The list of shipwrecks in 1844 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1844 .
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List of shipwrecks: March 1844
Ship
State
Description
Abigail and Eliza
United States
The cargo schooner was lost at St. Thomas , Danish West Indies . Crew saved.[ 1]
Amelia
New South Wales
The ship was wrecked whilst bound for an English port.[ 2]
Amity
United States
The ship was wrecked on the Northern Triangles.[ 3]
Ashanteo
Flag unknown
The ship capsized in a squall off the coast of Africa. She was subsequently driven ashore and wrecked near "Assurie".[ 4]
Bilton
United Kingdom
The ship foundered 10 leagues (30 nautical miles (56 km)) west of Sisal , Mexico before 2 March. She was on a voyage from Comarca Lagunera , Mexico to Liverpool , Lancashire .[ 5]
Cameo
United Kingdom
The East Indiaman was lost off Kedgeree , India . She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta , India.[ 6] [ 2]
Candahar
United Kingdom
The East Indiaman was wrecked near Bombay India.[ 6] [ 2]
Clyde
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on the Northern Triangles between 20 September and 11 November.[ 7]
Clarendon
Jamaica
The schooner was wrecked on the Mosquito Coast before 3 September.[ 8]
Columbia
United Kingdom
The schooner was wrecked whilst bound for an English port.[ 2]
Elise Eugenie
France
The ship was wrecked at "Joinville", in the West Indies .[ 9]
Guilhelm Ludwig
Bremen
The ship was wrecked in the "Garsi Islands" in October or November.[ 10]
Harmonie
Sweden
The ship was collided with another vessel and was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay before 5 November. Her crew were rescued.[ 11]
Lady St. Kilda
France
The ship was wrecked on a reef off Tahiti .[ 12] [ 13]
Lucky Lass
United Kingdom
The brig was attacked by the local inhabitants in the Nicobar Islands and was scuttled before 27 June. Her crew were murdered.[ 14]
Nativitas
France
The ship was wrecked at Martinique .[ 15]
Ocean
United Kingdom
The ship ran aground on the Middle Bank, off the coast of Sierra Leone. She was on a voyage from Liverpool , Lancashire to Sierra Leone. She was consequently condemned.[ 16]
Roberts
Spain
The brigantine was run ashore and wrecked near Black Point, Sierra Leone before 21 March. She was engaged in the slave trade and was being pursued by HMS Madagascar ( Royal Navy ).[ 17]
Rubens
France
The whaler was wrecked in the Marquesas Islands . Her crew were rescued.[ 18]
Samuel Winter
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked on Ichaboe Island , Portuguese West Africa before 10 October. Her crew were rescued.[ 19]
HNLMS "Slewa "
Royal Netherlands Navy
The Brig of War was wrecked on a reef north of "Poeloe-Karang", Netherlands East Indies before 17 April. Her crew were rescued.[ 20]
HMS Soudan
United Kingdom
The paddle steamer ran aground in the Sierra Leone River and was wrecked.[ 21]
Success
New Zealand
The schooner was wrecked in Bluff Harbour , where she had arrived from Otago. The anchor cable fouled while the anchor was being raised, carrying the schooner onto the rocks.[ 22]
Syrian
United Kingdom
The ship was wrecked at Ichaboe Island before 10 October Her crew were rescued.[ 19]
Thomas Gelson
United Kingdom
The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 16 September. She was on a voyage from Belfast , County Antrim to Quebec City , Province of Canada , British North America .[ 23]
Virginie
French Navy
The Artémise -class frigate was reported to have been wrecked whilst on a voyage from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to Tahiti .[ 24]
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^ a b c d "Shipping Intelligence". The Aberdeen Journal . No. 5048. Aberdeen. 9 October 1844.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18555. London. 25 March 1844. col E, p. 7.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle . No. 23302. London. 5 July 1844.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18559. London. 16 March 1844. col E, p. 8.
^ a b "India and China". The Times . No. 18712. London. 11 September 1844. col E-F, p. 5.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle . No. 23457. London. 1 January 1845.
^ "Loss of the Clarendon". The Standard . No. 6309. London. 7 October 1844.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18572. London. 1 April 1844. col E, p. 7.
^ "The Attack on the Pirates of Borneo". The Times . No. 19094. London. 29 November 1845. col C-D, p. 5.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18778. London. 26 November 1844. col C-D, p. 7.
^ "New Zealand" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Sydney. 5 February 1845. p. 2.
^ "Shipping Intelligence" . The Australian . Sydney. 6 February 1845. p. 2.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18718. London. 18 September 1844. col E-F, p. 7.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18558. London. 15 March 1844. col A, p. 8.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18553. London. 9 March 1844. col F, p. 8.
^ "Capture of Five Slave Ships". The Morning Chronicle . No. 22916. London. 24 June 1844. p. 5.
^ "Ship News". The Times . No. 18675. London. 30 July 1844. col E, p. 8.
^ a b "Ship News". The Times . No. 18777. London. 25 November 1844. col E, p. 8.
^ "Hamburg and Dutch Mails". The Morning Chronicle . No. 23329. London. 6 August 1844.
^ "Naval Intelligence". The Standard . No. 6160. London. 15 April 1844. p. 1.
^ Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 39.
^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury . No. 19403. Edinburgh. 3 October 1844.
^ "(untitled)". The Standard . No. 6309. London. 7 October 1844.
Shipwrecks 1840–49, by month
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