Canada
I MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM MM British Canada remained neutral during the American Civil War, but blockade-runners used Halifax, Nova Scotia, as a port from which to run the Union blockade. The Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama captured and destroyed six Union vessels off the coast of Canada, and the CSS Tallahassee destroyed one Union ship off the Canadian coast. Anglo Saxon. British. Screw steamer, 1,715 gross tons....
Georgia
i mm ml mm mm mm mm ml mm mm mm mm ml mm mm mm mm ml mm mm mm mm ml mm mm mm mm ml mm mm mm mm mm One of the first Confederate ports blockaded by the Union navy was at Savannah. A number of vessels were sunk as obstructions in the Savannah River by both Union and Confederate forces. The CSS Nashville was blown up and burned in the Ogeechee River in February 1863 and had extensive salvage operations in the 1970s and 1980s. Several blockade-runners were destroyed or wrecked along the Georgia...
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California was vital to the Union effort in the Civil War as it supplied gold to help fuel the Union economy. Although California was relatively removed from the Civil War battles, pro-Confederate sentiment was strong in some areas of the state. Wrecks along the California coast and inland rivers resulted from fires, storms, boiler explosions, and groundings. The CSS Shenandoah had a plan to attack San Francisco, but the Civil War ended before it could be executed. Acadia. Nationality unknown....
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During the Civil War Florida's many small harbors and inlets were used for blockade running, while the Union navy employed Key West as the base of its Florida blockade. The British Bahamas and Spanish Cuba were within easy sailing distance from the Florida coast. Many small blockade-runner schooners and sloops were lost in Florida waters because of storms and Union blockaders. In a seven-month period in the St. Johns River, Confederate torpedoes and artillery sank the Union vessels Alice Price,...
Alabama
I MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM MM Civil War shipwrecks in Alabama were concentrated mostly in and around Mobile Bay. The port of Mobile and Mobile Bay were blockaded by Union naval forces early in the Civil War. Mobile Bay was not permanently closed to blockade-runners until Adm. David G. Farragut's fleet ran past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, and defeated the Confederate Mobile fleet. Farragut's force lost the...
Arkansas
I MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM MM Most of the Civil War shipwrecks in Arkansas, other than those in the Mississippi River, are located in the Arkansas and White rivers. Wrecks on the Mississippi River are found in the Mississippi River section. Major Arkansas naval battles occurred at DuVall's Bluff on the White River and Arkansas Post on the Arkansas River. No vessels were sunk in any engagements between warships, but several...
Atlantic Ocean
I MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM Millie During the Civil War the Confederate commerce raiders CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, CSS Georgia, CSS Savannah, and CSS Tallahassee later renamed CSS Olustee and the tenders CSS Clarence, CSS Archer, and CSS Tacony caused major damage to Union shipping along the Eastern Seaboard as well as off South America. Shipping lanes between Europe and North America were particularly hard hit, and insurance rates...
Bermuda
I MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM Ml MM MM MM MM MM During the American Civil War, British Bermuda was a major transshipment point and blockade-running port, especially for the Confederate ports of Wilmington, N.C., and Charleston, S.C. British-owned and Confederate-owned blockade-runners crowded the island's harbor waiting for dark moonless nights to run the Union blockade. Near Bermuda the Confederate raiders CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, and CSS...
Azores
I MM III MM MM MM MM III MM MM MM MM III MM MM MM MM III MM MM MM MM III MM MM MM MM III MM MM MM MM III The Azores served as a navigation marker and rest stop for transatlantic voyages, serving both British blockade-runners and Yankee whalers. The CSS Alabama raided the waters in 1862, snaring several Yankee whalers and traders. The CSS Shenandoah destroyed one vessel near the Azores in 1864. Alert. Union. Bark, 398 tons. Cargo of 80 boxes of tobacco, clothes, and other goods to trade for sea...