# List of shipwrecks in May 1841

The list of shipwrecks in May 1841 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1841.

## 1 May

List of shipwrecks: 1 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brothers | United Kingdom | The Galway hooker was wrecked near Ballyheigue, County Galway. Her four crew survived. |
| Champion | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Sorkholm Reef, in the Baltic Sea. |
| Stambol | Austrian Empire | The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked near Sinope, Ottoman Empire. Her crew were rescued. |

## 2 May

List of shipwrecks: 2 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cambridge | United Kingdom | The ship was sunk by ice in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Russian ship. She was on a voyage from Reval, Russia to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. |
| Clyde | United Kingdom | The ship struck rocks off Cooley Point, County Louth and sank. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Annagassan, County Louth. |
| Exchange | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Kettleness Steel, off the coast of North Riding of Yorkshire. She was refloated and taken into Whitby. |
| Harmony | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Whitby Rock, off the coast of Yorkshire. She was refloated the next day. |
| Johanna Sophia | Netherlands | The ship capsized and sank off Helsingør, Denmark with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Stralsund to Schiedam, South Holland. Johanna Sophia was refloated on 22 May. She was subsequently taken into Copenhagen, Denmark for repairs. |
| Prince of Wales | United Kingdom | The ship was run aground and was damaged on the Whitby Rock. She was refloated the next day. |

## 3 May

List of shipwrecks: 3 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Clytie | United Kingdom | The ship struck rocks off Coolie Point, County Louth and sank. She was on a voyage from Workington, Cumberland to Drogheda, County Louth. |
| Effort | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and was severely damaged at Llanelly, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Llanelly to London. |
| Jackson | United Kingdomp | The ship struck a rock off the Mount of Corby, County Louth and sank. Her crew were rescued. |
| Medway | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| North Briton | United Kingdom | The ship was sighted off Anjer, Netherlands East Indies whilst on a voyage from Singapore to London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |

## 4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Chance | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Hull, Yorkshire. |
| Lively | United Kingdom | The billy boy was wrecked on the Buxey Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London. |
| Starbeck | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Lymington, Hampshire. She was on a voyage from Newport, Isle of Wight to Southampton, Hampshire. Starbeck was later refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Susan | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off "Darlington". Her crew were rescued. |
| Union | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground on the Nore. She was later refloated. |

## 5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Codrington | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Antigua. She was on a voyage from Antigua to London. She was refloated the next day and resumed her voyage on 7 May. |
| Dispatch | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked off Sanda Island, Argyllshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Greenock, Renfrewshire. |
| Frederico | Spain | The brig capsized in the Atlantic Ocean (29°30′N 67°30′W﻿ / ﻿29.500°N 67.500°W﻿ / 29.500; -67.500) whilst bound for Puerto Rico. Her nine crew took to a boat. They were rescued on 6 June by Sylphe ( France). |

## 6 May

List of shipwrecks: 6 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dalmarnock | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Dundee, Forfarshire. She was on a voyage from Dundee to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. Dalmarnock was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Express | New South Wales | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Gerringong. |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and damaged at Margate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to London. Mary Ann was refloated and taken into Margate. |
| Olivia | Dantzic | The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Bremen. Olivia was refloated and put into Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom. |
| Sonne | Hamburg | The ship ran aground on the Half-ebb Rock, off Harwich and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Maldon, Essex to Hamburg. |

## 7 May

List of shipwrecks: 7 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Diadem | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. |

## 8 May

List of shipwrecks: 8 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Breeze | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on Scatterie Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. All on board, the crew and 150 passengers, were rescued. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Paragon | United Kingdom | The ship was in collision with Susquehanna ( United States) in the Atlantic Ocean (43°20′N 26°30′E﻿ / ﻿43.333°N 26.500°E﻿ / 43.333; 26.500) and was severely damaged. Her crew were taken off the next day by London ( United Kingdom). Paragon was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Rival | United Kingdom | The trow was wrecked at Sand Point, Somerset. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Highbridge to Pill. |
| To Systra | Prussia | The ship ran aground and sank off Hanö, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Memel to Leith, Lothian, United Kingdom. |

## 9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was sunk by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean (44°02′N 48°45′W﻿ / ﻿44.033°N 48.750°W﻿ / 44.033; -48.750). Her crew took to the boats. One of them died before the survivors were rescued on 11 May by Kingston ( United Kingdom). Isabella was on a voyage from London to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |

## 10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary Scott | United Kingdom | The brig was run into by Brooklyn ( United States) and sank in the Irish Sea with eight of her fifteen crew. Survivors were rescued off the Isle of Man by a Manx fishing boat. Mary Scott was on a voyage from Valparaíso, Chile to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Premier | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Fårö, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire |

## 11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bernard | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent with the loss of all hands. |
| Catherine | British North America | The brigantine ran aground on the Horseshoe Reef and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Catherine was later refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Eliza and Ann | United Kingdom | The ship sank at Gloucester. |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Kingstown, County Dublin. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Algiers, Algeria. Isabella was refloated and taken into Kingstown. |
| Memnon | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off the coast of India and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Bombay to Liverpool. |

## 12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The barque was driven ashore and wrecked at Cape Breton Point, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, British North America with the loss of seven crew. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America. |
| City of Perth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at "St. Louis", Republic of Texas. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from St. Louis to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| St. Petersburg | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on St. Paul Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ganges | United States | The ship ran aground off "Mattacunbia" and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France. Ganges was refloated on 26 May and taken into Key West, Florida Territory. |

## 15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| John | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Cape North, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 16 May

List of shipwrecks: 16 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Beeze | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore on Paul's Island, Labrador, British North America. |

## 17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Earl of Durham | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on the "Walla Grundt". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Riga, Russia. She was refloated on 19 May and taken into Landskrona, Sweden for repairs. |
| Elizabeth | New Zealand | The schooner was wrecked on a reef off the Poor Knights. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Bay of Islands to Auckland. |
| Hope and Athlone | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the south east coast of Gotland, Sweden. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Parton, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Belfast, County Antrim. |
| John Lloyd | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground at Youghal, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Youghal to Newport, Monmouthshire. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
| Raby Castle | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground on the Nore. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London. She was refloated the next day with assistance from three luggers. |

## 18 May

List of shipwrecks: 18 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Catapilco | United States | The brig was wrecked in a hurricane at Acajutla, El Salvador. |
| Diana | Hamburg | The ship struck a sunken rock off "Fugla Island" and was damaged. She was on a voyage from St. Ubes, Portugal to Hamburg. Diana put into Hammerfest, Norway for repairs. |
| Isadora | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Vizagapatam, India. |
| James Tamer | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Long Point, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America. |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Point Escuminac, New Brunswick. |
| Mersey | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Fox Island Gully, New Brunswick. She was later refloated. |
| Minstrel | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the Red Island Reef with the loss of 148 of the 156 people on board. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |

## 19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Clarence | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River. |
| Devereux | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Java | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City. |
| Venture | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City. |
| Welsford | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City. |
| Wensleydale | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City. |
| William Dawson | United Kingdom | The ship was severely damaged in a gale at Quebec City. |

## 20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Amelie | France | The ship was lost on "Magdalene Island", near "Goree". Her crew were rescued. She had sailed from Havana, Cuba. |
| Donna Pascoa | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Calcutta, India. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to Bombay. |
| Highland Chief | United Kingdom | The ship caught fire in the Saint Lawrence River and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Montreal, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Ida | Prussia | The ship ran aground and was wrecked off Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stettin to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Regia | United Kingdom | The grab brig was destroyed by fire off the north west coast of Ceylon with the loss of four of her 21 crew. |

## 21 May

List of shipwrecks: 21 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Annandale | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked in the Magdalen Islands, Province of Canada, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Quebec City, Province of Canada. |
| Cornelius | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Monsicar Reef, in the Mediterranean Sea off Malta. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Falmouth, Cornwall. |
| Crown | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Her crew were rescued. |
| Watchful | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Anholt Reef, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to London. Watchful was later refloated. |

## 22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Agra | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked at Palmyras Point, India and was abandoned the next day. Six people in one boat were rescued by Colonel Newall ( United Kingdom). No trace of the 14 people in the second boat. She was on a voyage from Mauritius to Calcutta, India. |
| Royal Adelaide | United Kingdom | The steamship ran aground in the River Thames at Erith, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Leith, Lothian. Royal Adelaide was refloated on 24 May. |

## 23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Wallace | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint John, New Brunswick. |

## 24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Admiral Benbow | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in the Bay of Fundy near Campobello Island, New Brunswick, British North America. Her crew were rescued. |
| Agra | United Kingdom | The ship was lost off Point Palmyras, India. She was on a voyage from Mauritius to Calcutta, India. |

## 25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Henry Wellesley | United Kingdom | The barque went ashore near Calais, France, and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from London to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land. |
| Jannette | Belgium | The ship was in collision with Fortuna ( Danzig) in the English Channel off The Casquets and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Antwerp to Guernsey, Channel Islands. Jannette was towed into Salcombe, Devon, United Kingdom on 27 May. |
| Maria | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ipswich, Suffolk to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Miranda | United Kingdom | The full-rigged ship was wrecked on "Reeas Island". Her crew took to the boats and reached Sourabaya, Netherlands East Indies. |
| Watchful | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off Anholt, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Limerick. Watchful was later refloated. |
| Wilsons | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Middle Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London. |

## 26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eliza | United Kingdom | The schooner ran aground at Hayle, Cornwall. |
| Young Benjamin | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and was damaged on the Cabe Rocks, Cornwall. She was refloated the next day. |

## 28 May

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| George Marriott | Trieste | The ship was wrecked on Grand Bahama. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Trieste. |
| Sampson | United Kingdom | The brig ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland, British North America. All passengers on board were landed. She was on a voyage from London to New York, United States. Sampson was refloated and taken into Whitehead, Nova Scotia, British North America. |
| Zwei Gebruders | Lübeck | The ship was driven ashore at Bremen and abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Lübeck to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. |

## 29 May

List of shipwrecks: 29 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked on the coast of Arakan. She was on a voyage from Calcutta, India to Moulmein, Burma. |
| Edina | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Torbay, Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Matanzas, Cuba to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Edward and Margaret | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Gore Sand, in the Bristol Channel with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Bridgwater, Somerset. |
| Lady Douglas | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on "Cape Le Have", Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, United States to Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
| Rosehill | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the North Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dunkerque, Nord, France. |
| Samson | United Kingdom | The ship struck a rock at Whitehead, Nova Scotia and was wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to New York, United States. |

## 30 May

List of shipwrecks: 30 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Margarets | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the London Chest, in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Margarets was refloated and completed her voyage. |

## 31 May

List of shipwrecks: 31 May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Eugenie | France | The brig foundered off Rodrigues, Mauritius. Her crew were rescued. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in May 1841 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alarm | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex before 29 May. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to London. |
| Albion | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Red Island Reef before 20 May, having been abandoned before 15 April. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Charles | United States | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off British Honduras on or before 7 May, her crew possibly having been attacked. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Bordeaux, Gironde, France. |
| Content | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Rostock to Preston, Lancashire. Content was refloated and put into Copenhagen, Denmark for repairs, arriving on 15 May. |
| Elizabeth | New Zealand | The schooner was wrecked on a reef between the Bay of Islands and Auckland. Her crew were rescued. |
| Elizabeth Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. She was refloated on 8 May. |
| Harriett | New Zealand | The cutter was presumed to have foundered whilst on a voyage from Wellington to Auckland. No trace was ever found. |
| Hiram | Netherlands | The ship caught fire whilst on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Vera Cruz, Mexico. She put into "St. Marks", where she was consequently condemned. |
| Lord Wenlock | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Saaremaa, Russia. She was on a voyage from Dantsic to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lord Wenlock was refloated and taken into Saint Petersburg for repairs. She arrived on 27 May. |
| Mary Atkinson | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was refloated on 11 May. |
| New Brunswick | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground off the Isle of Grain, Kent. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, United States to Chatham, Kent. New Brunswick was refloated on 21 May. |
| Olga | Russian Empire | The ship was driven ashore at "Alt Salls". She was refloated and taken into Pärnu, where she arrived on 16 May. |
| Olivia | Danzig | The barque ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. she was refloated but subsequently came ashore between Landguard Fort and Felixtowe, Suffolk, United Kingdom. |
| Sarah | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and sank at Galveston, Republic of Texas. She was on a voyage from Galveston to Liverpool, Lancashire. |