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List of shipwrecks in 1851

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The list of shipwrecks in 1851 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1851.


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1851
Jan Feb Mar Apr
May Jun Jul Aug
Sep Oct Nov Dec

January[]

17 January[]

List of shipwrecks: 17 January 1851
Ship Country Description
Vriendshap Heike  Netherlands The galiot was driven ashore and wrecked near Fleet, Dorset, United Kingdom.[1]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1851
Ship Country Description
Jessy  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ship foundered in the English Channel off the coast of Dorset in mid-January.[1]
Mary Ann  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Lyme, Dorset in mid-January.[1]

February[]

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March[]

4 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1851
Ship Country Description
Ardasser  United Kingdom Burnt off Penang. The fire was blamed on the spontaneous ignition of kittisols.[2]

5 March[]

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1851
Ship Country Description
Jeanne d'Arc  France The schooner ran aground on the Corton Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, United Kingdom. All but her captain abandoned her. She was beached at Walberswick, Suffolk. Jeanne d'Arc was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom to Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais.[3]

April[]

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May[]

31 May[]

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1851
Ship Country Description
HMS Reynard  Royal Navy
HMS Reynard (1848) wrecked on Pratas Island

HMS Reynard.

The 8-gun screw sloop was wrecked in the Pratas Islands. Her crew survived.

June[]

25 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1851
Ship Country Description
Randolph  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The full-rigged ship was wrecked on Amber Island with the loss of 25 lives. She was on a voyage from Lyttleton, New Zealand to London.

25 June[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1851
Ship Country Description
Maria  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The 480 ton barque was wrecked near Cape Terawhiti with the loss of 26 lives. She was on a voyage from Lyttleton, New Zealand to Wellington, New Zealand.

July[]

12 July[]

List of shipwrecks: 12 July 1851
Ship Country Description
Houqua  United States The ship was wrecked about two miles east of Cape Alevina in the northern Sea of Okhotsk during a fog. The entire crew and some of the cargo were saved by the ship Canton ( United States) a few weeks later.[4][5]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1851
Ship Country Description
Joseph Anderson  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The brigantine schooner was wrecked on the Culver Sands, in the Bristol Channel off Steep Holm with the loss of five of her seven crew. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[6]

August[]

20 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1851
Ship Country Description
Ann Alexander  United States The whaler was attacked and sunk in the Pacific Ocean by a sperm whale. Her 22 crew survived.

27 August[]

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1851
Ship Country Description
Hindostan  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Foundered[7]

September[]

3 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1851
Ship Country Description
Sarah  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The ship was wrecked on the Scroby Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. The wreck was subsequently beached at Southwold, Suffolk.[3]

13 September[]

List of shipwrecks: 13 September 1851
Ship Country Description
St Helena British East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked in Plettenberg Bay. Her crew survived.

October[]

29 October[]

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1851
Ship Country Description
Taff of Twenty Two  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The sloop was lost at the mouth of the River Teifi.[8]

November[]

9 November[]

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1851
Ship Country Description
Pollux  France The barque capsized and was abandoned in the Bristol Channel off Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom. She was anchored off Clovelly, Devon but subsequently driven ashore and was later wrecked. Pollux was on a voyage from Dublin, United Kingdom to Alexandria, Egypt.[6]

Unknown date[]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1851
Ship Country Description
Lord Clarendon United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Canada The ship ran aground at Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she was wrecked on 26 November. Her crew were rescued. Lord Clarendon was on a voyage from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

December[]

25 December[]

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1851
Ship Country Description
Springflower  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The skiff was lost on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel.[6]

Unknown date[]

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. http://www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/History/Wrecks%20off%20Burton%20Bradstock/Historical%20list%20of%20wrecks.htm. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 
  2. ↑ Chinese Repository (1851), "Journal of Occurrences", p.551.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "hipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874". Suffolk Records Society. http://walberswick.onesuffolk.net/assets/WLHG/ShipsShipwrecks1782-1845.pdf. Retrieved 25 December 2014. 
  4. ↑ Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. IX, No. 44, Dec. 30, 1851, p. 174, New Bedford).
  5. ↑ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf. Retrieved 17 December 2014. 
  7. ↑ Lloyd's Register (1851), Seq. №362.
  8. ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/. Retrieved 1 February 2015. 


Ship events in 1851
Ship launches: 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856
Ship commissionings: 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856
Ship decommissionings: 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856
Shipwrecks: 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856
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