Schooner
USS South Wind (1861) was a schooner purchased by the Union Navy on 13 August 1861 at Baltimore , Maryland, for the "Stone Fleet " of American Civil War fame.
These ships, heavily laden with stone, were sunk in the channel approaches to leading Southern ports in order to block maritime trade of the Confederate States of America .
On 11 October 1861, South Wind , along with four other vessels, was sunk in the Ocracoke Inlet , North Carolina , an entrance to Pamlico Sound .
Shipwrecks
20 Feb: Enchantress
5 Mar: Monarch
8 Apr: Witchcraft
20 Apr: USS Columbus , USS Delaware , USS Germantown , USS Merrimack , USS Pennsylvania , USS Plymouth , USS Raritan
21 Apr: USS Columbia , USS Dolphin , USS New York
1 Jun: Lord Hungerford
4 Jun: Canadian
3 Jul: Victory
28 Jul: Petrel
2 Aug: Stag Hound
3 Aug: HMS Driver
18 Aug: Jefferson Davis
1 Oct: Infernal
5 Oct: CSS Venus
11 Oct: USS South Wind
5 Nov: Prony
7 Nov: CSS Winslow
10 Nov: Keystone State
14 Nov: SMS Amazone
23 Nov: CSS Tuscarora
5 Dec: USS Phoenix
8 Dec: USS Cossack , USS Peter Demill , USS South America
19-20 Dec: USS Amazon , USS Garland , USS Rebecca Sims , USS Tenedos
20 Dec: USS American , USS Archer , USS Herald , USS L. C. Richmond , USS Leonidas
21 Dec: USS Kensington
29 Dec: HMS Conqueror
December (unknown date): USS Lewis , USS Maria Theresa , USS Robin Hood
Unknown date: Glentanner
Other incidents