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The '''list of shipwrecks in January 1849''' includes [[ship]]s sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during January [[1849]].
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==1 January==
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|ship=''Dart'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[yawl]] foundered in the [[North Sea]] off [[Aldeburgh]], [[Suffolk]] with the loss of four of the seven people on board.<ref name=S110149>{{Cite news |title=Melancholy Loss of Life |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 January 1849 |issue=7617 |page=1 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Despina'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was abandoned in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Bordeaux Packet'' ({{flag|France}}).<ref name=CM180149/>
}}
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|ship=''Formosa'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship caught fire and was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Henry Winch'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Formosa'' was on a voyage from [[Pará]], [[Empire of Brazil|Brazil]] to [[London]].<ref name=Times160149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 January 1849 |page=8 |issue=20074 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Hesperus'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at [[Cardiff]], [[Glamorgan]]. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to [[Whitby]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].<ref name=S030149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 January 1849 |issue=7610 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Newport'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged at [[Sunderland, County Durham]]. She was refloated but found to be leaky.<ref name=S030149/>
}}
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|ship=''Sea Bird'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Bowler Bank, in the [[English Channel]] off the coast of [[Sussex]]. She was on a voyage from [[South Shields]], [[County Durham]] to [[Galway]]. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.<ref name=NC050149/>
}}
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==2 January==
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|ship=''Carl Richard'' 
|flag=[[File:Flagge_Greifswald.png|22px|border]] [[Greifswald]] 
|desc=The ship ran aground at [[South Shields]], [[County Durham]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Greifswald to South Shields. She was refloated and taken in to South Shields in a leaky condition.<ref name=NC050149>{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=The Newcastle Courant etc |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=5 January 1849 |issue=9083 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Circonstance'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[full-rigged ship]] foundered in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] [[league (unit)|40 leagues]] ({{convert|120|nmi|km}}) west of [[Cape Finisterre]], Spain. Her crew were rescued by the [[galiot]] ''Voorwark'' ({{flag|Netherlands}}).<ref name=MC170149>{{Cite news |title=The Peninsular Mail |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=17 January 1849 |issue=24724 }}</ref><ref name=CM220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Constant'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew survived. She was subsequently driven ashore at [[Happisburgh]], [[Norfolk]]. She was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]] to [[Cartagena, Spain]]. She was refloated on 26 January and towed in to [[Great Yarmouth]], Norfolk.<ref name=S030149/><ref name=CM080149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=8 January 1849 |issue=19848 }}</ref><ref name=NC020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Hugo'' 
|flag=[[File:POL Szczecin flag.svg|22px]] [[Stettin]] 
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of [[Essex]], United Kingdom before 5 February.<ref name=S030149/><ref name=Benham>{{cite book |title=The Salvagers |first=Hervey |last=Benham |author-link=Hervey Benham |pages=181–82 |publisher=Essex County Newspapers Ltd |location=Colchester |year=1980 |isbn=00-950944-2-3}}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Lisbonnais''
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was sighted off the "Malguire Islands" whilst on a voyage from [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]] to [[Lima]], Peru. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.<ref name=Times150350>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 March 1850 |page=8 |issue=20437 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Messenger'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was wrecked on the Gunfleet or the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her eight crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland to [[London]].<ref name=S030149/><ref name=NC050149/><ref name=Benham/><ref name=AJ100149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=10 January 1849 |issue=5270 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Thetis'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Leman Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of [[Lincolnshire]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Königsberg]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] to [[Limerick]].<ref name=MP100149/>
}}
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|ship=''William Jarvis'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], United States. She was on a voyage from New Orleans to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=S030249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=3 February 1849 |issue=7637 }}</ref>
}}
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==3 January==
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|ship=''James'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the [[Belfast Lough]]. She was on a voyage from [[Belfast]] to [[Newry]], [[County Antrim]]. She was refloated and put back to Belfast in a leaky condition.<ref name=Times080149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=8 January 1849 |page=3 |issue=20067 |column=A }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Jeune Marie'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[chasse-marée]] was driven into ''Petronelle'' ({{flag|Belgium}}) and was abandoned in [[Whitesand Bay]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Petronelle'' She subsequently drifted out to sea.<ref name=Times080149/><ref name=S060149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=6 January 1849 |issue=7613 }}</ref> ''Jeune Marie'' was subsequently taken in to the [[Isles of Scilly]] in a derelict condition.<ref name=MP090149/>
}}
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|ship=''Maria''
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship was sighted in the [[Øresund]] whilst on a voyage from [[Königsberg]] to [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.<ref name=CM140549>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=14 May 1849 |issue=19884 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Oswald'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Tiabbreng". She was on a voyage from [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Holbæk]].<ref name=CM220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Pioneer'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire]] to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], United States.<ref name=MP080249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=8 February 1849 |issue=23455 }}</ref>
}}
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==4 January==
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|ship=''Cincinnati'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] off [[Faial Island]], [[Azores]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Baltimore, Maryland]] to [[Dublin]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref name=MP250149/>
}}
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|ship=''Experiment'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged on the [[Scroby Sands]], [[Norfolk]]. She was refloated.<ref name=MC060149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=6 January 1849 |issue=24715 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Skjald''
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The [[brigantine]] was wrecked on a reef in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|34|57|30|S|56|05|00|W}}).<ref name=Times171049>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=17 October 1849 |page=7 |issue=20309 |column=A }}</ref>
}}
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==5 January==
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|ship=''George Armstrong'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the [[Hooghly River]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Calcutta]], [[company rule in India|India]] to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=MP230249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=23 February 1849 |issue=23468 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Grasshopper'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on [[The Manacles]]. She was refloated and beached at [[Helford, Cornwall|Helford]], [[Cornwall]]. She was on a voyage from [[Limerick]] to [[Truro]], Cornwall.<ref name=MP090149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=9 January 1849 |issue=23429 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Grecian'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at [[Malta]].<ref name=MP170149/>
}}
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|ship=''Omega'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Break Point, [[qing dynasty|China]] with the loss of twelve of the 37 people on board. She was on a voyage from [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] to another port in China.<ref name=MP230349/>
}}
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|ship=''Quicksilver'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck [[The Manacles]]. She was consequently beached at [[Helford, Cornwall|Helford]], [[Cornwall]]. She was on a voyage from [[Cork (city)|Cork]] to Truro and [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]].<ref name=CM220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Saone'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Cape Florida]], [[Florida]]. She was on a voyage from [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] to [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. She was refloated in late January or early February and resumed her voyage.<ref name=Times210249/>
}}
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==6 January==
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|ship=''Cape Packet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire at [[Penang]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]].<ref name=Times260249/>
}}
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==7 January==
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|ship=''Genesee'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The [[barque]] ran aground on the Gingerbread Grounds. Her crew were rescued. She had become a wreck by 20 February.<ref name=MC080349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=8 March 1849 |issue=24767 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Maria'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] sank at [[Swansea]], [[Glamorgan]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Pentreath]], [[Cornwall]] to Swansea.<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=S100149/>
}}
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==8 January==
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|ship=''Blossom'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was severely damaged at [[Aberdeen]].<ref name=DN150149>{{Cite news |title=Scotland |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date= January 1849 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Ceylon'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in Ross Bay, [[County Cork]]. She was on a voyage from the [[River Clyde]] to [[New York City|New York]], United States. Twenty-eight people were rescued,<ref name=S110149a>{{Cite news |title=Wreck of the Ceylon |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=11 January 1849 |issue=7617 }}</ref> thirteen drowned.<ref name=CM150149a>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=15 January 1849 |issue=19850 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Industrie'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and sank in the [[Seine]]. She was on a voyage from [[Rouen]], [[Seine-Inférieure]] to [[London]].<ref name=CM150149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Lady Ridley'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was in collision with another vessel and sank off the [[Nore]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=MP100149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=10 January 1849 |issue=23430 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Mansfield'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Johnshaven]], [[Aberdeenshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times150149/>
}}
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|ship=''Sarzeantin'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank at the mouth of the Laq. She was on a voyage from [[Swansea]], [[Glamorgan]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[La Rochelle]], [[Charente-Maritime]].<ref name=MC160149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=16 January 1849 |issue=24723 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Union'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at Aberdeen. Her five crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Stonehaven]], Aberdeenshire.<ref name=Times150149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Disastrous Storm on the East Coast of Scotland |date=15 January 1849 |page=6 |issue=20073 |column=D }}</ref><ref name=CM110149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=11 January 1849 |issue=19849 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Venus'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] struck the pier and ran aground at Aberdeen. She was on a voyage from Hartlepool to Aberdeen.<ref name=GH150149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=15 January 1849 |issue=4796 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Victory'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck the [[Loughor Bridge]], [[Llanelli|Llanelly]], [[Glamorgan]] and sank. She was on a voyage from Aberystwyth to Spitty, Glamorgan.<ref name=S110149b/>
}}
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|ship=''Zwey Gebruder'' 
|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked on [[Scharhörn]].<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
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==9 January==
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|ship=''Ada Alice'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Harmony'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[New York City|New York]], United States.<ref name=DN210249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=21 February 1849 |issue=855 }}</ref><ref name=MC210249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=21 February 1849 |issue=24754 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Bon Père'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven onto the Oyster Rocks, off [[Poole, Dorset]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] and was damaged.<ref name=MC130149/> She was refloated on 12 January.<ref name=S120149/>
}}
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|ship=''Buconnoc'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck the Culperd Rock in the [[Irish Sea]] and was damaged. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to [[Limerick]] She put in to [[Holyhead]], [[Anglesey]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=S110149b/>
}}
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|ship=''Christina'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank, in [[Liverpool Bay]]. Her crew were rescued by the [[tugboat|tug]] ''Express'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Christina'' was on a voyage from [[Newry]], [[County Antrim]] to Liverpool.<ref name=S100149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=10 January 1849 |issue=7616 }}</ref><ref name=MP110149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=11 January 1849 |issue=23431 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Dahlia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Aberdeen]]. Her crew survived.<ref name=Times150149/> Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Arbroath]], [[Forfarshire]].<ref name=AJ170149>{{Cite news |title=The Late Disastrous Storm |newspaper=The Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=7 January 1849 |issue=5271 }}</ref> She was refloated on 24 January and taken in to Aberdeen.<ref name=S260149/>
}}
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|ship=''Deux Frères'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by ''Swordfish'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Deux Frères'' was on a voyage from New York to [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]].<ref name=CM220149/><ref name=Times210249>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=21 February 1849 |page=7 |issue=20105 |column=F }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Diadem'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged on the Burbo Bank, in Liverpool Bay. She was on a voyage from New York to Liverpool. She was refloated and taken in to Liverpool in a leaky condition.<ref name=MP110149/>
}}
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|ship=''Elizabeth'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked {{convert|1|nmi|km}} north of Aberdeen with the loss of three of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to [[Leith]], [[Lothian]].<ref name=DN150149/><ref name=Times150149/><ref name=GH150149/><ref name=MC130149/> She was refloated on 24 January and taken in to Aberdeen.<ref name=S260149/>
}}
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|ship=''Gulph'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near [[Lymington]], [[Hampshire]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Swanage]], [[Dorset]] to [[London]].<ref name=CM180149/><ref name=Times160149/>
}}
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|ship=''Hart'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} [[Isle of Man]]
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at [[Laxey]].<ref name=CM220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Integrity'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of [[County Wicklow]] and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=MC120149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=12 January 1849 |issue=24720 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Isabella'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked north of Aberdeen. Her crew were rescued by the Aberdeen Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from [[Riga]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]] to an Irish port.<ref name=Times150149/><ref name=GH150149/><ref name=MC130149/>
}}
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|ship=''Louise'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore at Limerick.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=MC130149/>
}}
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|ship=''Maria Sophie'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked on [[Skagen]]. Her crew were rescued She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]], United Kingdom to [[Holbæk]].<ref name=MP030249/>
}}
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|ship=''Mary O{{'}}Neile'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak in the Irish Sea. She was taken in tow by the [[tug]] ''Diamond'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was beached at [[Egremont, Merseyside|Egremont]], Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Newry to Liverpool.<ref name=S110149/>
}}
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|ship=''Panama'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Limerick.<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Witte Leeuw'' 
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Limerick.<ref name=Times150149a/> She was on a voyage from [[Rotterdam]], [[South Holland]] to Limerick. She was refloated on 12 January but consequently sank.<ref name=S130149/>
}}
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==10 January==
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|ship=''Anna Maria'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near [[Holyhead]], [[Anglesey]] with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Dordrecht]], [[South Holland]], Netherlands.<ref name=DN130149/>
}}
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|ship=''Catherine'', or<br>''Katherine'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore near [[Peterhead]], [[Aberdeenshire]].<ref name=Times150149/> Her crew were rescued by [[Manby Mortar|rocket apparatus]].<ref name=AJ170149/> She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Aberdeen]].<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Charles'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at [[Formby]], Lancashire.<ref name=S120149/>
}}
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|ship=''Competitor'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on a reef off [[Punta Mala]], Spain. She was on a voyage from [[Livorno]], [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]] to [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.<ref name=CM290149/>
}}
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|ship=''Douglas'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} [[Isle of Man]]
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven into ''Oneca'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was consequently beached at [[Seacombe]], [[Cheshire]].<ref name=S120149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=12 January 1849 |issue=7618 }}</ref> She was refloated on 12 January and taken in to Liverpool.<ref name=DN130149/>
}}
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|ship=''Duchess of Gloucester'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Kilkeel]], [[County Down]].<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=BNL160149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=16 January 1849 |issue=11523 }}</ref> She was on a voyage from [[Glasgow]], [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]] to [[Gloucester]].<ref name=MC130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Economy'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Porthdinllaen]], [[Caernarfonshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Effort'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was wrecked near [[New Slains Castle]], Aberdeenshire with the loss of all hands, about seven lives.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=CM150149>{{Cite news |title=Dreadful Storm and Loss of Life and Property |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=15 January 1849 |issue=19850 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Fanny'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at "Traethsarth", [[Cardiganshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Dublin]] to [[Gloucester]]. She was refloated on 12 January and taken in to [[New Quay]], Cardiganshire.<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Golden Eagle'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship collided with ''Emigrant'' and capsized at [[Seacombe]], [[Cheshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Nassau, Bahamas]] to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=MP110149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Harriet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore in the [[Hilbre Islands]], Cheshire.<ref name=S120149/> She was on a voyage from Liverpool to [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]]. She was refloated on 12 January and put back to Liverpool.<ref name=DN130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Helena'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Virginian'' ({{flag|United States|1848}}). ''Helena'' was on a voyaged from [[New York City|New York]], United States to [[Galway]].<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Hero'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore, capsized and was wrecked near Peterhead with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]] to [[Fraserburgh]], Aberdeenshire.<ref name=Times150149/><ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=S120149/><ref name=BNL160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Isabella'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked at the mouth of the [[River Ythan]].<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Janet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at "Auchingale", [[Caithness]]. She was on a voyage from [[Port Gordon]], [[Moray]]shire to [[Scrabster]], Caithness.<ref name=AJ170149/><ref name=S150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''London'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at Peterhead. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=AJ170149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Margaret'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on the [[Scroby Sands]], in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Norfolk]]. She was on a voyage from [[Poole, Dorset]] to [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. She was refloated and taken in to [[Great Yarmouth]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=S110149b/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Maria'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near [[Westport, County Mayo]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Galway]].<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Pauline'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in [[Tor Bay]]. She was on a voyage from [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]] to [[Martinique]].<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Pheasant'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore and wrecked in Duncan's Bay with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[South Shields]], [[County Durham]] to [[Barbadoes]].<ref name=CM180149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=18 January 1849 |issue=19851 }}</ref><ref name=S150149/><ref name=NC190149/><ref name=AJ240149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Phœnix'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] was driven ashore near Formby.<ref name=MC130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Prosperous'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[County Durham]]. She was refloated.<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Scotsman'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] foundered in the North Sea off [[Buchan Ness]], [[Aberdeenshire]] with the loss of all hands.<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=AJ170149/><ref name=MC130149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Soeridderen'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at "Wonlesser". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Helsingør]].<ref name=Times230149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''St. Pierre'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] ran aground on the Foreness Rock, [[Margate]], [[Kent]], United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from [[Honfleur]], [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]] to London.<ref name=S110149b>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=11 January 1849 |issue=7617 }}</ref> She was refloated on 11 January and anchored off [[Kingsgate, Kent]].<ref name=S120149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Vivid'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[Humber Keel]] was wrecked in [[Runswick Bay]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=CM180149/><ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Vorwarts'' 
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the [[Irish Sea]] off the coast of [[Lancashire]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from [[Pillau]] to [[Liverpool]], Lancashire.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=S120149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''William Oughtsted'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Deal, Kent]]. She was on a voyage from [[Great Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]] to [[Shoreham-by-Sea]], [[Sussex]].<ref name=MP110149/> She was refloated and put in to [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]].<ref name=S110149b/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==11 January==
{{shipwreck list begin |date=11 January 1849 |sort=}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Agnes Lee'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore, capsized and was wrecked at [[Cardigan, Ceredigion|Cardigan]] with the loss of ten of the 14 people on board. She was on a voyage from [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]] to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=NC190149/><ref name=Cardigan>{{cite web |url=http://www.glen-johnson.co.uk/cardigan-district-shipwrecks-and-lifeboat-service/ |title=Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service |date=23 July 2013 |publisher=Glen Johnson |access-date=1 February 2015}}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Albion'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[lugger]] sank off [[North Foreland]], [[Kent]] with the loss of all but one of her nine crew. She was going to the aid of a vessel in distress.<ref name=CM150149a/><ref name=BNL190149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Ariel'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship capsized at [[Limerick]].<ref name=FJ150149>{{Cite news |title=Storm and Shipwrecks |newspaper=Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser |location=Dublin |date=15 January 1849 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Breeze'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at [[Rhyl]], [[Denbighshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Wicklow]] to Liverpool.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=DN130149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence - Mails |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=13 January 1849 |issue=822 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Caledonia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore east of [[Whitstable]], Kent.<ref name=S120149/> She was refloated on 24 January and taken in to Whitstable the next day.<ref name=Times300149a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 January 1849 |page=7 |issue=20086 |column=B }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Diana Grace, and<br>Phœnix'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ships collided in the [[English Channel]] off [[Dungeness (headland)|Dungeness]], Kent and both sank. Their crews were rescued. ''Diana Grace'' was on a voyage from [[London]] to Liverpool. ''Phœnix'' was on a voyage from London to [[Hastings]], [[Sussex]].<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Dolphin'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Cape Poge Light|Cape Poge]], [[Massachusetts]], United States. She was on a voyage from [[Saint John, New Brunswick]] to [[New York City|New York]]. She was refloated and completed her voyage.<ref name=CM220249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=22 February 1849 |issue=19861 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Grace'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship, a [[schooner]] or [[brig]] was beached at [[Sheerness]], Kent. She was refloated and taken in to Sheerness.<ref name=HP190149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Harriet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] ran aground on the Middle Patch, in the [[Irish Sea]] off the coast of [[Denbighshire]]. She was refloated and taken in to the [[River Dee, Wales|River Dee]].<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Jeune Aimée'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Rossbeigh]], [[County Kerry]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Bordeaux]], [[Gironde]] to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], United Kingdom.<ref name=S150149/><ref name=MP160149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=16 January 1849 |issue=23435 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Jong Antonia'' 
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship was in collision with a [[schooner]] and was beached at [[Fishguard]], [[Pembrokeshire]], United Kingdom.<ref name=S150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''La Louisa'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground and was severely damaged at Limerick.<ref name=FJ150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Lemiena'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship capsized at Limerick.<ref name=FJ150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Liberal'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the West Bank, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent.<ref name=S130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Liverpool'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Whitstable.<ref name=MC130149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Mary'', and<br>''Velocity''
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=''Mary'' was in collision with ''Velocity'' in the North Sea off the coast of [[Suffolk]]. All bar ''Velocity''{{'}}s captain jumped aboard ''Mary'', which subsequently came ashore at [[Pakefield]]. All on board were rescued. ''Mary'' was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]] to [[London]].<ref name=NC190149>{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=The Newcastle Courant etc |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=19 January 1849 |issue=9085 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Mary Franks'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Grimsby]], [[Lincolnshire]]. She was refloated.<ref name=MP150149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=15 January 1849 |issue=23434 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Neva'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] was wrecked at [[Granville, Manche]], France with the loss of six of her nine crew, and also five would-be rescuers from {{ship|French aviso|Passe Partout|1846|2}} ({{navy|France}}).<ref name=Times200149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=France |date=20 January 1849 |page=5 |issue=20079 |column=A-B }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Oak'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was refloated.<ref name=MP150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Palermo'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore at [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]]. She was later refloated and towed in to the [[River Tyne]].<ref name=S120149/><ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Prosperous'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[County Durham]]. She was refloated.<ref name=MC130149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=13 January 1849 |issue=24721 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Rapid'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship capsized at Limerick.<ref name=MC130149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Rapid'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Girdler Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of Kent. She was on a voyage from [[Galway]] to London. She was refloated and taken in to [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|The Downs]].<ref name=MC130149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Robert and Mary'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of [[Essex]]. She was refloated and put in to [[Sheerness]], Kent.<ref name=CM150149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Skea'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Angle, Pembrokeshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Chepstow]], [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Susan and Harry'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Grimsby. She was refloated.<ref name=MP150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Sylph'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Hartlepool. She was later refloated and towed in to the River Tyne.<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Unity'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The two-masted [[schooner]] was wrecked at [[Port Seton]], [[Lothian]] with the loss of two of her four crew. She was on a voyage from [[Clackmannan]] to the [[Moray Firth]].<ref name=CM150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Virginie'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship sank off [[Cherbourg]], [[Seine-Inférieure]]. She was on a voyage from [[Lézardrieux]], [[Côtes-du-Nord]] to [[Portsmouth]], [[Hampshire]], United Kingdom.<ref name=MP170149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''William and Mary'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Porthdinllaen]], [[Caernarfonshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Youghal]], [[County Cork]] to Liverpool.<ref name=Times160149/> She was refloated on 24 January and taken in to Porthdinllaen.<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Williams'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked on the Cairn Rock, off the coast of [[Wigtownshire]] with the loss of all hands.<ref name=BNL190149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=19 January 1849 |issue=11524 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==12 January==
{{shipwreck list begin |date=12 January 1849 |sort=}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Alice'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Walter R. Jones'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Alice'' was on a voyage from [[Baltimore, Maryland]], United States to [[Galway]].<ref name=Times210249/><ref name=Times060249/><ref name=BNL090249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Atlantic'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Ardrossan]], [[Ayrshire]]. All on board, more than 400 people, were rescued by the [[tugboat|steam tug]] {{PS|Conqueror|1840|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Atlantic'' was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], United States.<ref name=Times010249/><ref name=FJ300149>{{Cite news |title=Total Loss of an Emigrant Ship |newspaper=Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser |location=Dublin |date=30 January 1849 }}</ref><ref name=AJ070249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Boykett'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Formby]], [[Lancashire]] with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from [[Bordeaux]], [[Gironde]] to [[Liverpool]], Lancashire.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=S130149/><ref name=DN130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Carlotta'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The [[barque]] capsized at [[Limerick]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref name=MP170149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Enchantress'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran around on the [[Goodwin Sands]], [[Kent]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Zakynthos]], [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] to [[London]]. She was refloated and taken in to [[Ramsgate]], Kent, where she arrived on 15 January.<ref name=MP170149/><ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=MC130149a>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=13 January 1849 |issue=24721 |edition=Evening }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''European'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Kattendyk. She was on a voyage from [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], United States to [[Antwerp]], Belgium. She was refloated and taken in to Antwerp.<ref name=CM180149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Independence'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Brake Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Kent]]. She was on a voyage from [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] to [[Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne]], [[Pas-de-Calais]], France. She was refloated but consequently had to be beached on the Kent cost. She was subsequently taken in to [[Ramsgate]], Kent.<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=S150149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''John Quayle'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} [[Isle of Man]]
|desc=The ship was wrecked near [[Parkgate, Cheshire]].<ref name=S130149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=13 January 1849 |issue=7619 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Mary'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Lowestoft]], [[Suffolk]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=MC130149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==13 January==
{{shipwreck list begin |date=13 January 1849 |sort=}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Caledonia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Cross Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Norfolk]] with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[London]] to [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]]. She was refloated and taken in to [[Great Yarmouth]], Norfolk, where she arrived on 15 January.<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=MP170149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Catherine and Mary'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[flatboat|flat]] was driven ashore at [[Rhyl]], [[Denbighshire]].<ref name=Times150149a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 January 1849 |page=7 |issue=20073 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Dickey Sam'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore between [[Formby]] and [[Waterloo, Merseyside|Waterloo]], [[Lancashire]] with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], Lancashire to [[Lima]], Peru.<ref name=S150149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 January 1849 |issue=7620 }}</ref> She was refloated on 29 January with assistance from {{PS|Defiance|1841|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).<ref name=LM300149>{{Cite news |title=Local Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=30 January 1849 |issue=2061 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Edmond'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was lost off [[Paraiab]], [[Empire of Brazil|Brazil]]. her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]] to [[Valparaíso]], Chile.<ref name=MP270249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=27 February 1849 |issue=23471 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Enigma'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] was lost in the [[English Channel]] off [[Dungeness (headland)|Dungeness]], [[Kent]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=MC270149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Eugine'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the [[Gulf of Saros]]. She was on a voyage from [[Denizli, Cyprus|Xeros]], [[Cyprus]] to [[Marseille]], [[Bouches-du-Rhône]].<ref name=MP010249/><ref name=LWN040249>{{Cite news |title=Maritime Casualties |newspaper=Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper |location=London |date=4 February 1849 |issue=324 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship={{RMS|Forth|1841|6}} 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Alacranes, {{convert|70|nmi|km}} off [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], [[Republic of New Granada]]. All on board survived.<ref name=Times090349>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Wreck of the Forth |date=9 March 1849 |page=5 |issue=20119 |column=E }}</ref><ref name=Forth>{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/royalmail.shtml |title=Royal Mail Steam Packet Company / Royal Mail Lines Limited |publisher=The Ships List |access-date=7 October 2018}}</ref><ref name=Times310349>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=West Indian and Mexican Mails |date=31 March 1849 |page=5 |issue=201138 |column=E-F }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Friends'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on the North Gar, in the North Sea off the coast of [[County Durham]]. She was on a voyage from the [[River Clyde|Clyde]] to [[Sunderland, County Durham]].<ref name=CM180149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Johannes Marinus'' 
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Dungeness. She was on a voyage from [[jakarta|Batavia]], [[Netherlands East Indies]] to a Dutch port. She was refloated.<ref name=Times160149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Lord Hill'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Grimsby]], [[Lincolnshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]] to Sunderland. She was refloated and taken in to Grimsby.<ref name=HP190149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |location=Hull |date=19 January 1849 |issue=3343 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Lucy'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[South Foreland]], Kent. She was on a voyage from [[Antigua]] to London. She was refloated and taken in to Ramsgate.<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Newham'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] capsized at [[Limerick]].<ref name=MP170149/><ref name=NC190149/>
}}
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|ship=''President'' 
|flag={{flag|Belgium}}
|desc=The ship ran aground in the Willems Rek. She was on a voyage from [[Havana]], [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Cuba]] to [[Antwerp]].<ref name=CM180149/>
}}
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|ship=''Quiz'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore in the [[Sea of Marmora]] at "Port Canary", [[Ottoman Empire]], where she was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Constantinople]], Ottoman Empire to [[Cork (city)|Cork]] or [[Falmouth, Cornwall]].<ref name=MP010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Sir William Collings'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on [[Guernsey]], [[Channel Islands]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Guernsey to London.<ref name=CM220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Uneas'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore by ice in the [[Scheldt]] and capsized. She was on a voyage from [[Charleston, South Carolina]] to [[Antwerp]], Belgium.<ref name=Times160149/><ref name=MC160149/>
}}
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==14 January==
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|ship=''Cestrian'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was abandoned in [[Cardigan Bay]]. She was subsequently driven ashore at [[Barmouth]], [[Caernarfonshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Bonny, Nigeria|Bonny]], Africa to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=MP170149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=17 January 1849 |issue=23436 |page=8 }}</ref><ref name=Times220149/><ref name=GH190149/>
}}
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|ship={{PS|James Watt|1831|2}}
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[paddle steamer]] ran aground on the Great Bank of Melsoorden. She was on a voyage from [[Antwerp]], Belgium to [[London]].<ref name=MP170149/>
}}
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==15 January==
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|ship=''Alpine'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was in collision with another vessel and was abandoned in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Uriel'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Alpine'' was on a voyage from [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] to an Irish port.<ref name=Times210249/>
}}
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|ship=''Amicizia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|Empire of Brazil}}
|desc=The ship was attacked by local inhabitants off [[Guimarães, Maranhã]]. Her anchor ropes were cut. She was driven ashore, pillaged and subsequently wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Gibraltar]] to [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref name=Times260249/>
}}
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|ship=''Bonito'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] sprang a leak in the [[North Sea]] and subsequently foundered {{convert|2|nmi|km}} north of the [[Haisborough Sands]]. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from [[South Shields]], [[County Durham]] to [[Maldon, Essex]].<ref name=HP190149/>
}}
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|ship=''Humming Bird'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[Bermuda]]
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], [[British North America]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Trinidad]] to Halifax.<ref name=MP060249/>
}}
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|ship=''Janet Gibson'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Klitmoller", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Kirkcaldy]], [[Fife]] to [[Königsberg]] or [[klaipėda|Memel]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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==16 January==
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|ship=''John and Alice'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[fishing smack]] departed from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] for fishing grounds off the [[Isle of Man]]. Presumed subsequently run down and sunk with the loss of all six crew.<ref name=LM1602049>{{Cite news |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=16 February 1849 |issue=2066 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Victoria'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was in collision with the [[barque]] ''Pascoe Grenfell'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the [[Bristol Channel]] off [[Port Eynon]], [[Glamorgan]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=BC>{{cite web |url=http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |title=A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks |first=Ron |last=Tovey |publisher=Swansea Docks |access-date=17 December 2014 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222065415/http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Gower%20wrecks%20Rons%20write-up%20site.pdf |archive-date=22 December 2014 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''William'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Hurst Castle]], [[Hampshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[London]] to [[Cádiz]], Spain. She was refloated on 19 January and taken in to [[Yarmouth, Isle of Wight]].<ref name=Times220149/>
}}
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==17 January==
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|ship=''Arab'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Zakynthos]], [[United States of the Ionian Islands]]. She was on a voyage from [[Great Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]] to [[Cephalonia]], United States of the Ionian Islands.<ref name=S020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Leo'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck on the Stamford Sand, in the [[North Sea]] and was damaged. She was on a voyage from [[Blyth, Northumberland]] to [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]]. She put in to [[Great Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=Times220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Milo'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] departed from [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] for [[Grangemouth]], [[Stirlingshire]]. No further trace. presumed foundered with the loss of all hands, possibly on 20 January.<ref name=HP090349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |location=Hull |date=9 March 1849 |issue=3350 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Seagull'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Point Lynas]], [[Anglesey]]. She was refloated but was abandoned and sank. She was on a voyage from [[Wexford]] to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=S220149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=22 January 1849 |issue=7626 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Stadt Kolberg'' 
|flag=[[File:POL Kołobrzeg flag.svg|22px|border]] [[Kolberg]] 
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and sank on "Horsoe". Her crew were rescuedl She was on a voyage from [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Stettin]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Theodor'' 
|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on [[Heligoland]]. She was on a voyage from "Porto Plata" to Hamburg.<ref name=Times230149/>
}}
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==18 January==
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|ship=''Britannia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Ballyhealy", [[County Wexford]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire]] to [[Barbadoes]].<ref name=Times220149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 January 1849 |page=8 |issue=20079 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Franz'' 
|flag=[[File:POL Szczecin flag.svg|22px]] [[Stettin]] 
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near "Vesterklit", Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to Stettin.<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Gem'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged at "Killeries", [[County Wexford]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[New York City|New York]] to [[Galway]].<ref name=S220149/><ref name=Times240149/> She was refloated on 21 January but had to be beached.<ref name=S230149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=23 January 1849 |issue=7627 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Retriever'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground and was damaged in the Sound of Scarp, [[Outer Hebrides]]. She was on a voyage from [[Saint John, New Brunswick]], [[British North America]] to [[Dundee]], [[Forfarshire]].<ref name=AJ070249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=7 February 1849 |issue=5274 }}</ref> She was refloated on 4 May and resumed her voyage, but consequently put in to [[derry|Londonderry]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=GH140549>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=14 May 1849 |issue=4830 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Rose in June'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Trinity Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Lincolnshire]] and sank. She was on a voyage from [[Wisbech]], [[Cambridgeshire]] to [[Wakefield]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. She was refloated and taken in to [[Grimsby]], Lincolnshire.<ref name=Times220149/>
}}
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|ship=''Selvstændingheden'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was lost off "Titterodderne" with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], United Kingdom to [[Aalesund (town)|Aalesund]].<ref name=MP130249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=13 February 1849 |issue=23459 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Thomas'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at [[Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne]], [[Pas-de-Calais]], France. She was on a voyage from [[Blyth, Northumberland]] to Boulogne.<ref name=Times220149/> She was refloated the next day and taken in to Boulogne.<ref name=NC020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Veracity'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore in the [[River South Esk]]. She was on a voyage from [[Dundee]], [[Forfarshire]] to [[Leith]], [[Lothian]].<ref name=CM220149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=22 January 1849 |issue=19852 }}</ref> She was refloated.<ref name=NC020249/>
}}
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==19 January==
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|ship=''Faize''
|flag=[[file:Flag of the British East India Company (1801).svg|22px]] [[Company rule in India|India]]
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire. All 33 people on board took to the boats. They were rescued on 23 January by ''Maidstone'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).<ref name=Times200449>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=20 April 1849 |page=8 |issue=20155 |column=D }}</ref><ref name=MP190449>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=19 April 1849 |issue=23515 |page=8 }}</ref><ref name=LM200449>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=20 April 1849 |issue=2084 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Menado'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in a [[hurricane]] at "Menao".<ref name=MP230349>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=23 March 1849 |issue=23492 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Proteus'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on the Long Bank, in the [[Irish Sea]] off the coast of [[County Wexford]]. She floated off but consequently sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[British North America]].<ref name=Times240149/><ref name=FJ300149a>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser |location=Dublin |date=30 January 1849 }}</ref>
}}
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==20 January==
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|ship=''Armin'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in [[The Downs (ship anchorage)|The Downs]]. She was on a voyage from [[Neath]], [[Glamorgan]] to [[Hamburg]]. She was subsequently beached near [[Sandown Castle, Kent]].<ref name=Times230149/> ''Armin'' was taken in to [[Ramsgate]], Kent on 22 January.<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
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|ship=''Mantura'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] struck the North Rock, off the coast of [[County Antrim]], and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Leith]], [[Lothian]] to [[Malta]].<ref name=Times230149/><ref name=BNL230149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=23 January 1849 |issue=11525 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Ocean'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[steamship]] was driven ashore in the [[River Clyde|Clyde]] {{convert|8|nmi|km}} downstream of [[Greenock]], [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]]. She was on a voyage from Greenock to [[Dublin]].<ref name=MP240149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=24 January 1849 |issue=23442 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Sea Nymph'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New Zealand]]
|desc=The ship was damaged by fire at [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]].<ref name=CM210549>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=21 May 1849 |issue=19886 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Sophia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck the pier and was beached at [[Ayr]]. She was on a voyage from [[Belfast]], [[County Antrim]] to Ayr.<ref name=MC270149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=27 January 1849 |issue=24733 }}</ref><ref name=Times270149/> She was refloated on 27 January and taken in to Ayr.<ref name=NC020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Victoria'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Essex]]. She was refloated and resumed her voyage.<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
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==21 January==
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|ship=''Adventure'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore in [[Lough Foyle]].<ref name=MP250149/>
}}
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|ship=''Heir Apparent'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Kilrush]], [[County Clare]]. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Limerick]].<ref name=Times240149/> She was refloated on 29 January.<ref name=S020249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=2 February 1849 |issue=7636 |page=7 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Invincible'' 
|flag=[[File:Free Territory Trieste Flag.svg|22px]] [[Trieste]] 
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Cullenstown]], [[County Wexford]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. She was on a voyage from [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], United Kingdom.<ref name=MP250149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=25 January 1849 |issue=23443 |page=8 }}</ref><ref name=FJ300149a/><ref name=S240149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 January 1849 |issue=7628 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Kate'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New Zealand]]
|desc=The [[schooner]] struck rocks at [[Open Bay]], on the South Island's [[West Coast, New Zealand|West Coast]], New Zealand, with the loss of one crew member.<ref name="SNZD">Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) ''Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936.'' Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. pp. 48–49.</ref> 
}}
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|ship=''Nancy'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the [[Isle of May]], [[Fife]] with the loss of a crew member.<ref name=S260149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 January 1849 |issue=7630 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Norna'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at [[Limekilns]], [[Fife]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Aberdeen]] to [[Charleston, South Carolina]], United States.<ref name=AJ240149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=24 January 1849 |issue=5272 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Porteous'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Long Bank Sand, in the [[Irish Sea]] off the coast of [[County Wexford]]. She floated off and consequently foundered. Her crew were rescued. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], [[British North America]].<ref name=LM230149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=23 January 1849 |issue=2059 |edition=Second }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Unicorn'' <!--{{PS|Unicorn|1849|2}}?-->
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[paddle steamer]] collided with the steamship ''Rob Roy'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} and sank in the [[North Sea]] {{convert|50|nmi|km}} off the ''[[Newarp Lightship]]'' ([[File:Trinity House Ensign (pre-1937).svg|22px]] [[Trinity House]] ). Her crew were rescued by ''Rob Roy''. ''Unicorn'' was on a voyage from [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] to [[Antwerp]], Belgium.<ref name=Times270149/><ref name=Times241149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Admiralty Court, Friday, Nov. 23. |date=24 November 1849 |page=7 |issue=20342 |column=C }}</ref><ref name=MP241149>{{Cite news |title=Admiralty Court - Friday, Nov. 23. |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=24 November 1849 |issue=23702 |page=6 }}</ref>
}}
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==22 January==
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|ship=''Alexander'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked  on [[Valentia Island|Beynis Island, Valentia Harbour]], [[County Cork]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Oporto]], Portugal to [[Cork (city)|Cork]].<ref name=S260149/>
}}
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|ship=''Great Britain'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore by ice in the [[Delaware River]]. She was on a voyage from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], United States to an Irish port.<ref name=BNL090249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Belfast News-Letter |location=Belfast |date=9 February 1849 |issue=11530 }}</ref> She was refloated and put back to Philadelphia for repairs.<ref name=CM220249/>
}}
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|ship=''Jeune Anyse'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was in collision with ''Augusta'' ([[File:Flag of Stralsund.svg|22px]] [[Stralsund]]) and was abandoned in the [[English Channel]] off the coast of [[Pas-de-Calais]]. She was on a voyage from [[London]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Caen]], [[Calvados (department)|Calvados]].<ref name=Times300149a/> ''Jeune Anyse'' was towed in to [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] on 25 January.<ref name=S290149/>
}}
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|ship=''Napoleon'' 
|flag={{flag|Norway|1844}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Jadder Bank, in the [[North Sea]] with the loss of two of her crew.<ref name=MP140249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=14 February 1849 |issue=23460 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Pheasant'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Goose Island. She was on a voyage from [[Saint John's, Newfoundland]] to [[Saint John, New Brunswick]]<ref name=CM090449>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=9 April 1849 |issue=19874 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Tigress'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[East Indiaman]] was driven ashore and wrecked west of the Shakespeare Cliff, near [[Dover]], Kent. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Ceylon]] to [[London]]. The local inhabitants plundered the wreck.<ref name=Times230149/><ref name=Times240149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 January 1849 |page=7 |issue=20081 |column=F }}</ref><ref name=Times300149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Wrecking on the Southern Coast |date=30 January 1849 |page=5 |issue=20086 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
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==23 January==
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|ship=''Albertina'' 
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at [[klaipėda|Memel]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Memel to [[Portsmouth]], [[Hampshire]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Alpine'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was in collision with another vessel in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. She was abandoned the next day. Her crew were rescued by ''Uriel'' ({{flag|United States|1848}}). ''Alpine'' was on a voyage from [[New York City|New York]], United States to an Irish port.<ref name=LM230349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=23 February 1849 |issue=2068 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Courier'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore at [[Beckfoot]], [[Cumberland]]. She was on a voyage from [[Pentewan]], [[Cornwall]] to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=S260149/><ref name=S310149/>
}}
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|ship=''Hanna and Marie'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship foundered off [[Fotö]], Sweden with the loss of three of her five crew. She was on a voyage from [[Leith]], [[Lothian]], United Kingdom to [[Copenhagen]].<ref name=MP060249/>
}}
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|ship=''Hymen'' 
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on "Homum". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]], United Kingdom to [[Hamburg]].<ref name=Times060249/>
}}
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|ship=''Marys'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven out to sea from [[Souter Point]], [[County Durham]].<ref name=Times270149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=27 January 1849 |page=2 |issue=20084 |column=E }}</ref><ref name=MP260149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=21 January 1849 |issue=23444 }}</ref> She was subsequently taken in to [[Middlesbrough]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], where she arrived on 29 January.<ref name=S310149/>
}}
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|ship=''Norma'' 
|flag={{flag|Portugal|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was wrecked at the mouth of the [[Douro]]. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Oporto]] to [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Empire of Brazil|Brazil]].<ref name=Times300149a/><ref name=Times010249/><ref name=MC300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Velocity'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked between the mouths of the [[Guadarranque]] and the [[Palmones (river)|Palmones]]. She was on a voyage from [[Saint John's, Newfoundland]] to [[Valencia]], Spain.<ref name=Times060249>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 February 1849 |page=7 |issue=20092 |column=F }}</ref> ''Velocity'' was consequently condemned.<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==24 January==
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|ship=''Argonaut'' 
|flag={{flag|Bremen}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on [[Düne]], [[Heligoland]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[New York City|New York]], United States to Bremen.<ref name=Times300149a/><ref name=MP300149>{{Cite news |title=Harburgh, Jan. 26. |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=30 January 1849 |issue=23447 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Benjamin Scott'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near [[Saltfleet]], [[Lincolnshire]].<ref name=S290149/><ref name=CM010249/> She was on a voyage from [[London]] to [[Goole]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].<ref name=S300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Dorothea'' 
|flag={{Flag|Bremen}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on Heligoland. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times300149/><ref name=MP300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Elizabeth'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] ran aground on the Boulmer Rocks, [[Northumberland]]. She was refloated but was again driven ashore and wrecked.<ref name=AJ070249/><ref name=MC270149/>
}}
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|ship=''Elizabeth and Sarah'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked on the Rhomigyr Rocks, off the coast of [[Anglesey]]. She was on a voyage from [[Cork (city)|Cork]] to [[Bangor, Caernarfonshire]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Hugh'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore in Derryoge Bay, [[County Down]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Dublin]] to [[Trinidad]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Julia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was abandoned off the [[Farne Islands]], [[Northumberland]]. Her crew were rescued by ''Wanderer'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Julia'' was on a voyage from [[Aberdeen]] to [[Sunderland, County Durham]].<ref name=CM290149/><ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Reform'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The crewless [[smack (ship)|smack]] was driven out to sea from the [[Belfast Lough]]. She was on a voyage from [[Inverness]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=S270149/> ''Reform'' was towed in to [[Whitehaven]], [[Cumberland]] on 25 January.<ref name=CM290149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=29 January 1849 |issue=19854 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Rover'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked {{convert|2|nmi|km}} west of [[Boulogne-sur-Mer|Boulogne]], [[Pas-de-Calais]], France. She was on a voyage from [[Portsmouth]], [[Hampshire]] to [[Great Yarmouth]], [[Norfolk]].<ref name=MC270149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==25 January==
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|ship=''Britannia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Wicklow Banks, in the [[Irish Sea]]. She was on a voyage from [[Wexford]] to [[Preston, Lancashire]].<ref name=MP290149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=29 January 1849 |issue=23446 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Ceres'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the [[North Sea]] off [[Lowestoft]], [[Suffolk]] with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by the [[brig]] ''Beta'' ([[File:Civil flag of Oldenburg.svg|22px]] [[Grand Duchy of Oldenburg]]). ''Ceres'' was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]] to [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]].<ref name=S010249/><ref name=HP020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Eirion'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] was driven ashore near [[Holywood, County Down]]. She was on a voyage from [[Glasgow]], [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=S270149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=27 January 1849 |issue=7631 }}</ref> She was refloated on 26 January and taken in to [[Belfast]], [[County Antrim]] for repairs.<ref name=S300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Leander'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at [[Vila Nova de Portimão]], Portugal. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=CM190249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=19 February 1849 |issue=19860 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Mate''
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New Zealand]]
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the [[Open Bay Islands]] with the loss of a crew member.<ref name=Times220649>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 June 1849 |page=7 |issue=20209 |column=F }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Revenge'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brigantine]] foundered in the [[North Sea]] off [[Flamborough Head]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].<ref name=Times010249/> Her crew had been taken off previously by the [[galiot]] ''Neptune'' ({{flag|Kingdom of Hanover|civil}}). She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Southampton]], [[Hampshire]].<ref name=Times060249/>
}}
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|ship=''Sirion'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] was driven ashore near Holywood. She was on a voyage from [[Glasgow]], [[Renfrewshire (historic)|Renfrewshire]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==26 January==
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|ship=''Charles Fleming'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run aground in Prince's Bay, [[Tobago]] and was damaged. She was on a voyage from [[London]] to Tobago.<ref name=CM190349/>
}}
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|ship=''James and Elizabeth'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at [[Skinburness]], [[Cumberland]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Maryport]], [[Cumberland]] to [[Belfast]], [[County Antrim]].<ref name=S290149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=26 January 1849 |issue=7632 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Naples'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Aberfeoll", [[Pembrokeshire]]. She was on a voyage from [[Boston, Lincolnshire]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Nathanis'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was in collision with another vessel and capsized with the loss of five of the eight people on board. Survivors were rescued by the [[schooner]] ''Winesota'' ({{flag|United States|1848}}). ''Nathanis'' was on a voyage from [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] to [[Boston, Massachusetts]].<ref name=GH230249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=23 February 1849 |issue=4807 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Rebecca'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] foundered in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] off [[Cape St. Vincent]], Portugal. Her crew were rescued by the [[barque]] ''Harmonie'' ({{flagcountry|Russian Empire}}).<ref name=Times060249a>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Mediterranean |date=6 February 1849 |page=8 |issue=20092 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Sophie Maria'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef north west of "Vaederoe". She was on a voyage from [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Marstal]].<ref name=CM120249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=12 February 1849 |issue=19858 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==27 January==
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|ship=''Angler'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sands, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Essex]]. She was refloated and made for [[Harwich]], Essex but consequently sank. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=MC300149>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=30 January 1849 |issue=24735 }}</ref> ''Angler'' was on a voyage from [[Dundee]], [[Forfarshire]] to [[London]].<ref name=S300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Appoline'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore at [[Gibraltar]]. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Jamaica. She was refloated with assistance from {{HMS|Polyphemus|1840|6}} ({{navy|UK}}).<ref name=CM080249/><ref name=Times060249/><ref name=Times060249a/>
}}
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|ship=''Arcadian'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the North Bull, in the [[Irish Sea]]. She was refloated the next day and taken in to [[Dundalk]], [[County Louth]].<ref name=Times010249/><ref name=S310149/>
}}
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|ship=''Archibald'' 
|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was wrecked on the Big Scaurs Rocks, in the [[Bay of Luce]]. Three of her crew were rescued, eight took to a boat.<ref name=MP020249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=2 February 1849 |issue=23450 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Ernaad''
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and damaged in the Whitby Passage. She was on a voyage from [[Moulmein]], [[British rule in Burma|Burma]] to [[Calcutta]], [[company rule in India|India]].<ref name=Times200449/> She was refloated on 6 March.<ref name=CM280549>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=28 May 1849 |issue=19888 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Jacques Laffitte'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near "Poulequien". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Marennes, Charente-Maritime]] to [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref name=MP030249/>
}}
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|ship=''John Gilpin'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked on the Second Bocas. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=CM190349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=19 March 1849 |issue=19868 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Lady Kenmare'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in the [[Firth of Clyde]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the [[river Clyde|Clyde]] to [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire]].<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Scamander'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New South Wales]]
|desc=The [[brig]] was wrecked on a reef off the [[Isle of Pines (New Caledonia)|Isle of Pines]], [[New Caledonia]] with the loss of seventeen of her 21 crew.<ref name=SG240349>{{Cite news |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161034603 |title=Wreck of the Brig Scamander and loss of Seventeen Lives |newspaper=The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List |location=Sydney |date=24 March 1849 |page=75 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Unicorn'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] collided with the [[clipper]] ''Nonsuch'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank in the Swin, off the coast of [[Essex]] with the loss of all but her captain from her four crew. She was on a voyage from [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] to the [[River Thames]].<ref name=Times300149a/><ref name=CM010249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=1 February 1849 |issue=19855 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==28 January==
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|ship=''Brooke'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on [[Tenerife]], [[Canary Islands]] with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from [[Bonny, Nigeria|Bonny]], Africa to [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]].<ref name=Times260249>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=26 February 1849 |page=6 |issue=20109 |column=F }}</ref><ref name=LM230249a>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=23 February 1849 |issue=2068 |edition=Third }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Dracut'' 
|flag={{flag|United States|1848}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Nauset". She was on a voyage from [[Machias, Maine]] to [[Madeira]].<ref name=Times210249/><ref name=CM220249/>
}}
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|ship=''Iris'', or<br>''Trio'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck rocks and sank off [[Wexford]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] to Wexford.<ref name=Times010249/><ref name=S310149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Perseverance'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at [[St. Leonard's-on-Sea]], [[Sussex]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=S010249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==29 January==
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|ship=''Abraham'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Suffolk]]. She was refloated and taken in to Handfleet Water.<ref name=Benham/><ref name=S300149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 January 1849 |issue=7633 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Achilles'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near [[Staithes]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Admiral Hood'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Bridlington]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].<ref name=S300149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Barbara'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship struck rocks in Gun's Island Bay. She was refloated and put back to [[Strangford]], [[County Antrim]].<ref name=S030249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Bee'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore south of [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]].<ref name=MP310149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=31 January 1849 |issue=23448 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Compton'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The abandoned ship was driven ashore and wrecked on [[Vatersay]], [[Outer Hebrides]].<ref name=S150249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 February 1849 |issue=7647 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Cubana'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Barrow Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of [[Norfolk]]. She was on a voyage from [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] to London. She was refloated and put in to [[Great Yarmouth]], Norfolk.<ref name=S300149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''{{PS|Defiance|1841|2}}'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[paddle steamer|paddle]] [[tugboat|tug]] ran aground in [[Bootle Bay]] whilst going to the assistance of ''Dickey Sam'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was refloated.<ref name=LM300149/>
}}
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|ship=''Donegal'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and severely damaged at [[Redcar]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[London]] to [[Middlesbrough]], Yorkshire.<ref name=Times010249/><ref name=S310149/> She was refloated on 3 February and towed in to [[Middlesbrough]], Yorkshire.<ref name=NC090249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Newcastle Courant etc |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=9 February 1849 |issue=9088 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Gulanre'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship capsized at [[Lerwick]], [[Shetland Islands]].<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
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|ship=''Hope'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was in collision with ''Chili'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) in the North Sea off [[Flamborough Head]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=S310149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=31 January 1849 |issue=7634 }}</ref> She came ashore at [[Hornsea]], Yorkshire.<ref name=HP020249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |location=Hull |date=2 February 1849 }}</ref> She drove ashore the next day {{convert|14|nmi|km}} south of [[Bridlington]], Yorkshire.<ref name=HP090249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |location=Hull |date=9 February 1849 |issue=3346 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Laurel'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was wrecked at [[Stornoway]], [[Isle of Lewis]], [[Outer Hebrides]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Dublin]].<ref name=CM080249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=8 February 1849 |issue=19857 }}</ref><ref name=AJ140249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Aberdeen Journal |location=Aberdeen |date=14 February 1849 |issue=5275 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Luck{{'}}s All'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[Lincolnshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Mary Clark'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore near [[Seaton Snook]], County Durham. She was refloated on 5 February and towed in to [[Sunderland, County Durham]].<ref name=Times010249/><ref name=CM050249>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=5 February 1849 |issue=19856 }}</ref><ref name=HP160349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet and East Riding Times |location=Hull |date=16 February 1849 |issue=3347 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Pallion Castle'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore at Redcar. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to [[Sunderland, County Durham]].<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Planter'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by ''Richard N. Parker'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Planter'' was on a voyage from [[Odessa]] to [[Falmouth, Cornwall]].<ref name=MP060249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=6 February 1849 |issue=23453 |page=7 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Richmond Hill'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near [[Skinningrove]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]] with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from London to Sunderland or [[Seaham]], County Durham.<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Ringmahon Castle'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI|civil}} [[Jersey]]
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore at Redcar. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jersey to [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]].<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Sarah'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore south of Hartlepool.<ref name=MP310149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Sophia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was run into by ''William'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] to [[Plymouth]], [[Devon]]. She was assisted in to [[Lowestoft]], [[Suffolk]].<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Tennant'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near [[Whitby]], [[North Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]].<ref name=MP310149/> She was refloated on 5 February and taken in to Whitby.<ref name=NC090249/>
}}
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|ship=''Vest'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore at [[Seaton Carew]], County Durham. She was refloated on 5 February and taken in to Hartlepool.<ref name=MP310149/><ref name=NC090249/>
}}
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|ship=''Vintage'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Redcar. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to [[South Shields]], County Durham.<ref name=Times010249/>
}}
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|ship=''Violet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore south of Hartlepool.<ref name=MP310149/> She was refloated on 31 January.<ref name=NC090249/>
}}
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|ship=''William Packet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore south of Hartlepool.<ref name=MP310149/>
}}
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==30 January==
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|ship=''Baron Escheles'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The [[barque]] was driven ashore and severely damaged at [[South Shields]], [[County Durham]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref name=MP010249/><ref name=HP020249/> Her crew were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat.<ref name=NC020249>{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=The Newcastle Courant etc |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=2 February 1849 |issue=9087 }}</ref> She was on a voyage from [[Antwerp]], Belgium to South Shields.<ref name=S010249/> She was refloated on 20 February.<ref name=S210249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=21 February 1849 |issue=7652 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Breeze'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New South Wales]]
|desc=The ship was sighted off [[Cape Upstart]] whilst on a voyage from [[Sydney]] to [[Keppel Bay]]. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.<ref name=DN221049>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Daily News |location=London |date=22 October 1849 |issue=1063 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Hope'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the [[Bay of Luce]]. her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Maryport]], [[Cumberland]] to [[Belfast]], [[County Antrim]].<ref name=MP020249/>
}}
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|ship=''Jason'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground at [[King's Lynn]], [[Norfolk]].<ref name=S010249/>
}}
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|ship=''John'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked north of Geron Head. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Troon]], [[Ayrshire]] to [[Belfast]], [[County Antrim]].<ref name=S030249/>
}}
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|ship=''New Concord'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore and severely damaged at South Shields. She was on a voyage from [[Sunderland, County Durham]] to [[London]]. She was later refloated and towed in to South Shields.<ref name=MP010249/><ref name=S010249/><ref name=Times090249/>
}}
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|ship=''Penelope'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was wrecked at [[St. Shott's]], [[Nova Scotia]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]] to [[New York City|New York]], United States.<ref name=CM230449>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=23 April 1849 |issue=19878 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Scio'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the [[Kentish Knock (England)|Kentish Knock]]. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], [[Northumberland]] to [[Havre de Grâce]], [[Seine-Inférieure]], France. She was refloated and taken in to [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=Times010249>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=1 February 1849 |page=8 |issue=20088 |column=C }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Shakespeare'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the [[North Sea]] off the coast of [[County Durham]]. She was on a voyage from [[Agrigento]], [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies|Sicily]] to South Shields. She was refloated and taken into South Shields in a waterlogged condition.<ref name=S010249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 February 1849 |issue=7635 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Tay'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[sloop]] foundered off [[St. Abb's Head]], [[Berwickshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=Times010249/> Both crew were rescued by the sloop ''Rose'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).<ref name=GH020249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=2 February 1849 |issue=4801 }}</ref> ''Tay'' was on a voyage from South Shields to [[Bo'ness]], [[Lothian]].<ref name=MP010249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=1 February 1849 |issue=23449 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==31 January==
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|ship=''Aimable'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked in [[Carmarthen Bay]].<ref name=S050249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=5 February 1849 |issue=7638 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Juno'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost off [[Flamborough Head]], [[East Riding of Yorkshire|Yorkshire]]. Her crew were rescued.<ref name=MP030249>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=3 February 1849 |issue=23451 |page=8 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Lady Constable'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground off Broom Hill, [[County Waterford]]. She was on a voyage from [[Baltimore, Maryland]], United States to [[Waterford]]. She was refloated and taken in to Waterford.<ref name=S030249/>
}}
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|ship=''Pioneer'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Bristol]], [[Gloucestershire]] to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], United States.<ref name=Times090249>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=9 February 1849 |page=8 |issue=20095 |column=E }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==Unknown date==
{{shipwreck list begin |date=Unknown date in January 1849 |sort=}}
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|ship=''Achilles'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Porto Camares", [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name=Times270149/>
}}
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|ship=''Amiral Miami'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The [[lugger]] foundered before 11 January. Her crew were rescued by ''Leon'' ({{Flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).<ref name=Times150149a/>
}}
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|ship=''Avenir'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked near [[Lannion]], [[Côtes-du-Nord]] before 12 January. She was on a voyage from [[Nantes]], [[Loire-Inférieure]] to a British port.<ref name=CM220149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Blarney'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship foundered in the [[Irish Sea]] before 25 January.<ref name=Times300149a/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Comet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was in collision with ''Midlothian'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] before 12 January. Her crew were rescued by ''North Ash'' ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). ''Comet'' was on a voyage from [[Ramsgate]], [[Kent]] to [[São Miguel Island]], [[Azores]].<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Elisia'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|Kingdom of Greece|1863-naval}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at the [[Isola Sant' Andrea Lighthouse]], Gallipoli.<ref name=Times270149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Emma and Louise'' 
|flag={{flag|Netherlands}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the [[Goodwin Sands]], Kent with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from [[jakarta|Batavia]], [[Netherlands East Indies]] to [[Amsterdam]], [[North Holland]].<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Finland'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near [[Gallipoli]], Ottoman Empire before 2 January. She was on a voyage from [[Odessa]] to [[Cork (city)|Cork]] or [[Falmouth, Cornwall]]. She was refloated and taken in to [[Syra]], [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] in a leaky condition.<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Francis'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore in the Sound of Criska. She was on a voyage from [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]] to [[Ballina, County Mayo]].<ref name=GH190149>{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=Glasgow Herald |location=Glasgow |date=19 January 1849 |issue=4797 }}</ref>
}}
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|ship=''Friends'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was driven ashore near [[Hartlepool]], [[County Durham]] before 13 January. She was on a voyage from the [[River Clyde|Clyde]] to [[Sunderland, County Durham]].<ref name=S150149/><ref name=GH190149/>
}}
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|ship=''Gem'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|USA|1848}}
|desc=The [[whaler]] was wrecked on one of the uncharted [[Suwarrow]] reef's. There were no deaths and after 21 days repairing the [[whaleboat]]s on a sand bank they sailed to [[Upia]].<ref>''Friend'', of Honolulu, September 1, 1849, Vol. 7, No. 6, p. 46.</ref><ref name=P150949>{{cite news |title=Untitled |newspaper=The Polynesian |location=Honolulu |date=15 September 1849 | url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015408/1849-09-15/ed-1/seq-2}}</ref> 
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Harmonie'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was lost at the mouth of the [[Loire]] before 8 January.<ref name=MP100149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Hudson'' 
|flag={{flag|Bremen}}
|desc=The ship was lost off the mouth of the [[Weser]] before 18 January. Her crew were rescued by the [[wherry]] ''Bremen'' ({{flag|Bremen}}). ''Hudson'' was on a voyage from Puerto Rica to [[Hamburg]].<ref name=Times240149/><ref name=MC240149>{{Cite news |title=Cuxhaven, Jan. 18. |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=24 January 1849 |issue=24730 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''John and Elizabeth'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore at [[Bideford]], [[Devon]]. She was refloated on 8 January.<ref name=S110149b/>
}}
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|ship=''Lady Adelaide'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Colorado Reef before 22 January. She was on a voyage from [[British Honduras]] to Cork.<ref name=Times230149>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=23 January 1849 |page=3 |issue=20080 |column=F }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Lady Sale'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States before 23 January. She was on a voyage from [[Kingston, Jamaica]] to [[New York City]]. She was refloated on 25 January and towed in to New York City.<ref name=CM220249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Lena'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[British North America]]
|desc=The ship was driven ashore on [[Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands|Saint John]], [[Virgin Islands]] between 29 January and 1 February. She was on a voyage from [[Saint John's, Newfoundland]] to [[Barbadoes]]<ref name=CM050349>{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=5 March 1849 |issue=19864 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Marie Rose'' 
|flag={{flag|France}}
|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Newcastle upon tyne]], [[Northumberland]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] to [[Dieppe]], [[Seine-Inférieure]].<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Mary'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at [[Augusta, Sicily]] before 5 January. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]] to Cork.<ref name=Times240149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Montbars'' 
|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}
|desc=The [[brig]] was wrecked on the coast of Spain.<ref name=MP080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Pollux'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore by ice in the [[Delaware River]]. She was on a voyage from [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], United States. She was later refloated and taken in to Philadelphia in a severely damaged condition.<ref name=Times210249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''River Chief'' 
|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} [[New South Wales]]
|desc=The ship ran aground at the mouth of the [[Yarra River]] before 4 January.<ref name=BTA040149>{{Cite news |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226431601 |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=The Britannia and Trades' Advocate |location=Hobart |date=4 January 1849 |page=3 }}</ref>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Quebec Packet'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore near [[New Quay]], [[Cardiganshire]] before 15 January. She was on a voyage from [[Limerick]] to [[Bristol]] [[Gloucestershire]].<ref name=MP170149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Resoluto'' 
|flag=[[File:Austria-Hungary-flag-1869-1914-naval-1786-1869-merchant.svg|22px]] [[Austrian Empire]] 
|desc=The [[brig]] was abandoned in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] before 11 January. She was on a voyage from [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]] to [[Trieste]]. She was subsequently towed in to [[Augusta, Sicily]] by an English ship.<ref name=Times220149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Skylark'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship ran aground on the Shipwash Sand before 12 February.<ref name=Benham/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Sophia and Susanna'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was wrecked at [[Civitavecchia]], [[Papal States]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Civitavecchia to [[Messina]], [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies|Sicily]].<ref name=CM120249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Standard'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The ship was lost off [[Martinique]] between 1 and 10 January with some loss of life. She was on a voyage from [[Demerara]], [[British Guiana]] to Liverpool.<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Telemacho'' 
|flag=Flag unknown
|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef in the [[Sea of Marmora]]. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Odessa to the [[United States of the Ionian Islands|Ionian Islands]] or [[Malta]].<ref name=CM080249/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''Thekla'' 
|flag={{flag|Denmark}}
|desc=The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on [[Skagen]] before 3 January. She was on a voyage from [[Aarhus]] to an English port.<ref name=Times230149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list item
|ship=''William'' 
|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}
|desc=The [[schooner]] was driven ashore and wrecked at "Airies", [[Wigtownshire]] with the loss of all hands.<ref name=Times150149a/><ref name=MC130149/>
}}
{{shipwreck list end}}

==References==
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