukee | United States Navy | American Civil War:, Battle of Spanish Fort, Battle of Fort Blakeley: The Milwaukee-class river monitor sank without loss of life after striking a Confederate mine in the Blakeley River in Alabama. Her wreck was raised and scrapped in 1868. |

## 29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| USS Osage | United States Navy | American Civil War, Battle of Spanish Fort, Battle of Fort Blakeley: The Neosho-class monitor sank with the loss of four crewmen killed and eight wounded after striking a Confederate mine in the Blakeley River in Alabama. Her wreck was raised and was sold in 1867. |
| Vivid | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Gulf of Smyrna. |

## 30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Euphemia | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Chatham, Kent to West Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated and towed in to Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire by the tug Kate ( United Kingdom). |
| Malta | United States | The 33-ton sternwheel paddle steamer sank in the Ohio River at Marietta, Ohio. |
| Nymph | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Middlesbrough, Yorkshire to Swansea, Glamorgan. She was refloated and taken in to Whitby in a leaky condition. |
| Oil City | United States | The 59- or 106.75-ton sternwheel paddle steamer′s bottom was ripped open when she struck a sunken coal barge in the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. She sank, and her cabin separated. Her hull and machinery were later salvaged. |

## 31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Futty Salaam | India | The ship sank in the Hooghly River at Calcutta. She had been refloated by 4 April. |
| General Lyon | United States | During a voyage from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Fort Monroe, Virginia, Confederate States of America, the 1,206-ton screw steamer burned and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, during a storm with hurricane-force winds. Of an estimated 550 to 600 passengers and crew only about 29 survived, rescued by the steam transport General Sedgwick ( United States). |
| Mark R. Cheek | United States | The 122-ton sidewheel paddle steamer burned at Ouachita City, Louisiana, Confederate States of America. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in March 1865 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Aallotar | China | The ship sprang a leak and sank at "Laguinmaux" before 11 March. |
| Angler | United Kingdom | Carrying a cargo of coffee and logwood, the schooner was wrecked on Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, United States. |
| Australia | United States | The ship was wrecked on the Frying Pan Shoals, off the coast of North Carolina, Confederate States of America. She was on a voyage from New York to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, Confederate States of America. |
| Berenguer | France | The ship was wrecked at Mazatlán, Mexico. |
| Bessie Hathaway | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Dart | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Caye Bagoro. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Sagua La Grande, Cuba. |
| Defiance | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Kessingland, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland, County Durham. |
| Duke of Beaufort | United Kingdom | The ship struck a rock at St. Jago de Cuba, Cuba and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to St. Jago de Cuba. |
| Eleazer | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Ardmore Bay. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Waterford. |
| Engelbert Hargog von Arenburg | Kingdom of Hanover | The ship foundered. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom. |
| Goldhunter | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the American coast. Her crew were rescued. |
| James Stockman | United States | American Civil War:The schooner was burned on the Blood River in Louisiana, Confederate States of America after being captured 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) from the mouth of the Amite River by a Confederate States Navy boat expedition. |
| Julia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Silver Key. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| Malibran | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight before 6 March. |
| Margaret Kerr | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Key West, Florida, Confederate States of America on or before 10 March. Her crew were rescued. |
| Martha | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground in Gibraltar Bay. |
| Nugget | New Zealand | Around the beginning of March, the cutter's anchor chain broke at Greymouth, and she drifted over the bar at the mouth of the Grey River, holing her, and out to sea. One of the two men on board made it back to shore, the other drowned. |
| Ondine | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at Punta Mulas, Puerto Rico before 10 March. Her fourteen crew were rescued by the steamship Moise ( Spain). |
| Perseverante | Flag unknown | The ship was wrecked near "Vigri", Ottoman Empire. |
| Pytho | United Kingdom | The brig sank near Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands. |
| Ranger | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at North Shields, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from South Shields to London. |
| Rose | France | The ship was driven ashore at Cape Spartel, Morocco. She was on a voyage from Morlaix, Finistère to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. |
| Rubens | Chile | The ship was wrecked at Mazatlán. |
| Seine | France | The steamship was wrecked at Cape Spartivento, Sardinia, Italy. Her crew were rescued. |
| CSS Spray | Confederate States Navy | American Civil War: The gunboat was burned or scuttled at St. Marks, Florida to prevent capture by Union forces, probably on the 4 or 5 March. |
| Sylph | New Zealand | The 47-ton schooner was wrecked on a sandbar at Hokitika, where she was arriving from Lyttelton. |
| Trumbull | United States | The ship was destroyed by fire at Akyab, Burma. |
| William and Sarah | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Schulthoek, off Hellevoetsluis, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Hellevoetsluius. She was refloated on 6 March and taken in to Hellevoetsluis. |
| Unidentified vessels | Confederate States of America | American Civil War:The vessels, one of them a tender, were burned and sunk on the Pee Dee River110 nautical miles (200 km) upstream of Georgetown, South Carolina to prevent their capture by Union forces. |