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USS South America (1861) was a whaler purchased by the Union Navy on 9 November 1861 at New London, Connecticut. She was acquired to be sunk as an obstruction in the channel leading to a Confederate port as part of the Union blockade on ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America.

However, instead of duty in what was known as the "stone fleet", the 606-ton bark was beached with Peter Demill and Cossack on 8 December 1861 to serve as a wharf during the landing of troops at Tybee Island, Georgia, at the mouth of the Savannah River.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1861
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	9 Jan: HMS Cossack 15 Jan: Anna Paulowna 4 Mar: Marco Polo 12 Mar: Black Prince 20-21 Apr: Nightingale 24 Apr: Defence 25 Apr: Syren 4 May: HMS Victor Emmanuel 13-14 May: North Star 19 May: USS Baltimore 10 Jun: HMS Hydra 6 Jul: HMS Aboukir August (unknown date): HMS Hecate, HMS Imperieuse 22 Oct: HMS Virago 8 Nov: Trent (Trent Affair) Unknown date: Challenger, Surprise
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