Wrecked Ships – Letter B

ID

Ship Name

Tons

Lost

How

 153

 Bantam

 120

 1671

Wrecked on the Paracels on a voyage from Bantam to Formosa.

 839

 Barkworth

 505

 1824

Spoken off the Cape Verde Islands on 24 September by the Cumberland, West Indiaman; never heard of again.

 840

 Barossa

 729

 1847

Lost at sea.

 159

 Bedford

 750

 1702

Lost with all hands off Mauritius.

 12

 Bee

 170

 1624

Lost on a voyage from Batavia to Siam.

 1325

 Bellona

 472

 1811

Set on fire and scuttled.

 846

 Bengal

 819

 1809

14 Mar 1809: parted company with the main convoy of East Indiamen off Mauritius in a gale and not heard of since.

 847

 Bengal

 950

 1815

18 Jan: Destroyed by fire off Point de Galle, Ceylon.

 161

 Bengal Merchant

 570

 1693

6 Apr 1693: Destroyed by fire while at anchor in Madras Roads.

 165

 Berkeley Castle

 650

 1694

Foundered while being prepared to be taken into Brest by her captors.

 442

 Berrington

 500

 1730

Wrecked 24 August 1730 on Old Woman Island, at the entrance to Bombay Harbour.

 1331

 Berwick

 420

 1827

Wrecked at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa, on passage from Tellicherry and Bombay for London.

 1334

 Bhavani

 650

 1799

Wrecked three miles east of Boulogne in a gale at the end of her maiden voyage from Calcutta.

 443

 Blenheim

 260

 1714

Attacked by French corsair Duguay-Trouin in the Bay of Biscay on final leg of voyage; blew up and sank.

 1337

 Boddington

 331

 1805

Stranded in the River Thames off Blackwall, and became a total loss.

 1340

 Bombay Castle

 1628

 1796

Wrecked 21 Dec 1796 off the mouth of the River Tagus.

 15

 Bonito

 400

 1655

Wrecked off Madras.

 1342

 Boyd

 425

 1810

Destroyed by fire in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

 858

 Brampton

 432

 1823

Wrecked on 7 November 1823 in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

 861

 Brilliant

 703

 1782

Struck a rock at Johanna and became a total wreck, with heavy loss of life.

 862

 Britannia

 770

 1805

Wrecked off the Brazils.

 863

 Britannia

 1200

 1809

25 Jan wrecked in a gale on the Goodwin Sands.

 1348

 Brunswick

 484

 1805

Wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope on her way to France.