# List of shipwrecks in 1844

The list of shipwrecks in 1844 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1844.
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List of shipwrecks: March 1844 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Abigail and Eliza | United States | The cargo schooner was lost at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. Crew saved. |
| Amelia | New South Wales | The ship was wrecked whilst bound for an English port. |
| Amity | United States | The ship was wrecked on the Northern Triangles. |
| Ashanteo | Flag unknown | The ship capsized in a squall off the coast of Africa. She was subsequently driven ashore and wrecked near "Assurie". |
| Bilton | United Kingdom | The ship foundered 10 leagues (30 nautical miles (56 km)) west of Sisal, Mexico before 2 March. She was on a voyage from Comarca Lagunera, Mexico to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Cameo | United Kingdom | The East Indiaman was lost off Kedgeree, India. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta, India. |
| Candahar | United Kingdom | The East Indiaman was wrecked near Bombay India. |
| Clyde | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Northern Triangles between 20 September and 11 November. |
| Clarendon | Jamaica | The schooner was wrecked on the Mosquito Coast before 3 September. |
| Columbia | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked whilst bound for an English port. |
| Elise Eugenie | France | The ship was wrecked at "Joinville", in the West Indies. |
| Guilhelm Ludwig | Bremen | The ship was wrecked in the "Garsi Islands" in October or November. |
| Harmonie | Sweden | The ship was collided with another vessel and was abandoned in the Bay of Biscay before 5 November. Her crew were rescued. |
| Lady St. Kilda | France | The ship was wrecked on a reef off Tahiti. |
| Lucky Lass | United Kingdom | The brig was attacked by the local inhabitants in the Nicobar Islands and was scuttled before 27 June. Her crew were murdered. |
| Nativitas | France | The ship was wrecked at Martinique. |
| Ocean | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Middle Bank, off the coast of Sierra Leone. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Sierra Leone. She was consequently condemned. |
| Roberts | Spain | The brigantine was run ashore and wrecked near Black Point, Sierra Leone before 21 March. She was engaged in the slave trade and was being pursued by HMS Madagascar ( Royal Navy). |
| Rubens | France | The whaler was wrecked in the Marquesas Islands. Her crew were rescued. |
| Samuel Winter | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Ichaboe Island, Portuguese West Africa before 10 October. Her crew were rescued. |
| HNLMS "Slewa" | Royal Netherlands Navy | The Brig of War was wrecked on a reef north of "Poeloe-Karang", Netherlands East Indies before 17 April. Her crew were rescued. |
| HMS Soudan | United Kingdom | The paddle steamer ran aground in the Sierra Leone River and was wrecked. |
| Success | New Zealand | The schooner was wrecked in Bluff Harbour, where she had arrived from Otago. The anchor cable fouled while the anchor was being raised, carrying the schooner onto the rocks. |
| Syrian | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Ichaboe Island before 10 October Her crew were rescued. |
| Thomas Gelson | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 16 September. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Quebec City, Province of Canada, British North America. |
| Virginie | French Navy | The Artémise-class frigate was reported to have been wrecked whilst on a voyage from Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to Tahiti. |