List of shipwrecks in 1844

The list of shipwrecks in 1844 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1844.

May

21 May

• Saladin ( United Kingdom): The barque was taken by her muninous crew. She was subsequently wrecked on Harbour Island, Newfoundland.

August

2 August

• Anne ( United Kingdom): The ship foundered n the Bristol Channel off The Mumbles, Glamorgan.^[1]
• Julia ( United Kingdom): The sloop was driven ashore at Worms Head, Glamorgan with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Bridgwater, Somerset to Dublin.^[1]
• Margaret ( United Kingdom): The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked in Broughton Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherland to Bristol, Gloucestershire.^[1]
• Mary ( United Kingdom): The schooner was wrecked near Rhosilli, Glamorgan with the loss of a passenger.^[1]
• Thetis ( United Kingdom): The schooner foundered in Oxwich Bay Her four crew were rescued by Affo ( United Kingdom).^[1]
• Triton ( United Kingdom): The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Port Eynon Point, Glamorgan with the loss of five of her six crew. She was on a voyage from Par, Cornwall to Swansea, Glamorgan.^[1]

October

10 October

• Frances ( United Kingdom): The ship was run into by the barque Jane Boyd and foundered in the Bristol Channel off West Cross, Glamorgan. Her twenty crew survived. She was on a voyage from Valparaíso, Chile to Swansea, Glamorgan. Frances was refloated on 24 December and taken in to Swansea.^[1]

23 October

Lucy Walker.

• Lucy Walker ( United States): The steamboat suffered a boiler explosion and sank in the Ohio River at New Albany, Indiana. Fifty-six people were killed.

November

5 November

• Lord Nelson ( United Kingdom): The smack was driven ashore and wrecked at Lowestoft, Suffolk.^[2]

Unknown date

• Lady of St Kilda ( United Kingdom): The schooner smashed into a coral reef in Tahiti

December

9 December

• Fortuna ( United Kingdom): The ship was wrecked on the Barnard Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.^[2]

25 December

• HMS Pelorus ( Royal Navy): The Cruizer-class brig-sloop struck a shoal in the South China Sea off Borneo and was wrecked. All on board survived.

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