List of shipwrecks in 1852

The list of shipwrecks in 1852 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1852.

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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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). 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).[25]