Ships Sunk off the Coast - 1861 to 1865
| NAME | TYPE | DATE | PLACE | LIVES LOST |
| Black Squall | Brig | April 8, 1861 | Ocracoke | |
| B.T. Martin | Brig | July 24, 1861 | Chicamacomico | |
| York | Conf. privateer | Aug. 9, 1861 | Cape Hatteras | |
| Governor | Fed. transport | Oct. 31, 1861 | Off Hatteras | |
| Peerless | Fed. transport | Oct. 31, 1861 | Off Hatteras | |
| City of New York | Fed. transport | Jan. 15, 1862 | Hatteras Inlet | |
| Curlew | Conf. gunboat | Feb. 7, 1862 | Roanoke Island | |
| Sea Bird | Conf. gunboat | Feb. 10, 1862 | Elizabeth City | |
| Appomattox | Conf. gunboat | Feb.10, 1862 | Elizabeth City | |
| Fanny | Conf. gunboat | Feb. 10, 1862 | Elizabeth City | |
| Forrest | Conf. gunboat | Feb. 10, 1862 | Elizabeth City | |
| Black Warrior | Conf. schooner | Feb. 10, 1862 | Elizabeth City | |
| R. B. Forbes | Fed. steamer | Feb. 25, 1862 | Currituck Banks | |
| Oriental | Fed. transport | May 8, 1862 | Bodie Island | |
| Modern Greece | Blockade runner | June 27, 1862 | Cape Fear | |
| Pickett | Fed. gunboat | Sept. 6, 1862 | Washington | |
| Volant | Brig | Sept. 1862 | New Inlet | |
| Ellis | Fed. gunboat | Nov. 25, 1862 | New River | |
| USS Monitor | Fed. gunboat | Dec. 30, 1862 | Cape Hatteras | |
| Frying Pan Shoals | Conf. lightship | Dec. 31, 1862 | Cape Fear River | |
| Columbia | Fed. gunboat | Jan. 14, 1863 | Masonboro Inlet | |
| Golden Liner | Blockade runner | Apr. 27, 1863 | Cape Fear River | |
| Kate (2nd) | Blockade runner | July 12, 1863 | Smiths Island | |
| Hebe | Blockade runner | Aug. 18, 1863 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Bainbridge | Federal brig | Aug. 21, 1863 | Off Hatteras | |
| Alexander Cooper | Blockade runner | Aug. 22, 1863 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Arabian | Blockade runner | Sept. 15, 1863 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Phantom | Blockade runner | Sept. 23, 1863 | Rich Inlet | |
| Elizabeth | Blockade runner | Sept. 24, 1863 | Lockwoods Folly | |
| Douro | Blockade runner | Oct. 11, 1863 | Wrightsville | |
| Venus | Blockade runner | Oct. 21, 1863 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Beauregard | Blockade runner | Dec. 11, 1863 | Carolina Beach | |
| Antonica | Blockade runner | Dec. 19, 1863 | Frying Pan Shoals | |
| Bendigo | Blockade runner | Jan. 4, 1864 | Lockwoods Folly | |
| Vesta | Blockade runner | Jan. 10, 1864 | Tubbs Inlet | |
| Iron Age | Fed. gunboat | Jan. 1, 1864 | Lockwoods Folly | |
| Ranger | Blockade runner | Jan. 1864 | Lockwoods Folly | |
| Wild Dayrell | Blockade runner | Feb.1, 1864 | Stump Inlet | |
| Underwriter | Fed. gunboat | Feb. 2, 1864 | New Bern | |
| Nut field | Blockade runner | Feb. 4, 1864 | New River Inlet | |
| Dee | Blockade runner | Feb. 6, 1864 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Fanny & Jenny | Blockade runner | Feb. 9, 1864 | Wrightsville | |
| Emily of London | Blockade runner | Feb. 9, 1864 | Wrightsville | |
| Spunkie | Blockade runner | Feb. 9, 1864 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Southfield | Fed. gunboat | Apr. 19, 1864 | Plymouth | |
| Raleigh | Conf. gunboat | May 7, 1864 | Cape Fear River | |
| Georgiana McCaw | Blockade runner | June 2, 1864 | Cape Fear | |
| Pevensey | Blockade runner | June 9, 1864 | Bogue Inlet | |
| Florie | Blockade runner | Sept. 10, 1864 | Cape Fear Bar | |
| Badger | Blockade runner | Sept. 10, 1864 | Cape Fear Bar | |
| North Carolina | Conf. gunboat | Sept. 1864 | Cape Fear River | |
| Condor | Blockade runner | Oct. 1, 1864 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Albemarie | Conf. ram | Oct. 27, 1864 | Plymouth | |
| Ella | Blockade runner | Dec. 3, 1864 | Cape Fear | |
| Louisiana | Fed. gunboat | Dec. 24, 1864 | Fort Fisher | |
| Tallahassee | Conf. gunboat | Jan. 15, 1865 | Near Cape Fear | |
| Cape Fear | Blockade runner | Jan. 1865 | Cape Fear River | |
| North Heath | Blockade runner | Jan. 1865 | Cape Fear River | |
