:List of shipwrecks in 1834

The list of shipwrecks in 1834 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during 1834.

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|ship=Aquatic

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was lost at Benin City, Nigeria.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |date=31 March 1834 |issue=2148 }}

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|ship=Emily Taylor

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Swan River Colony

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Cockburn Sound.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article641622 |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal |date=8 March 1834 }}

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|ship=Endymion

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Manchioneal, Jamaica. Her crew were rescued. She was bound for London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=3 May 1834 |issue=17600 }}

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|ship={{SV|Essex||2}}

|flag={{flag|United States|1822}}

|desc= The cargo schooner was lost on the passage from New York to Port Cabello. Lost with all 5 hands.{{cite web |url=https://www.downtosea.com/1800-1850/1832__1836.htm |title=1832-1836 |publisher=downtothesea.com |access-date=15 July 2021}}

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|ship=Frederick

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was taken by convicts and subsequently scuttled off the Chiloé Archipelago, Chile.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |date=14 August 1834 |issue=19870 }}

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|ship=Gasper

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Gibraltar

|desc=The ship capsized at Tampico, Mexico with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=10 April 1834 |issue=17590 }}

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|ship=Hoop

|flag={{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of the Netherlands}}

|desc=The brig was taken over by her crew, who murdered her captain and passengers. She was subsequently abandoned in the Amboyna Sea.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28654406 |title=Singapore News |newspaper=The Sydney Herald |date=1 January 1835 }}

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|ship=L'Aventure

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Her crew were rescued by a Maltese ship.{{Cite news |title=Express from Paris |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |date=29 August 1834 |issue=20282 }}

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|ship=Marie Rose

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the American coast. She was on a voyage from Guadeloupe to Granville, Manche.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=17 November 1834 |issue=17686 }}

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|ship=Mary

|flag={{flag|United States|1822}}

|desc=The whaler was destroyed by fire at Tahiti before 6 October.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet |date=17 October 1834 |issue=2604 }}

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|ship=Notre Dame des Carmes

|flag=22px Kingdom of Sardinia

|desc=The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Bugia and Bona, Algeria. All sixteen people on board survived, but two of the survivors were murdered by Bedouins.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Morning Post |date=10 March 1834 |issue=19735 }}

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|ship=Polmqua

|flag=Unknown

|desc=The sloop was lost in the vicinity of "Squan Beach," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the {{convert|7|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.{{Cite web |url=https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |title=njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck" |access-date=2020-03-01 |archive-date=2020-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223173713/https://njscuba.net/sites/site_lavallette.php |url-status=dead }}

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|ship=Reliance

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Louisa Shoal, off Singapore, before 6 September. She was involved in the salvaging of the cargo of New Jersey ({{flag|United States|1822}}), which was wrecked there the previous November.{{Cite news |title=Postscript |newspaper=The Bristol Mercury |date=4 October 1834 |issue=2328 }}

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|ship=Robert Bruce

|flag={{flag|United States|1822}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Dry Tortugas before 29 July.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=29 July 1834 |page=6 |issue=15542 |column=B }}

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|ship=Shamrock

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

|desc=The schooner capsized in Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand, during August or September. Initial reports put the loss as ten lives out of a crew of 11.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28654345 |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Sydney Herald |date=3 November 1834 }}Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p. 26. However, {{ship||Denmark Hill|1814 ship|2}} brought the master and five men back to Sydney.

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|ship=Sylene

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the coast of Africa. Her crew were rescued by a Maltese ship.

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|ship=Tamige

|flag={{flagicon|Württemberg}} Kingdom of Württemberg

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Cephalonia, Greece. All on board were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Stuttgart, Oct. 24. |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |date=3 November 1834 |issue=20338 }}

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|ship=Tourville

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on St. Catherines Island Georgia, United States before 23 June. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |date=27 August 1834 |issue=2276 }} }}

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