List of shipwrecks in 1841

The list of shipwrecks in 1841 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1841.

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References

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
Albion	United States	The ship was driven ashore on the coast of India before 9 September. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to New York.Albion was refloated and put back to Calcutta. She was consequently condemned. [1]
Athalie	France	The ship was wrecked at Guadeloupe. She was on a voyage from Guadeloupe to Havre de Grâce. [2]
Britannia	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked in the Hooghly River. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Mauritius. [3]
Brunswick	United Kingdom	Lloyd's Register for 1841 lists the ship as "wrecked." [4]
Detroit	United States	The derelict brig was purchased at Buffalo, New York in September by businessmen intending to put on a spectacle for people to watch by cutting her adrift in the Niagara River above Niagara Falls with the intention of the ship going over the Falls. When cast adrift on an unknown date she drifted aground on a shoal, eventually breaking up. [5]
Ellen	United Kingdom	The schooner was wrecked on Portland Island, New Zealand. Her crew were rescued. [6]
Gazelle	United Kingdom	The ship was lost at Castillas de Santa Theresa. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Monte Video, Uruguay. [7]
Henry	United Kingdom	The ship ran aground off Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1841, and in late 1841 disappeared after leaving Moulmein, Burma.
Isabella	New South Wales	The ship was wrecked in the Caroline Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney to Manila, Spanish East Indies. [8]
"Jack Downing"	United States	The boat was lost at Annisquam, Massachusetts. Crew saved. [9]
Mary	New South Wales	The whaling barque was last sighted at sea on 30 November 1840 in a typhoon. In November 1842 Mary's wreck was found on Lachlan Island, Van Diemen's Land. Captain and several crew had died there, and others were reported to have made a boat and eventually departed around April 1842. [10] [11] [12]
Pekoe	United Kingdom	The barque sailed from Calcutta, India for London; she went ashore, put back and was condemned. [13]
Perfect	United Kingdom	The ship was run ashore and abandoned at Kedgeree, India. [14]
Robulla	New South Wales	The sloop was wrecked. [15]
Sir John Harvey	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on a reef off Socotra. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Aden. [16]
Sophia Pate	New South Wales	The brig was wrecked at Kiapara, New Zealand before 2 October with the loss of 21 of her 32 crew. She was on a voyage from Auckland to the Bay of Islands and Kiapara. [17] [18] [19]
Télémaque	France	The ship was in collision with Jeune Pauline (  France) and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. [20]
Uncertain	United Kingdom	The ship sank in Broad Bay, Isle of Lewis. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Londonderry. Uncertain was refloated in 1843 and taken in to Stornoway, where she was repaired. [21]
Vigaro	Jamaica	The drogher was wrecked at Jamaica. [22]

References

1. "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22542. London. 17 February 1842.
2. "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22342. London. 5 July 1841.
3. "Ship News". The Times. No. 17824. London. 10 November 1841. col C, p. 6.
4. Lloyd's Register (1841), Se.№B553.
5. USS Lawrence vs HMS Detroit: The War of 1812 on the Great Lakes. Mark Lardas. 18 May 2017. ISBN   9781472815835 . Retrieved 9 December 2020– via Google Books.
6. "Ship News". The Times. No. 17850. London. 10 December 1841. col A, p. 3.
7. "Ship News". The Times. No. 17617. London. 13 March 1841. col C, p. 6.
8. "Ship News". The Australian. Sydney. 12 June 1841. p. 2.
9. "1841". downtothesea.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
10. "Colonial Whalers at Sea". Sydney Morning Herald. No. 1717, Vol.XIV. 18 November 1842. p. 2. Retrieved 28 October 2022– via Trove.
11. "Colonial Whalers at Sea". Australasian Chronicle. No. 484, Vol.IV. Sydney, NSW. 13 December 1842. p. 3. Retrieved 28 October 2022– via Trove.
12. "Loss of the Whaling Barque Mary, Captain Stein". Sydney Morning Herald. No. 1826, Vol.XV. 25 March 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 28 October 2022– via Trove.
13. "Maritime Extracts". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. No. 1168. London. 9 December 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 21 February 2024– via British Newspaper Archive.
14. "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22457. London. 9 November 1841.
15. "Major Vessels Built at the Tasmanian Government Dockyards" (PDF). Keyportarthur. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
16. "Ship News". The Times. No. 17877. London. 11 January 1842. col A, p. 7.
17. "New Zealand". Port Phillip Gazette. Port Phillip. 21 November 1841. p. 3.
18. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 5481. London. 21 January 1842.
19. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 19053. Edinburgh. 24 February 1842.
20. "Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22253. London. 23 March 1841.
21. "Raising Vessels". Aberdeen Journal. No. 5010. Aberdeen. 17 January 1844.
22. "Ship News". The Times. No. 17772. London. 10 September 1841. col E, p. 7.