# List of shipwrecks in 1852

The list of shipwrecks in 1852 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1852.
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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1852 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Agenoria | Van Diemen's Land | The schooner ran aground and was wrecked at Port Albert, New South Wales. |
| Alkality | Belgium | The ship was abandoned and sank off Muscat, Muscat and Oman. Her crew were rescued by Framjee Cowajee ( India). Alkality was on a voyage from Mauritius to Muscat. |
| Amidas | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean (38°30′S 54°20′W﻿ / ﻿38.500°S 54.333°W﻿ / -38.500; -54.333). Her twenty crew were rescued by Amelia ( United Kingdom). Amidas was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Coquimbo, Chile. |
| Berenice | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire off Java, Netherlands East Indies between 3 November and 10 December. She was on a voyage from China to Australia. |
| Dolphin | United Kingdom | The ship caught fire, exploded and sank in the "Camaroons River", Africa. Her crew were rescued. |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in the Andaman Islands. She was on a voyage from Akyab, Burma to Queenstown, County Cork. |
| George Henry | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at Limehouse, British Honduras. |
| Golden Rule | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked on a reef whilst on a voyage from Tahiti to San Francisco, California. |
| Grenouille | France | The ship was pillaged and burnt off the coast of Madagascar. Eight of her crew were rescued, but one was taken prisoner by the King of Mirabe. |
| Hyderabad | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Boca de Hulods Rocks. She was refloated and beached on the coast of Trinidad. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to a British port. |
| Ida | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the South Atlantic. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to San Francisco. |
| Jeune Laure | France | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Zanzibar. Her crew were rescued. |
| King | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the coast of New Caledonia. She was on a voyage from Sydney, New South Wales to Manila, Spanish East Indies. |
| Lady Sale | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Cockburne Reef, in the Torres Strait after 20 May. She was refloated on 4 June with assistance from Surinam ( Netherlands) and taken in to Calcutta, India, where she arrived on 7 August. |
| Margaret | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Limehouse, British Honduras. |
| Margarita | Chile | The brig was lost at Fort Colcura, Lota. |
| Minnie | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked at Cape George, Nova Scotia, British North America between 25 November and 29 December. She was on a voyage from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, British North America to New York, United States |
| Nerio | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked in the Bird Islands before 4 June. Eighty people were rescued by Thames ( United Kingdom). |
| Ohio | Bremen | The barque foundered in the San Bernardino Strait before 16 November. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Lima, Peru to Manila, Spanish East Indies. |
| Portuguese | Chile | The barque was lost at Fort Colcura. |
| Royal Packet | New South Wales | The ship was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef before 12 July. Six of her crew were rescued by George ( South Australia), five other survivors took to a boat. Royal Packet was on a voyage from Sydney to Java, Netherlands East Indies. |
| Seamew | United States | The brig was wrecked in Yoff Bay, Cape Verde Islands. |
| SMS Seemöve | Austrian Navy | The steamship was wrecked between Fiume and Pula. Her crew were rescued. |
| Ticonderoga | United States | The ship was wrecked off the coast of India |
| Tipperary | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and was wrecked at the mouth of the Benin River, Africa. |
| Ulrica | United States | The ship was abandoned in the Gilolo Passage. |
| Vice Admiraal de Ryk | Netherlands | The ship was wrecked on Christmas Island before 27 September with the loss of all but three of her crew. |
| Wild Pigeon | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground in the South China Sea (1°12′S 166°42′E﻿ / ﻿1.200°S 166.700°E﻿ / -1.200; 166.700). |