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The list of shipwrecks in June 1854 includes ships sunk, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1854 .
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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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