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The list of shipwrecks in 1841 includes
ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1841.
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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1841
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]
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Shipwrecks 1840–49, by month
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