List of shipwrecks in 1839

The list of shipwrecks in 1839 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1839.

January

6 January

• Young Susannah ( United Kingdom): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.^[1]

7 January

• Thomas Piele ( United Kingdom): The brig was wrecked off Aberavon, Glamorgan with the loss of three of her eight crew. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Dublin.^[2]

16 January

• Diana ( Netherlands): The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire at Willemsoord, North Holland.

February

6 February

• Charles ( France): The brig was wrecked on the Scarweather Sands, in the Bristol Channel off the coast of Glamorgan, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued by the Porthcawl pilot boat.^[2]

11 February

• Barbara ( United Kingdom): The brig was run down and sunk in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk by the brig Derwent ( United Kingdom). Her crew were rescued.^[1]

Unknown date

• Grace ( United Kingdom): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Rhosilli, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to Liverpool, Lancashire.^[2]

March

20 March

• Rebecca ( New South Wales): The sloop ran aground at Cape Portland, Tasmania during a gale.

April

Unknown date

• Pirate ( United States): The steamboat sank in the Missouri River near Bellevue, Nebraska.
• USS Sea Gull ( United States Navy): United States Exploring Expedition: The 2-gun schooner was lost in the Southern Ocean after 17 April.

May

19 May

• Eliza ( United Kingdom): The abandoned wreck was discovered in the North Sea by the pilot cutter John and Mary ( United Kingdom) and was beached at Easton Bavents, Suffolk.^[1]

June

22 June

• Les Enfants Cheris ( France): The lugger was wrecked on the Nash Sands, in the Bristol Channel. Her six crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Nantes, Loire-Atlantique to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.^[2]

July

27 July

• British Queen ( United Kingdom): The brig was wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk.^[1]

December

25 December

• Pelorus ( Singapore): The brig-sloop struck a shoal off the coast of Borneo (8°08′30″N 115°30′00″E / 8.14167°N 115.50000°E / 8.14167; 115.50000) and sank. There were 22 survivors.

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