# List of shipwrecks in June 1840

The list of shipwrecks in June 1840 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1840.

## 1 June

List of shipwrecks: 1 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Henry Smith | United Kingdom | The ship was holed by an anchor and sank in the River Boyne. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Drogheda, County Louth. She was refloated on 3 June. |
| Maria Anna | Bremen | The ship sprang a leak and sank off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Leven, Fife, United Kingdom to the Weser. |

## 2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Burnham | United Kingdom | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port d'Urban, Natalia Republic. |
| Clydesdale | United Kingdom | The ship struck the wreck of Sylphide ( United Kingdom) in Liverpool Bay and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to New South Wales. She consequently put back to Liverpool. |
| Eleanore | Stettin | The ship ran aground off Kronborg, Helsingør, Denmark. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage. |
| Zwillinge | Russia | The ship capsized off Hanstholm, Denmark. |

## 3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Clyde | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire in the Strangford Lough. |
| Volo | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. She was later refloated. |

## 4 June

List of shipwrecks: 4 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna Kersten | Hamburg | The ship was driven ashore at "Aarvah", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Altona to Ringkøbing. |
| Cheerly | United Kingdom | The ship was beached in Robin Hoods Bay and was wrecked. |
| Haabet | Denmark | The ship was driven ashore near "Sud Lynvig". She was on a voyage from Ringkøbing to Hamburg. |
| Henry Cotes | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Blyth, Northumberland. |
| Irene Helene | France | The ship was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Boulougne, Pas-de-Calais to Mandal, Norway. |
| Marie | Hamburg | The ship was driven ashore near "Sud Lynvig". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Randers, Norway. |

## 5 June

List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Helen | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the "Graug Cautates". She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America to Jamaica. |
| Wansford | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Varde, Denmark.Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Ystad, Sweden. |

## 6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ant | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Swilly Rocks, off the coast of Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire or Liverpool, Lancashire to Caernarfon. |
| Earl Grey | United Kingdom | The ship sank off Walney Island, Lancashire. She was refloated on 15 June and resumed her voyage. |

## 7 June

List of shipwrecks: 7 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hope | Netherlands | The ship ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was refloated but then ran aground on the Long Sand. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to New York, United States. Hope was refloated and put into Sheerness, Kent, United Kingdom. |
| John Carroll | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Ryde, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to King's Lynn, Norfolk. John Carroll was refloated and resumed her voyage. |

## 8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fortitude | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the Bristol Channel 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) west of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire with the loss of her seven crew. She was on a voyage from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire to Cork. |
| Zante Packet | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Zante, United States of the Ionian Islands. Zante Packet was refloated and put into Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. |

## 9 June

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Minerva | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. She was on a voyage from Pembrey to Sunderland, County Durham. Minerva was refloated and put back to Pembrey. |

## 10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground 10 nautical miles (19 km) south east of Ekholmen, Sweden. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Millicent | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near "Machios", New Brunswick, British North America. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. |

## 11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Henry Neeland | United States | The ship was driven ashore near Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from New York to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. |
| Margaret | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Brig Rock. She was refloated but consequently sank. Her crew were rescued. Margaret was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. |

## 12 June

List of shipwrecks: 12 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Castor | Netherlands | The ship ran aground on The Manacles. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. Castor was refloated and put into Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom, where she was beached. |
| Marianne | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. |

## 14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Carib | Saint Kitts | The mail boat was driven ashore at St. John's, Antigua. She was refloated the next day and proceeded for Saint Kitts. |
| Conquest | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stettin to London. Conquest was refloated the next day and taken into Copenhagen for repairs. |

## 15 June

List of shipwrecks: 15 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Superb | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Sandhammer Reef. She was on a voyage from Königsburg, Prussia to London. Superb was refloated and put into Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| Wilhelm | Russia | The ship ran aground in the Victoria Channel. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Riga. Wilhelm was refloated and put back to Liverpool. |

## 16 June

List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Delight | United Kingdom | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping, Middlesex. |
| Dunchatten | United Kingdom | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping. |
| London Packet | United Kingdom | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping. |

## 17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Arab | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire in Mobile Bay. Her crew were rescued. |
| Lord Castlereagh | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Bombay, India while attempting to enter port during a gale with the loss of 130 lives. |
| Helen | United Kingdom | The ship ran around off "Magensholm". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Riga, Russia. Helen was refloated and put into Riga. |
| Lord William Bentinck | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Bombay while attempting to enter port during a gale. One hundred people died. |

## 18 June

List of shipwrecks: 18 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brothers | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Carlingford Bay. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Newry, County Antrim. |

## 19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alert | France | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Calais. |
| Catherine | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the South Bull, in the Irish Sea. |
| Lavinia | United Kingdom | The ship sank at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated the next day and beached. |
| Minerva | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Beaumont Shoals. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Lower Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. |
| Myrtle | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to London. |

## 20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Pavilion | United Kingdom | The ship sank in the English Channel off Hythe, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. Pavilion was later refloated and beached. She was wrecked on 17 August. |
| Shylock | United States | The whaler was wrecked on a reef off Vatoa, Fiji with the loss of seven of her 25 crew. Survivors were rescued by Triton ( New South Wales). |
| Star | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and was damaged at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumberland to Port Talbot. |

## 21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Economy | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on the Nehrung, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Pillau, Prussia. She was refloated 23 June and take into Pillau. |
| Venus | Sweden | The ship was driven ashore near Helsingborg. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Rotterdam, South Holland. Netherlands. |

## 22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Limerick | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Sandhead, in the Solent. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Helena | Belgium | The ship foundered in the English Channel off Roscoff, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. |

## 23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ann was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Hecla | United Kingdom | The whaler was sunk by ice in the Davis Straits. Her crew were rescued. |
| Hector | United Kingdom | The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits. Her crew were rescued. Note:Possibly Hecla (above) misreported. |
| Oriental | France | The surveying ship, a frigate, was wrecked on Punto del Bundy, near Valparaíso, Chile. All on board were rescued. |

## 24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Conservative | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. |
| Rosalind | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. |
| Vaillant | France | The ship foundered off Barfleur, Manche with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure. |

## 26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Emma | New South Wales | The schooner was wrecked on a reef in Wabba Bay. Her crew were rescued. |

## 27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Isabel | United Kingdom | The ship collided with HMS Beaver ( Royal Navy) and sank in the River Thames at Grays, Essex. She was on a voyage from London to Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Telemachus | Kingdom of Sardinia | The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean Her crew were rescued by Ocean ( United Kingdom). Telemachus was on a voyage from Genoa to Brazil. |
| Thomas | United Kingdom | The ship sank off Walney Island, Lancashire. |
| Vanguard | New South Wales | The schooner was wrecked at "McLeary". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Phillip to Sydney. |

## 28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Maria | Van Diemen's Land | The brigantine departed from Port Adelaide, South Australia for Hobart and was subsequently wrecked in Encounter Bay. The crew and passengers on board reached shore, but all were killed by the local Milmenrura people, or disappeared without trace. |
| Mellish | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground at Port Phillip, New South Wales. She was on a voyage from an English port to Port Phillip. |
| Susan Crane | British North America | The ship was wrecked on the Cobbler's Rocks, off Barbadoes. Her crew were rescued. |

## 29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Bornholm, Denmark with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Hull to a Baltic port. |

## 30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Aquila | New South Wales | The cutter was wrecked in the Bay of Islands with the loss of three of her crew. |
| Giovanni | Trieste | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from Trieste to London, United Kingdom. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in June 1840 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Agnes | New South Wales | The ship foundered off Cape Schanck. |
| Armonia | Netherlands | The ship struck a rock off the west coast of Norway and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Norway to a Dutch port. |
| Augusta | France | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 20 June. She was on a voyage from Tabasco, Mexico to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. |
| Delaware | United States | The ship ran aground on the Florida Reef before 10 June. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to New Orleans, Louisiana. Delaware was later refloated. She arrived at New Orleans on 18 June. |
| Delphine | France | The whaler was wrecked on Chiloé Island, Chile. Her crew were rescued by Asie ( France). Delphine was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to the South Seas. |
| Ellen | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at St Alban's Head, Dorset. she was refloated on 16 June and towed into Southampton, Hampshire. |
| Kronan | Sweden | The ship was abandoned before 5 June. She was taken into Kragerø, Norway. |
| Premium | United Kingdom | The collier, a brig, ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated with assistance from three smacks from Colchester. |
| Reine Rose | France | The ship was wrecked at Maldonado, Uruguay before 16 June. |