List of shipwrecks in November 1854

The list of shipwrecks in November 1854 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1854.

November 1854
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29 30 Unknown date

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1900
ShipCountryDescription
Jewess Unknown The paddle steamer was driven ashore along the southeastern coast of New Jersey and wrecked in a storm during a voyage from Cuba to New York City. Her entire crew survived.[1]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1854
ShipCountryDescription
New Era  United States The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Asbury Park, New Jersey. She was on the return leg of her maiden voyage, from Bremen to New York City.

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Asia  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Yevpatoria, Russia.[2]
Ganges  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off the mouth of the Katcha River on the coast of Russia.[2]
Georgiana  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Yevpatoria, Russia.[2]
Glendalough  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Yevpatoria, Russia.[2]
Harbinger  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Yevpatoria, Russia.[2]
Henri IV  French Navy
Henri IV.
Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The ship-of-the-line was driven ashore and wrecked at Yevpatoria, Russia.[3]
Her Majesty  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Yevpatoria, Russia.[2]
Kenilworth  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Lord Raglan  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off the mouth of the Katcha River on the coast of Russia.[2]
Marquis  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Mary Anne  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Pluton  French Navy Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The Pluton-class corvette was driven ashore and wrecked at Yevpatoria, Russia.[3]
HMS Prince  Royal Navy
HMS Prince.
Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The storeship foundered in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia, with the loss of 144 of her 150 crew. She was one of many ships lost in the anchorage when a storm with hurricane-force winds arrived. While she had both steam and sail, she had to cut away her masts due to the power of the storm and her mizzen mast rigging fouled her propeller, rendering her steam power useless. She was valued at £150,000, and her cargo – stores for the winter siege of Sevastopol – at £500,000.[5][6]
Progress  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Pyrenees  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off the mouth of the Katcha River on the coast of Russia.[2]
Resolute  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The storeship foundered in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia, with the loss of 143 of her 150 crew. She was one of many ships lost in the anchorage when a storm with hurricane-force winds arrived. She had been ordered out of the harbour a few days before the storm by the Admiralty agent in spite of energetic protests by her commanding officer, Captain Lewis, about the danger to her. She became a total loss after first her starboard anchor chain, then her port chain parted in the violent storm. Her cargo of 900 long tons (914 tonnes/metric tons) of gunpowder also was lost.[2][5][6]
Rip van Winkle  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Rodney  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off the mouth of the Katcha River on the coast of Russia.[2]
Tyrone  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off the mouth of the Katcha River on the coast of Russia.[2]
Wanderer  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The transport was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]
Wild Wave  United Kingdom Crimean War, Great Storm of 1854: The clipper was wrecked in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia.[2][4]

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Nile  United Kingdom The passenger ship was wrecked on The Stones, a reef off Godrevy Head on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, with the loss of all aboard. She was sailing from Liverpool to London, England.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date November 1854
ShipCountryDescription
Governor Grey United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New Zealand The schooner hit a sandbar at the mouth of the Whanganui River in a heavy swell and was wrecked.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Anonymous, Shipwrecks of the Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Delaware & Southern New Jersey (poster), Sealake Products USA, undated.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 W.L. Clowes on the 1854-56 Russian ("Crimean") War (2/4)
  3. 1 2 "Paddle corvettes (2nd class, 220 nhp, launched 1838-43)". Shipscribe. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Great Storm: 14 November 1854
  5. 1 2 The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle of 1855, Cambridge University Press, 28 Feb 2013, pp46-49
  6. 1 2 "The Losses by the Storm in the Black Sea". The Polynesian. Honolulu. 24 February 1855.
  7. ↑ Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 57.
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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