The list of shipwrecks in June 1840 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1840.
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Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry Smith | ![]() | The ship was holed by an anchor and sank in the River Boyne. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Drogheda, County Louth. [1] She was refloated on 3 June. [2] |
Maria Anna | ![]() | The ship sprang a leak and sank off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Leven, Fife, United Kingdom to the Weser. [3] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Burnham | ![]() | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Port d'Urban, Natalia Republic. [4] [5] |
Clydesdale | ![]() | The ship struck the wreck of Sylphide (![]() |
Eleanore | ![]() | The ship ran aground off Kronborg, Helsingør, Denmark. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage. [7] |
Zwillinge | ![]() | The ship capsized off Hanstholm, Denmark. [8] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Clyde | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire in the Strangford Lough. [9] |
Volo | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. She was later refloated. [10] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna Kersten | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at "Aarvah", Denmark. She was on a voyage from Altona to Ringkøbing. [8] |
Cheerly | ![]() | The ship was beached in Robin Hoods Bay and was wrecked. [11] |
Haabet | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near "Sud Lynvig". She was on a voyage from Ringkøbing to Hamburg. [8] |
Henry Cotes | ![]() | The ship ran aground at Blyth, Northumberland. [2] |
Irene Helene | ![]() | The ship was abandoned in the North Sea with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Boulougne, Pas-de-Calais to Mandal, Norway. [12] |
Marie | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near "Sud Lynvig". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Randers, Norway. [8] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Helen | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the "Graug Cautates". She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America to Jamaica. [13] |
Wansford | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Varde, Denmark.Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Ystad, Sweden. [3] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ant | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Swilly Rocks, off the coast of Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire or Liverpool, Lancashire to Caernarfon. [11] |
Earl Grey | ![]() | The ship sank off Walney Island, Lancashire. She was refloated on 15 June and resumed her voyage. [14] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hope | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Kentish Knock. She was refloated but then ran aground on the Long Sand. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to New York, United States. Hope was refloated and put into Sheerness, Kent, United Kingdom. [11] |
John Carroll | ![]() | The ship ran aground off Ryde, Isle of Wight. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to King's Lynn, Norfolk. John Carroll was refloated and resumed her voyage. [11] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fortitude | ![]() | The brig foundered in the Bristol Channel 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) west of St. Govan's Head, Pembrokeshire with the loss of her seven crew. She was on a voyage from Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire to Cork. [15] |
Zante Packet | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Zante, United States of the Ionian Islands. Zante Packet was refloated and put into Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. [16] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Minerva | ![]() | The ship ran aground at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. She was on a voyage from Pembrey to Sunderland, County Durham. Minerva was refloated and put back to Pembrey. [7] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Ann | ![]() | The ship ran aground 10 nautical miles (19 km) south east of Ekholmen, Sweden. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage to Saint Petersburg, Russia. [17] |
Millicent | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near "Machios", New Brunswick, British North America. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. [18] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Henry Neeland | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from New York to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. [8] |
Margaret | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Brig Rock. She was refloated but consequently sank. Her crew were rescued. Margaret was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. [18] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Castor | ![]() | The ship ran aground on The Manacles. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. Castor was refloated and put into Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom, where she was beached. [8] |
Marianne | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. [3] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Carib | ![]() | The mail boat was driven ashore at St. John's. She was refloated the next day and proceeded for Saint Kitts. [19] |
Conquest | ![]() | The ship ran aground off Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Stettin to London. Conquest was refloated the next day and taken into Copenhagen for repairs. [17] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Superb | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Sandhammer Reef. She was on a voyage from Königsburg, Prussia to London. Superb was refloated and put into Copenhagen, Denmark. [17] |
Wilhelm | ![]() | The ship ran aground in the Victoria Channel. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Riga. Wilhelm was refloated and put back to Liverpool. [3] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Delight | ![]() | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping, Middlesex. [20] |
Dunchatten | ![]() | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping. [20] |
London Packet | ![]() | The schooner was severely damaged by fire at Wapping. [20] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Arab | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire in Mobile Bay. Her crew were rescued. [21] |
Lord Castlereagh | ![]() | The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Bombay, India while attempting to enter port during a gale with the loss of 130 lives. [22] [23] |
Helen | ![]() | The ship ran around off "Magensholm". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Riga, Russia. Helen was refloated and put into Riga. [12] |
Lord William Bentinck | ![]() | The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Bombay while attempting to enter port during a gale. One hundred people died. [22] [23] |
Maria | ![]() | The ship departed from Port Adelaide, South Australia for Hobart. Subsequently wrecked in Encounter Bay. [24] All on board were murdered by the local inhabitants. [25] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Brothers | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in Carlingford Bay. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to Newry, County Antrim. [17] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Alert | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Calais. [12] |
Catherine | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the South Bull, in the Irish Sea. [17] |
Lavinia | ![]() | The ship sank at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated the next day and beached. [17] |
Minerva | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Beaumont Shoals. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Lower Canada to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. [13] |
Myrtle | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America to London. [26] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pavilion | ![]() | The ship sank in the English Channel off Hythe, Kent. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool, County Durham to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. Pavilion was later refloated and beached. She was wrecked on 17 August. [27] |
Shylock | ![]() | The whaler was wrecked on a reef off Vatoa, Fiji with the loss of seven of her 25 crew. Survivors were rescued by Triton ( ![]() |
Star | ![]() | The ship ran aground and was damaged at Port Talbot, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumberland to Port Talbot. [17] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Economy | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on the Nehrung, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Pillau, Prussia. [12] She was refloated 23 June and take into Pillau. [18] |
Venus | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Helsingborg. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Rotterdam, South Holland. Netherlands. [31] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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City of Limerick | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Sandhead, in the Solent. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth to Southampton, Hampshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. [17] |
Helena | ![]() | The ship foundered in the English Channel off Roscoff, Finistère, France. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. [12] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ann | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Helsingør, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ann was refloated and resumed her voyage. [32] |
Hecla | ![]() | The whaler was sunk by ice in the Davis Straits. Her crew were rescued. |
Hector | ![]() | The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits. Her crew were rescued. [33] Note:Possibly Hecla (above) misreported. |
Oriental | ![]() | The surveying ship, a frigate, was wrecked on Punto del Bundy, near Valparaíso, Chile. All on board were rescued. [34] [35] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Conservative | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. [13] |
Rosalind | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles. [13] |
Vaillant | ![]() | The ship foundered off Barfleur, Manche with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure. [12] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Emma | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked on a reef in Wabba Bay. Her crew were rescued. [36] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Isabel | ![]() | The ship collided with HMS Beaver (![]() |
Telemachus | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean Her crew were rescued by Ocean (![]() |
Thomas | ![]() | The ship sank off Walney Island, Lancashire. [12] |
Vanguard | ![]() | The schooner was wrecked at "McLeary". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Port Phillip to Sydney. [38] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mellish | ![]() | The barque ran aground at Port Phillip, New South Wales. She was on a voyage from an English port to Port Phillip. [39] |
Susan Crane | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Cobbler's Rocks, off Barbadoes. Her crew were rescued. [40] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Anna | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Bornholm, Denmark with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Hull to a Baltic port. [12] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Aquila | ![]() | The cutter was wrecked in the Bay of Islands with the loss of three of her crew. [41] [36] |
Giovanni | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Gibraltar. She was on a voyage from Trieste to London, United Kingdom. [42] [43] [44] |
Ship | Country | Description |
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Agnes | ![]() | The ship foundered off Cape Schanck. [45] |
Armonia | ![]() | The ship struck a rock off the west coast of Norway and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Norway to a Dutch port. [8] |
Augusta | ![]() | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 20 June. She was on a voyage from Tabasco, Mexico to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. [13] |
Delaware | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the Florida Reef before 10 June. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to New Orleans, Louisiana. Delaware was later refloated. She arrived at New Orleans on 18 June. [21] |
Delphine | ![]() | The whaler was wrecked on Chiloé Island, Chile. Her crew were rescued by Asie (![]() |
Ellen | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at St Alban's Head, Dorset. she was refloated on 16 June and towed into Southampton, Hampshire. [14] |
Kronan | ![]() | The ship was abandoned before 5 June. She was taken into Kragerø, Norway. [14] |
Maria | ![]() | The brigantine was wrecked on a reef off Cape Jaffa. All 25 people on board survived, but some of them were later murdered by the Milmenrura. |
Premium | ![]() | The collier, a brig, ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was refloated with assistance from three smacks from Colchester. [47] |
Reine Rose | ![]() | The ship was wrecked at Maldonado, Uruguay before 16 June. [48] |
Ship events in 1840 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |
Ship commissionings: | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |
Shipwrecks: | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1838 | 1839 | 1840 | 1841 | 1842 | 1843 | 1844 | 1845 |