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The list of shipwrecks in June 1854 includes
ships sunk, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during June
1854 .
1 June
List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Anna
Russia
The ship ran aground off
Fehmarn ,
Duchy of Schleswig . She was on a voyage from
Narva to an English port. She was refloated and put in to
Travemünde for repairs.
[1]
Ann and Marys
United Kingdom
The
schooner was in collision with
Erin's Queen (
United Kingdom ) in the
English Channel off
Dover ,
Kent . She was on a voyage from
Chichester ,
Sussex to
Sunderland, County Durham . She put in to Dover, where she sank.
[2]
Europa
United Kingdom
The
transport ship was destroyed by fire and sank in the
Atlantic Ocean (
48°01′N 7°30′W / 48.017°N 7.500°W / 48.017; -7.500 ) with the loss of 21 lives. There were at least 94 survivors; they were rescued by the
brig Clementine (
United Kingdom and the
schooner Kennett Kingsford (
Prussia ) and transferred to
HMS Tribune and the transport ship Sir Robert Sale (
United Kingdom ). Europa was on a voyage from
HMNB Devonport to the Mediterranean.
[3]
Iowa
United Kingdom
The ship was last sighted in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from
Liverpool ,
Lancashire to
Melbourne ,
Victoria . No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board, her crew and 60 passengers.
[4]
Juno
United Kingdom
The
collier , a
brig , was wrecked on the Heaps Sandbank, in the
North Sea off the coast of
Essex . Her crew were rescued by a brig. She was on a voyage from
South Shields ,
County Durham to
London .
[5]
[6]
[7]
Lady Anne
United Kingdom
The
brig was wrecked on the Middle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued by the
schooner Sea Lark (
United Kingdom ). She was on a voyage from Sunderland to London.
[8]
[9]
Sea Lark
United Kingdom
The
schooner ran aground on the Middle Sand. She was on a voyage from
Hartlepool ,
County Durham to
Chatham, Kent . She was refloated but found to be severely leaky and was beached at
Sheerness ,
Kent .
[8]
[9]
Stanfordham
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued.
[6]
2 June
3 June
4 June
List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Najade
Prussia
The
brig was wrecked on the Galloper Sand with the loss of four of her thirteen crew. Survivors were rescued by the
smack Sea Flower (
United Kingdom ). Najade was on a voyage from
Memel to
Gloucester ,
United Kingdom . She was refloated on 7 June and towed in to
Ramsgate , Kent, United Kingdom, where she arrived on 11 June in a capsized condition.
[14]
[15]
[5]
[1]
[7]
5 June
List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Sarah Sands
United Kingdom
The ship ran aground in the
Strait of Belle Isle . She was on a voyage from
Liverpool ,
Lancashire to
Quebec City ,
Province of Canada ,
British North America . She was refloated on 8 June and resumed her voyage.
[16]
[17]
Symmetry
United Kingdom
The ship foundered off
Juist ,
Kingdom of Hanover . Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from
Newcastle upon Tyne ,
Northumberland to
Hamburg .
[15]
Thornley Close
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on the Salt Key Shoals. Two crew reached
Key West, Florida , United States in the
cutter . The remainder of her crew, in the
longboat , were reported missing. She was on a voyage from
Belize City ,
British Honduras to
Falmouth, Cornwall .
[11]
William Gladstone
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on Conch Shell Point,
Inagua ,
Bahamas . She was on a voyage from
Gonaïves , Haiti to Liverpool.
[18]
6 June
8 June
9 June
10 June
11 June
12 June
List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Albion
United Kingdom
The
sloop ran aground on the Great Burbo Bank, in
Liverpool Bay . She floated off and sank in the Crosby Channel. She was on a voyage from
Liverpool ,
Lancashire to
Cardiff ,
Glamorgan . She refloated the next day when her cargo of salt dissolved and was beached at
Waterloo, Lancashire .
[19]
[23]
Belochee
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore at Crosby Point, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from
Mobile, Alabama , United States to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool.
[24]
Ganymede
British North America
The ship was driven ashore on
Campobello Island ,
New Brunswick . She was on a voyage from
Eastport, Maine , United States to
London . She was refloated the next day and towed back to Eastport.
[16]
13 June
14 June
16 June
List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Estafette
United Kingdom
The ship ran aground on the Corton Sands, in the
North Sea off the coast of
Suffolk ,
United Kingdom . She was on a voyage from
Sunderland, County Durham , United Kingdom to
Bordeaux ,
Gironde .
[29]
Hector
United Kingdom
The
brig was driven ashore at
Vlissingen ,
Zeeland , Netherlands. She was on a voyage from
Antwerp , Belgium to
Newcastle upon Tyne ,
Northumberland . She was refloated and found to be leaky.
[29]
Major
United Kingdom
The
flatboat was run into by Bostonian (
United States ), holed by her own anchor and sank at
Liverpool ,
Lancashire .
[30]
17 June
19 June
20 June
21 June
22 June
23 June
24 June
25 June
26 June
List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Anne Kenny
United Kingdom
The ship ran aground on
Anticosti Island ,
Nova Scotia ,
British North America . She was on a voyage from
Liverpool ,
Lancashire to
Quebec City ,
Province of Canada , British North America.
[48]
Belinda
United Kingdom
Sailing from her
home port of
Cardiff ,
Glamorgan , to
Cork , with a cargo of
limestone , the
cutter hit the
Bishop Rock in the
Isles of Scilly in thick fog.
[49] She got off the rock but took in water and foundered nearby.
[50]
Bolina
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore at the Sand Head,
Hampshire . She was on a voyage from
London to
Llanelly ,
Glamorgan .
[42]
Cole
France
The
schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at
Swansea , Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from
Nantes ,
Loire-Inférieure to Swansea.
[51]
Despatch
United Kingdom
The
schooner was run into by Mary Carson (
United Kingdom ) and sank off
Cemlyn ,
Anglesey . She was on a voyage from Liverpool to
Rotterdam ,
South Holland , Netherlands.
[52]
[53]
Fatima
United Kingdom
The
barque was wrecked on the
Great Detached Reef in the
Coral Sea . She was on a voyage from
Melbourne ,
Victoria ,
Australia , to
Batavia ,
Netherlands East Indies .
Gustave Irma
France
The
brig was driven ashore and wrecked at
Worms Head , Glamorgan. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to
Bayonne ,
Basses-Pyrénées .
[12]
John and Jane
United Kingdom
The
flat struck a rock and sank at
Porthdinllaen ,
Caernarfonshire . She was on a voyage from
Wicklow to
Chester, Cheshire .
[54]
Kangaroo
United Kingdom
The
steamship was damaged by fire in the
River Thames at
Horsleydown ,
Surrey . She was on a voyage from
Manila ,
Spanish East Indies to
London .
[55]
May
United Kingdom
The
flat sank off
Rhyl ,
Denbighshire with the loss of three of her four crew.
[42]
Sophia
United Kingdom
The
schooner ran aground on Taylor's Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to
Lowestoft ,
Suffolk . She was refloated the next day but was consequently beached at Crosby Point, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.
[42]
[53]
[43] Sophia was refloated on 28 June and taken in to Liverpool.
[56]
Olympus , andTrade Wind
United Kingdom
United States
The
full-rigged ships were in collision in the
Atlantic Ocean (
41°50′N 57°20′W / 41.833°N 57.333°W / 41.833; -57.333 ) and sank with the loss of 24 lives. Survivors were rescued by Stad Antwerpen (
Belgium ). Olympus lost three of her 40 passengers and three of her fourteen crew. She was on a voyage from
Liverpool ,
Lancashire to
Halifax, Nova Scotia and
Boston, Massachusetts , United States. Trade Wind lost seventeen of her 35 crew, but all seventeen passengers were rescued; one crew man was rescued on 2 July by Empire (
United Kingdom ), having clung to the ship's foremast for six days. She was on a voyage from
Mobile, Alabama , United States to Halifax and Liverpool.
[57]
[58]
[18]
[59]
Zenith
France
The
brig was driven ashore near
Porthcawl , Glamorgan with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to
Bône ,
Algeria .
[51]
27 June
28 June
29 June
30 June
Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1854
Ship
State
Description
Deux Frères
United Kingdom
The ship caught fire in the
Mediterranean Sea and was abandoned. She was discovered by Leonidas (flag unknown), the fire was extinguished and she was towed in to
Marseille ,
Bouches-du-Rhône , where she arrived on 26 June.
[20]
HNLMS Doggerbank
Royal Netherlands Navy
The
frigate ran aground at
Smyrna ,
Ottoman Empire .
[62]
En Avant
United Kingdom
The
brig sank near
Savannah, Georgia , United States before 2 June. She was refloated and taken in to
Charleston, South Carolina .
[63]
Euterpe
United Kingdom
The
barque was wrecked at
Byndoor ,
India after 11 Junewith the loss of three of her 22 crew. She was on a voyage from
Calcutta , India to
Liverpool ,
Lancashire .
[64]
[65]
Harvest
United States
The ship was driven ashore at Sharps Point,
Maryland .
[17]
Infatigable
Belgium
The
brig was wrecked at
Archangelsk ,
Russia on 16 or 18 June. Her crew were rescued.
[66]
Irma
France
The
brig was driven ashore and wrecked near
Worms Head ,
Glamorgan ,
Wales ,
United Kingdom .
[67]
Isaac C. Green
United States
The
steamboat broke in two and sank 100 nautical miles (190 km) south west of
Cape San Antonio, Cuba . Her twelve crew took to two boats. Seven of them in one of the boats were rescued by
HMS Espeigle (
Royal Navy ). Isaac C. Green was on a voyage from
Havana ,
Cuba to
San Juan del Norte , Nicaragua
[68]
Lady Brisbane
United Kingdom
The
paddle steamer sank at
Ayr on or before 8 June. She was refloated on 10 June.
[69]
Liburn
United Kingdom
The
brig was sunk by ice in the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland . Her twelve crew were rescued by Nicaragua (
United Kingdom ).
[38] Liburn was on a voyage from
Newcastle upon Tyne ,
Northumberland to
Quebec City ,
Province of Canada ,
British North America .
[70]
Mary Shepherd
United Kingdom
The ship was destroyed by fire in the St. Beanard Straits before 7 June. She was on a voyage from
London to
Shanghai ,
China .
[71]
Mayflower
United Kingdom
The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from
South Shields ,
County Durham to Quebec City.
[63]
Vernon
United States
The
barque was destroyed by fire at
Mobile, Alabama .
[10]
William and Elizabeth
United Kingdom
The ship was driven ashore on
Campobello Island ,
New Brunswick , British North America. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to
Saint Andrews, New Brunswick .
[11]
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Shipwrecks 1850–59, by month
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