The Jessie Logan was an American-built English East Indiaman which was wrecked after striking rocks near Boscastle on the north coast of Cornwall in South West England in January 1843.
Jessie Logan left Calcutta on 14 September 1842 bound for Liverpool with a cargo of rice, cotton, flax, spices, buffalo horns and hides, shellac, raw sugar and dyewood.
Now at the full mercy of wind and waves, the ship drove onto rocks near Blackapit, just south of the Willapark headland on 22 January.
[2] Wrecks were seen as an act of providence in nineteenth century Cornwall and despite the presence of coastguards and the ship's owner, little could be done to prevent locals hauling away the washed up cargo.
[3] Barrister William Palmer proposed to make the hundreds of Boscastle people who plundered the Jessie Logan liable under law.