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Ship
State
Description
Agenoria
Van Diemen's Land
The schooner ran aground and was wrecked at Port Albert , New South Wales .[ 1]
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.[ 2]
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.[ 3]
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.[ 4]
Dolphin
United Kingdom
The ship caught fire, exploded and sank in the "Camaroons River", Africa. Her crew were rescued.[ 5]
Elizabeth
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked in the Andaman Islands . She was on a voyage from Akyab , Burma to Queenstown, County Cork .[ 6]
George Henry
United Kingdom
The barque was wrecked at Limehouse, British Honduras .[ 7]
Golden Rule
United Kingdom
The schooner was wrecked on a reef whilst on a voyage from Tahiti to San Francisco , California .[ 8]
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.[ 9]
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.[ 10]
Ida
United Kingdom
The ship was abandoned in the South Atlantic . Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to San Francisco.[ 11]
Jeune Laure
France
The ship was wrecked on the coast of Zanzibar . Her crew were rescued.[ 12]
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 .[ 13]
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.[ 6] [ 14]
Margaret
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked at Limehouse, British Honduras.[ 7]
Margarita
Chile
The brig was lost at Fort Colcura , Lota .[ 15]
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[ 16]
Nerio
United Kingdom
The barque was wrecked in the Bird Islands before 4 June. Eighty people were rescued by Thames ( United Kingdom ).[ 17]
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 .[ 18]
Portuguese
Chile
The barque was lost at Fort Colcura.[ 15]
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 .[ 6] [ 19]
Seamew
United States
The brig was wrecked in Yoff Bay, Cape Verde Islands .[ 20]
SMS Seemöve
Austrian Navy
The steamship was wrecked between Fiume and Pula . Her crew were rescued.[ 21]
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.[ 22]
Ulrica
United States
The ship was abandoned in the Gilolo Passage.[ 23]
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.[ 24]
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 ).[ 25]
References
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21156. London. 1 July 1852. col F, p. 7.
^ "Shipping". The Morning Chronicle . No. 26775. London. 19 October 1852.
^ "South American Mails". The Times . No. 21219. London. 13 September 1852. col B-C, p. 5.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21352. London. 15 February 1853. col E, p. 7.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Daily News . No. 2077. London. 17 January 1853.
^ a b c "Ship News". The Times . No. 21225. London. 20 September 1852. col D, p. 7.
^ a b "West India and Pacific Mails". The Times . No. 21081. London. 5 April 1852. col A-B, p. 5.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21293. London. 8 December 1852. col E, p. 8.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21226. London. 21 September 1852. col E, p. 8.
^ "Ship News". Liverpool Mercury etc . No. 2382. Liverpool. 23 March 1852.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Daily News . No. 1793. London. 20 February 1852.
^ "Ship News". The Morning Post . No. 24700. London. 19 February 1853. p. 8.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Daily News . No. 1960. London. 2 September 1852.
^ "Marine Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle . No. 9287. London. 3 December 1852.
^ a b "Ship News". The Times . No. 21214. London. 7 September 1852. col C, p. 7.
^ "Ship News". The Morning Post . No. 24666. London. 11 January 1853. p. 8.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21146. London. 19 June 1852. col E, p. 8.
^ "Ship News". The Standard . No. 8822. London. 17 November 1852.
^ "Shipping". The Morning Chronicle . No. 26751. London. 20 September 1852.
^ "Arrival of the Forerunner". The Times . No. 21280. London. 23 November 1852. col D, p. 5.
^ "(untitled)". Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle . No. 2767. Portsmouth. 16 October 1852.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21192. London. 12 August 1852. col F, p. 7.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 21318. London. 18 January 1853. col F, p. 7.
^ "Ship News". The Morning Post . No. 24619. London. 17 November 1852. p. 8.
^ "Shipping". The Morning Chronicle . No. 26758. London. 28 September 1852.
Shipwrecks 1850–59, by month
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