List of shipwrecks in 1854

The list of shipwrecks in 1854 includes 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

Ship	Country	Description
Advena	United Kingdom	The brig was driven onto Samson, Isles of Scilly in a south-east gale. She was re-floated at high water after her masts were removed.[1]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Jeune Rose	France	The ship foundered in the English Channel off Lyme, Dorset, United Kingdom.[2]

21 January

List of shipwrecks: 21 January 1854

Ship	Country	Description
John Taylor	United Kingdom	The barque was lost near Park Head, between Newquay and Trevose Head on the north Cornwall coast.[3]
RMS Tayleur	United Kingdom	The passenger ship ran aground on Lambay Island, County Dublin and sank with the loss of 362 of the 652 people on board. RMS Tayleur was on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool, Lancashire to Melbourne, Victoria.

February

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1854

Ship	Country	Description
America	Canada	The full-rigged Cape Horner struck the Seven Stones reef, off Land's End, Cornwall, 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

Ship	Country	Description
City of Glasgow	United Kingdom	The passenger ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She subsequently foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of about 480 lives.

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1854

Ship	Country	Description
USCS Phoenix	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.[4][5]

April

8 April

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Gazelle	United States	The steamboat suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Willamette River at Canemah, Oregon. 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

Ship	Country	Description
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 200-365 people.

24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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 to Bordeaux, Gironde, France.[6]

May

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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

Ship	Country	Description
Fatima	United Kingdom	The barque was wrecked on the Great Detached Reef. She was on a voyage from Melbourne, Victoria to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.
Belinda	United Kingdom	The Cardiff cutter sailing from her home port to Cork with limestone, hit the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly in thick fog.[7] She got off the rock but took in water and foundered nearby.[1]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Irma	France	The brig was driven ashore and wrecked near Worms Head, Glamorgan, United Kingdom.[8]

July

12 July

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Silas Richards	United States	The ship was driven ashore by ice and wrecked in Tugursky Bay in the western Sea of Okhotsk. The vessel’s cargo of oil and bone were saved by the ship Hibernia 2nd.[9]

24 July

List of shipwrecks: 24 July 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Island Queen	China	The schooner was lost off the Great Detached Reef, Cape York while en route to Hong Kong from Melbourne.[10]

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Duque de Saldanha	Portugal	The Government steamer stranded on a sandbank south of Aveiro, Portugal while en route to Porto from Madeira with troops, and then broke up. All onboard were saved.[11]

August

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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

Ship	Country	Description
City	United States	The ship grounded and 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 on a brig for home.[12]

9 September

List of shipwrecks: 9 September 1854

Ship	Country	Description
City of Philadelphia	United Kingdom	The passenger ship was wrecked near Cape Race, Newfoundland. All on board survived. The ship was making her maiden voyage.

21 September

List of shipwrecks: 21 September 1854

Ship	Country	Description
Porpoise	United States Navy	The Dolphin-class brigantine was last sighted in the South China Sea off Formosa. Presumed subsequently foundered in a typhoon with the loss of all hands.

27 September

List of shipwrecks: 27 September 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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.

29 September

List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1854

Ship	Country	Description
USS Albany	United States Navy	The sloop of war departed from Aspinwall, Colombia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.

November

11 November

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1900

Ship	Country	Description
Jewess		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.[13]

13 November

List of shipwrecks: 13 November 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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.

14 November

List of shipwrecks: 14 November 1854

Ship	Country	Description
HMS Prince	Royal Navy	HMS Prince. The storeship foundered in the Black Sea off Balaklava, Russia with the loss of 144 of her 150 crew.

30 November

List of shipwrecks: 30 November 1854

Ship	Country	Description
SS Nile (1850)	United Kingdom	The passenger ship was wrecked on The Stones, a reef off Godrevy Head, with the loss of all aboard. She was sailing from Liverpool to London.

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1854

Ship	Country	Description
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

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3. Lettens, Jan. "John Taylor [+1854]". wrecksite. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
4. NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Tools of the Trade: Ships: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Phoenix
5. 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.
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9. "LOSS OF SHIP SILAS RICHARDS", Whalemen's Shipping List & Merchant's Transcript, New Bedford, October 31, 1854, p. 266.
10. Lettens, Jan. "SV Island Queen (+1854)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
11. "Loss of a Portuguese Steam-frigate". The Standard (9371). London. 19 August 1854. p. [3].
12. City, of New Bedford, Sep. 6-Oct. 1, 1854, Nicholas Whaling Collection.
13. Anonymous, Shipwrecks of the Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Delaware & Southern New Jersey (poster), Sealake Products USA, undated.

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