# List of shipwrecks in June 1854

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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Stanfordham | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. |

## 2 June

List of shipwrecks: 2 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Autumn | United Kingdom | The collier, a brig, sprang a leak and was beached at Ostend, Norfolk, where she was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by the Happisburgh Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. |
| Matilda | Norway | The full-rigged ship was wrecked on the Lemon and Owers Sandbank, in the English Channel. Her crew were rescued by the brig Creole ( Bremen). Matilda was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom to Algiers, Algeria. |

## 3 June

List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| City of Manchester | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground off Windmill Island, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Dreadnought | United Kingdom | The barque was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (43°50′N 66°06′W﻿ / ﻿43.833°N 66.100°W﻿ / 43.833; -66.100). |
| Louisa | Antigua | The ship was wrecked on Sandy Island. She was on a voyage from Antigua to Tortola. |
| Shamrock | United Kingdom | The steamship sank at Waterford. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from New Ross, County Wexford to Waterford. |

## 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. |

## 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| William Gladstone | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Conch Shell Point, Inagua, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Gonaïves, Haiti to Liverpool. |

## 6 June

List of shipwrecks: 6 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fortuna | Kingdom of Hanover | The ship was driven ashore on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham, United Kingdom to Oberndorf. |
| Robert and Ann | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached near Bridlington, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. |

## 8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Beaver | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on the Buxey Spit, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was refloated on 11 June and resumed her voyage. |
| David Cannon | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Big Dover Island. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| St. Mungo | British North America | The ship was wrecked in the Ragged Islands, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Pictou, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |
| William and Jane | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Ross-shire. She was refloated. |
| Zetland | British North America | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on "Pennant Island", Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Yarmouth to Pictou. |

## 9 June

List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary H. Campbell | United States | The ship was driven ashore on Whitehead Island, Maine. She was on a voyage from "Sagua" to London, United Kingdom. She was refloated on 12 June and towed in to Rockland, Maine for repairs. |
| M. J. Kimball | United States | The ship ran aground on the Ganway Ledge, off Rockland, Maine and capsized. She was on a voyage from Sagua to London. |
| Railway King | United Kingdom | The flat foundered in the Irish Sea. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Bardsey Island, Pembrokeshire to Liverpool, Lancashire. |

## 10 June

List of shipwrecks: 10 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Gauntlet | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at New York, United States. She was refloated the next day. |
| Union | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked off Scatterie Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |

## 11 June

List of shipwrecks: 11 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Wear | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore on the east coast of Miscou Island, New Brunswick, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from North Shields, County Durham to Dalhousie, New Brunswick, British North America. |
| Welcome | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Sizewell Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk and was damaged. She floated off in a leaky condition and was then wrecked on the Newcombe Sand. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. |
| No. 103 | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground off Broadstairs, Kent. |

## 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. She refloated the next day when her cargo of salt dissolved and was beached at Waterloo, Lancashire. |
| 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. |
| 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. |

## 13 June

List of shipwrecks: 13 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hygeia | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground and was wrecked on the Pratas Shoal, between Hong Kong and Formosa with the loss of 390 of the 519 people on board. The Chinese schooner Victoria rescued 147 survivors. Hygeia was on a voyage from Hong Kong to San Francisco, California, United States. |
| Magnus | Sweden | The schooner was run into by the steamship Gothenburg ( Sweden) and sank at Gothenburg. |

## 14 June

List of shipwrecks: 14 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hector | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore at Westkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Antwerp, Belgium to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. She was refloated and found to be leaky. |
| Nova Scotia | British North America | The barque was wrecked on the Mun Ledge. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Saint John, New Brunswick. |

## 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. |
| 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. |
| Major | United Kingdom | The flatboat was run into by Bostonian ( United States), holed by her own anchor and sank at Liverpool, Lancashire. |

## 17 June

List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Abergeldie | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked on a reef in the Gaspar Strait. Her crew abandoned ship the next day; they were rescued by Euphrates ( United Kingdom). Abergeldie was on a voyage from London to Hong Kong. |
| Daphne | United Kingdom | The schooner struck the Gwhamgarcey Rock and sank in Ramsay Sound. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire to Newport, Monmouthshire. |
| Germania | Prussia | The sloop was abandoned off the Trindelen Rock. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom to Königsberg. She was subsequently taken in to Gothenburg, Sweden in a waterlogged condition. |

## 19 June

List of shipwrecks: 19 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ceres | United Kingdom | The steamship struck the Cabadello Rock, at the mouth of the Douro. She was on a voyage from London to Oporto, Portugal. She was refloated and taken in to Oporto. |
| Glaphyra | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the east point of Nevis. She was on a voyage from London to Saint Kitts. |
| Thomasine | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked on a reef in the Pacific Ocean (16°29′S 148°03′E﻿ / ﻿16.483°S 148.050°E﻿ / -16.483; 148.050 with the loss of a crew member. Survivors took to the boats. On 4 July Bato ( Netherlands) rescued the survivors. Thomasine was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. |

## 20 June

List of shipwrecks: 20 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Batavia | Netherlands | The steamship ran aground on the Brielle Flats. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to London, United Kingdom. |
| Enchantress | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground on The Shingles, off the north Kent coast. She was on a voyage from Demerara, British Guiana to London. She was refloated with assistance from a tug and taken in tow for London. |

## 21 June

List of shipwrecks: 21 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eliza | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was driven ashore west of Lavernock Point, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Demerara, British Guiana. |

## 22 June

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Topaz | United States | The ship was wrecked on the Pratos Shoal. Her crew were rescued by Cassiterides (Flag unknown). Topaz was on a voyage from Hong Kong to San Francisco, California. |

## 23 June

List of shipwrecks: 23 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cape Horn | Victoria | The barque ran aground at Geelong. She was on a voyage from Hobart, Van Diemen's Land to Geelong. |
| Fanny | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on The Shingles, off the north Kent coast. She was on a voyage from Milton Regis, Kent to HMNB Devonport. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Grecian | Victoria | The brig ran aground at Geelong. |
| Quicksilver | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Holm Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. |
| Scotia | Victoria | The brigantine ran aground at Geelong. She was on a voyage from Hobart to Geelong. |
| Success | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached in Lough Swilly. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Galway. She was refloated on 29 June and taken in to Londonderry for repairs. |
| Vigilant | Victoria | The brig ran aground at Geelong. She was on a voyage from Hobart to Geelong. |

## 24 June

List of shipwrecks: 24 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Grace Darling | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at "Surge View". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Westport, County Mayo. She was refloated and taken in to Westport. |

## 25 June

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Breeze | United Kingdom | The ship was in collision with Lapwing ( Hamburg) and sank off Falsterbo, Sweden. Her crew were rescued by Lapwing. Breeze was on a voyage from Königsberg, Prussia to an English port. |
| Midas | United Kingdom | The ship was beached in the Chincha Islands, Peru. She was on a voyage from the Chincha Islands to Queenstown, County Cork. She was declared a total loss. |
| Paramatta | United Kingdom | The ship departed from The Downs for Ceylon. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |
| Sir Henry Hardinge | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Trial Bay. |

## 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. |
| 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. She got off the rock but took in water and foundered nearby. |
| Bolina | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at the Sand Head, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from London to Llanelly, Glamorgan. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| May | United Kingdom | The flat sank off Rhyl, Denbighshire with the loss of three of her four crew. |
| 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. Sophia was refloated on 28 June and taken in to Liverpool. |
| Olympus, and Trade 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. |
| 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. |

## 27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Assaye | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship capsized at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was righted. |
| Paul | United Kingdom | The schooner ran aground on the Great Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the tug Liver ( United Kingdom). Paul was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire to Newport, Monmouthshire. |
| Roslin Castle | United Kingdom | The ship sank at Plymouth, Devon. |

## 28 June

List of shipwrecks: 28 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The barque ran aground on a reef in the Torres Straits. She was refloated but was consequently abandoned off the Great Barrier Reef. Her crew reached Booby Island, New South Wales on 3 July. They were rescued on 7 July by Bato ( Netherlands). Elizabeth was on a voyage from Melbourne, Victoria to Moulmein, Burma. |
| Himalaya | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Varna, Ottoman Empire to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated on 30 June and taken in to Southampton. |

## 29 June

List of shipwrecks: 29 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Harmony | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Ross, Northumberland. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated in early August. |

## 30 June

List of shipwrecks: 30 June 1854 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ant | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Whitby Rock. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Whitby, Yorkshire. |
| Artemisia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Kangean Island, Netherlands East Indies. All 24 people survived. She was on a voyage from New Zealand to Singapore, Straits Settlements. |
| John Bull | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Mockbeggar, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool in a severely leaky condition. |

## 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. |
| HNLMS Doggerbank | Royal Netherlands Navy | The frigate ran aground at Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Harvest | United States | The ship was driven ashore at Sharps Point, Maryland. |
| Infatigable | Belgium | The brig was wrecked at Archangelsk, Russia on 16 or 18 June. Her crew were rescued. |
| Irma | France | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Worms Head, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. |
| 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 |
| Lady Brisbane | United Kingdom | The paddle steamer sank at Ayr on or before 8 June. She was refloated on 10 June. |
| Liburn | United Kingdom | The brig was sunk by ice in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Her twelve crew were rescued by Nicaragua ( United Kingdom). Liburn was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Vernon | United States | The barque was destroyed by fire at Mobile, Alabama. |
| 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. |