List of shipwrecks in 1953

The list of shipwrecks in 1953 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1953.

The Mercantile Marine Service Association training ship, formerly a Rodney class 90 gun Ship-of-the-Line, ran aground in the Menai Strait and was subsequently declared a total loss.

Her wreck was destroyed by a fire in 1956.