title: List of shipwrecks in 1850
text: # List of shipwrecks in 1850
  
  The list of shipwrecks in 1850 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1850.
  
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  List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1850 :
  
  | Ship | Country | Description |
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  | Adonis | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore between Bonny and Calabar, Africa. She was consequently condemned. |
  | Albert Braser | South Australia | The schooner was blown out to sea from Port Phillip. No further trace, presumed foundered. |
  | Arabella | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked in the River Plate. |
  | Ariadne | United Kingdom | The ship was lost before 9 October. |
  | Brothers | Van Diemen's Land | The ship caught fire whilst on a voyage from Launceston to Alta California. The fire burned for 14 days. before it was extinguished. She put back to Launceston, where she arrived on 7 June. |
  | Caledonia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Saint Domingo. |
  | Courageux | France | The schooner foundered in the Bristol Channel in late November or early December with the loss of all hands. |
  | Dumfries | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on a reef off Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from Bombay, India to China. She was refloated and resumed her voyage. |
  | Enterprise | New South Wales | The schooner was wrecked near Warrnambool. |
  | Francis | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire between 21 January and 4 February. |
  | Gallinipper | United States | The 95-foot (29 m) trading schooner ran aground at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service. |
  | Gazelle | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Tampico, Mexico. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Tampico. |
  | Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire at Penang, Malaya before 31 August. She was on a voyage from Singapore to Penang. |
  | Jeanne d'Arc | France | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Africa. |
  | Jenny | France | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Vera Cruz, Mexico. |
  | Julia | Flag unknown | The barque foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all on board, more than 250 people. She was on a voyage from San Francisco, California, United States to Panama. |
  | Manuela | United Kingdom | The barque was abandoned in the Strait of Magellan. Her crew were rescued by Taboga ( United States). |
  | North Carolina | United States | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Puerto Rico. Her crew survived, but were imprisoned at Mayagüez. They were released when USS Albany ( United States Navy) threatened to bombard the town with her cannons. |
  | Octavia | United Kingdom | The barque was wrecked at "Port St. Maita". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Valparaíso, Chile to a port in Panama. |
  | Olympe | France | The ship was destroyed by fire at San Francisco, Alta California. |
  | Orion | Unknown | The barque was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. |
  | Pfundstuck | Norway | The barque sprang a leak and foundered with the loss of at least five lives. A message in a bottle was discovered off Finistère by some French fishermen stating that she had foundered. |
  | Proteus | Prussia | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean between 30 April and 18 December. She was on a voyage from Holzenburg to New York, United States |
  | Queen | New Zealand | The schooner was driven ashore and severely damaged in Poverty Bay. |
  | Sandersons | United Kingdom | The ship was lost in the Pacific Ocean. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from "Realijo" to Punto Arenas, Chile. |
  | William Hyde | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Hokianga, New Zealand between 25 September and 19 December. She was on a voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia. |
  