List of shipwrecks in 1834

The list of shipwrecks in 1834 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during 1834.

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1834
Ship State Description
Aquatic  United Kingdom The ship was lost at Benin City, Nigeria.[1]
Emily Taylor United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Swan River Colony The ship was wrecked in Cockburn Sound.[2]
Endymion  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Manchioneal, Jamaica. Her crew were rescued. She was bound for London.[3]
Essex  United States The cargo schooner was lost on the passage from New York to Port Cabello. Lost with all 5 hands.[4]
Frederick  United Kingdom The ship was taken by convicts and subsequently scuttled off the Chiloé Archipelago, Chile.[5]
Gasper United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Gibraltar The ship capsized at Tampico, Mexico with the loss of all hands.[6]
Hoop  Netherlands The brig was taken over by her crew, who murdered her captain and passengers. She was subsequently abandoned in the Amboyna Sea.[7]
L'Aventure  France The brig was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Her crew were rescued by a Maltese ship.[8]
Marie Rose  France The ship was wrecked on the American coast. She was on a voyage from Guadeloupe to Granville, Manche.[9]
Mary  United States The whaler was destroyed by fire at Tahiti before 6 October.[10]
Notre Dame des Carmes Kingdom of Sardinia The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Bugia and Bona, Algeria. All sixteen people on board survived, but two of the survivors were murdered by Bedouins.[11]
Polmqua Unknown The sloop was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[12]
Reliance  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on the Louisa Shoal, off Singapore, before 6 September. She was involved in the salvaging of the cargo of New Jersey ( United States), which was wrecked there the previous November.[13]
Robert Bruce  United States The ship was wrecked in the Dry Tortugas before 29 July.[14]
Shamrock United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The schooner capsized in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, during August or September. Initial reports put the loss as ten lives out of a crew of 11.[15][16] However, Denmark Hill brought the master and five men back to Sydney.
Sylene  France The brig was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Her crew were rescued by a Maltese ship.[8]
Tamige Kingdom of Württemberg Kingdom of Württemberg The ship was wrecked on Cephalonia, Greece. All on board were rescued.[17]
Tourville  France The ship was wrecked on St. Catherines Island Georgia, United States before 23 June. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Ship News". The Standard. No. 2148. 31 March 1834.
  2. ^ "(untitled)". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal. 8 March 1834.
  3. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17600. 3 May 1834.
  4. ^ "1832-1836". downtothesea.com. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 19870. 14 August 1834.
  6. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17590. 10 April 1834.
  7. ^ "Singapore News". The Sydney Herald. 1 January 1835.
  8. ^ a b "Express from Paris". The Morning Chronicle. No. 20282. 29 August 1834.
  9. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17686. 17 November 1834.
  10. ^ "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet. No. 2604. 17 October 1834.
  11. ^ "(untitled)". The Morning Post. No. 19735. 10 March 1834.
  12. ^ "njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"". Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  13. ^ "Postscript". The Bristol Mercury. No. 2328. 4 October 1834.
  14. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 15542. London. 29 July 1834. col B, p. 6.
  15. ^ "Ship News". The Sydney Herald. 3 November 1834.
  16. ^ Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 26.
  17. ^ "Stuttgart, Oct. 24". The Morning Chronicle. No. 20338. 3 November 1834.
  18. ^ "Ship News". The Standard. No. 2276. 27 August 1834.