List of shipwrecks in 1839

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

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1839
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
May	Jun	Jul	Aug
Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

January

6 January

List of shipwrecks: 6 January 1839

Ship	Country	Description
Young Susannah	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Easton Bavents, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[1]

7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 16 January 1839

Ship	Country	Description
Diana	Netherlands	The full-rigged ship was destroyed by fire at Willemsoord, North Holland.

February

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1839

Ship	Country	Description
Rebecca	New South Wales	The sloop ran aground at Cape Portland, Tasmania during a gale.

April

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 22 June 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1839

Ship	Country	Description
British Queen	United Kingdom	The brig was wrecked at Walberswick, Suffolk.[1]

December

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1839

Ship	Country	Description
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) and sank. There were 22 survivors.

References

1. Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "SHIPWRECKS OFF WALBERSWICK 1782 - 1845" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
2. Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 17 December 2014.

Ship events in 1839
Ship launches:	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844
Ship commissionings:	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844
Ship decommissionings:	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844
Shipwrecks:	1834	1835	1836	1837	1838	1839	1840	1841	1842	1843	1844