List of shipwrecks in 1854

The list of shipwrecks in 1854 includes at least some of the ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1854.

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1854
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec


January

3 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Advena  United Kingdom The brig was driven onto Samson, Isles of Scilly, in a southeast gale. She was re-floated at high water after her masts were removed.[1]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Jeune Rose  France The ship foundered in the English Channel off Lyme, Dorset, United Kingdom.[2]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1854
ShipCountryDescription
John Taylor  United Kingdom The barque was lost near Park Head, between Newquay and Trevose Head on the north Cornwall coast of England.[3]
RMS Tayleur  United Kingdom During her maiden voyage – from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia – the passenger ship ran aground on Lambay Island, County Dublin, Ireland, and sank with the loss of 362 of the 652 people on board.

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1854
ShipCountryDescription
America United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Canada The full-rigged Cape Horner struck the Seven Stones reef, off Land's End, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and sank within an hour. She was sailing from Callao, Peru, to Queenstown, County Cork, and London with guano. Her crew was picked up the boat New Prosperous ( United Kingdom) and landed near St Ives, Cornwall.[1]

March

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1854
ShipCountryDescription
City of Glasgow  United Kingdom The passenger ship departed Liverpool, Lancashire, for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She subsequently foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of about 480 lives.

28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1854
ShipCountryDescription
John Wesley Unknown Calling at Koloa, Kaua'i, Hawaii, to load additional cargo during a voyage from Honolulu, Hawaii, to San Francisco, California, the barque was caught by a southwesterly gale with heavy swell which caused her to break her anchor chainss, and, in spite of assistance from the ship Joseph Hayden ( Bremen) to warp out on kedge anchors, she was eventually wrecked on the shore.[4]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1854
ShipCountryDescription
USCS Phoenix United States United States Coast Survey The survey schooner was at anchor in Mississippi Sound on the United States Gulf Coast when a tornado struck her, capsizing her and sinking her in 20 seconds. Her crew made it safely to shore in one of her boats. She was refloated three weeks later, repaired, and returned to service.[5][6]

April

2 April

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Caiman  French Navy The Elan-class corvette was lost in the Gulf of Aden.[7]

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Gazelle  United States The steamboat suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Willamette River at Canemah, Oregon Territory. At least 24 people were killed. She was subsequently salvaged, rebuilt, and re-entered service as Sarah Hoyt.

15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Powhattan  United States The passenger ship ran aground off Beach Haven, New Jersey. She broke up the next day with the loss of all on board, estimated as between 200 and 365 people.

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Albertina  Sweden The ship was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom, with the loss of six of her thirteen crew. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.[8]
SS Ercolano Sank after a collision with the Sicilia in the Gulf of Genoa, 24 April. The passengers included Thomas Plumer Halsey MP, who was drowned along with his wife, youngest son, and two servants. Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet, MP, another passenger, survived by swimming ashore.[9]

May

12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1854
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Tiger  Royal Navy
HMS Tiger aground (right), with HMS Vesuvius (left) and HMS Niger (center) offshore.
Crimean War: The steam frigate ran aground in fog on the coast of Russia 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Odessa, came under fire by Imperial Russian Army artillery, and was captured by Russian troops after her crew′s attempt to burn her failed. When the screw sloop HMS Niger and paddle sloop-of-war HMS Vesuvius (both  Royal Navy) arrived on the scene, Russian artillery reopened fire on her to prevent her recapture by the British and scored hits which caused her to blow up.

15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1854
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Jasper  Royal Navy The paddle steamer burned and sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head, England.[10]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Fidele United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner was sighted bottom up on a beach near Cape Campbell in early May. The bodies of two crew were found in the wreck. The vessel was en route from Kaikoura to Wellington with a cargo of oil.[11]
Lady Nugent  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bay of Bengal while transporting troops from Madras, India, to Rangoon. Some 400 lives were lost.
HMS Resolute  Royal Navy The icebound barque was abandoned in Viscount Melville Sound. The ship was discovered in September 1855 off Baffin Island, Canada, by the whaler George Henry ( United States). Restored at the expense of the United States, she was returned to the Royal Navy in December 1856.

June

26 June

List of shipwrecks: 26 June 1854
ShipCountryDescription
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.
Belinda  United Kingdom Sailing from her home port of Cardiff, Wales, to Cork, Ireland, with a cargo of limestone, the cutter hit the Bishop Rock in the Isles of Scillyin thick fog.[12] She got off the rock but took in water and foundered nearby.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Irma  France The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Worms Head, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom.[13]

July

13 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Silas Richards  United States The ship was driven ashore by ice and wrecked near Cape Bersen'yeva in Tugur Bay in the western Sea of Okhotsk. The vessel’s cargo of whale oil and whalebone were saved by the ship Hibernia 2nd ( United States).[14]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Island Queen  China The schooner was lost in the Coral Sea off the Great Detached Reef, Cape York, Australia, while en route to Hong Kong from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[15]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Duque de Saldanha  Portugal The government steamer was stranded on a sandbank south of Aveiro, Portugal, while en route to Porto, Portugal, from Madeira with troops, and then broke up. All on board were saved.[16]

August

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1854
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Assistance  Royal Navy
HMS Assistance.

The icebound barque was abandoned off Bathurst Island, Canada.

September

6-7 September

List of shipwrecks: 6-7 September 1854
ShipCountryDescription
City  United States The ship grounded and was wrecked in Sakhalin Gulf in the western Sea of Okhotsk. Seven men were lost before they were able to reach shore. The rest of the crew made it to a nearby Russian village and sailed for home on a brig.[17]

7 September

List of shipwrecks: 7 September 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Delia Maria  United States During a voyage from Liverpool, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, the square-rigged ship foundered without loss of life in the North Atlantic Ocean off Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in a hurricane. Future Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States of America George Trenholm was among those on board.[18]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1854
ShipCountryDescription
City of Philadelphia  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked during her maiden voyage near Cape Race, Newfoundland. All on board survived.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Arctic  United States
Arctic.

The paddle steamer collided with Vesta ( France) in the Atlantic Ocean 50 nautical miles (93 km) off the coast of Newfoundland and sank with the loss of about 300 lives. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date September 1854
ShipCountryDescription
USS Albany  United States Navy The sloop-of-war disappeared without trace after departing from Aspinwall, Colombia, on 29 September. She presumably foundered with the loss of all hands.
USS Porpoise  United States Navy The Dolphin-class brigantine was last sighted in the South China Sea off Formosa on 21 September. Presumably, she subsequently foundered in a typhoon with the loss of all hands.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Yankee Blade  United States The sidewheel paddle steamer, under the command of Captain Randall, was on only her second trip from San Francisco, California, to Panama when she was driven onto the rocks at Point Arguello on the coast of Santa Barbara County, California, in fog. The captain was in the first boat ashore, apparently to seek a safe landing point, but remained ashore. The second boat under the second mate, loaded with women, was swamped with half the 21 people on board drowned. The captain's son and the third mate were the only officers on the wreck overnight along with 700 passengers. The passengers and crew were rescued the next day by the steamship Goliah (flag unknown).[19]

19 October

List of shipwrecks: 19 October 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Nene Valley  United Kingdom The barque ran aground about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north west of Cape Northumberland on the south-east coast of South Australia.[20]

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Defiance  United States The schooner collided with the brig J. J. Audubon in Lake Huron and foundered. Her crew survived.[21]
J. J. Audubon  United States The brig collided with the schooner Defiance in Lake Huron and foundered. Her crew survived.[21]

22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Eliza Ann United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Victoria (Australia) The clipper-built schooner parted her cables and foundered on rocks at Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, in a gale.[11]

November

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Diana  Imperial Russian Navy
Diana.

The frigate sank at Miyajima-mura, Japan. Her crew built the schooner Heda ( Imperial Russian Navy) from the remains of Diana with the help of the Japanese.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4.
  2. ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "John Taylor [+1854]". wrecksite. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  4. ↑ "The Wreck of the John Wesley". The Polynesian. Honolulu. 15 April 1854.
  5. ↑ NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Tools of the Trade: Ships: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Phoenix
  6. ↑ Theberge, Captain Albert E., NOAA Corps (ret.), The Coast Survey 1807-1867: Volume I of the History of the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "LIFE IN THE FIELD," noaa.gov, 1998.
  7. ↑ "Paddle corvettes (2nd class, 220 nhp, launched 1838-43)". Shipscribe. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "Shipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
  9. ↑ Illustrated London News, 6 May 1854
  10. ↑ thisismast.org Royal Navy Loss List Complete Database p. 134.
  11. 1 2 Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 57.
  12. ↑ Maginnis, Clem. "Around the Rugged Rock". Divernet. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  13. ↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "LOSS OF SHIP SILAS RICHARDS", Whalemen's Shipping List & Merchant's Transcript, New Bedford, October 31, 1854, p. 266.
  15. ↑ Lettens, Jan. "SV Island Queen (+1854)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "Loss of a Portuguese Steam-frigate". The Standard (9371). London. 19 August 1854. p. [3].
  17. ↑ City, of New Bedford, Sep. 6-Oct. 1, 1854, Nicholas Whaling Collection.
  18. ↑ shipwrecks.com 1854 Wreck of the Delia Maria
  19. ↑ "Wreck of the Yankee Blade". The Polynesian. Honolulu. 11 November 1854.
  20. ↑ "Nene Valley". Australian National Shipwreck Database . Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Environment. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  21. 1 2 "The Defiance is remarkably preserved with intact deck hardware & cabins, masts still standing". The Vintage News. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
Ship events in 1854
Ship launches: 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
Ship commissionings: 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
Ship decommissionings: 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
Shipwrecks: 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859
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