List of shipwrecks in 1851

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

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]

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

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.^[2]

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1851
Ship	Country	Description
HMS Reynard	Royal Navy	HMS Reynard. The 8-gun screw sloop was wrecked in the Pratas Islands. Her crew survived.

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Randolph	United Kingdom	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.

List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Maria	United Kingdom	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.

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.^[3]^[4]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Joseph Anderson	United Kingdom	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.^[5]

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.

List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Sarah	United Kingdom	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.^[2]

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.

List of shipwrecks: 29 October 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Taff of Twenty Two	United Kingdom	The sloop was lost at the mouth of the River Teifi.^[6]

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.^[5]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Lord Clarendon	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.

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1851
Ship	Country	Description
Springflower	United Kingdom	The skiff was lost on the Helwick Bank, in the Bristol Channel.^[5]

1 2 3 "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
1 2 Bottomley, Alan Farquar. "hipwrecks at or near Walberswick from 1848 - 1874" (PDF). Suffolk Records Society. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
↑ Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript (Vol. IX, No. 44, Dec. 30, 1851, p. 174, New Bedford).
↑ Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery from Its Earliest Inception to the year 1876. Castle. ISBN 1-55521-537-8.
1 2 3 Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

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