List of shipwrecks in 1799

The list of shipwrecks in 1799 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1799.

The Enterprise-class frigate was wrecked in ice on Neuwerk, or 6 miles north west on Scharhörn, with the loss of eighteen of the 187 people originally on board.

She drifted off again in a storm on the night of the 10th with a party of 6 that had re-boarded her, drifting onto a rock 1 1/2 miles off Baltrum on the 12th.

[20] The Magicienne-class frigate was wrecked off Vlieland, Batavian Republic with the loss of about 240 lives.

There was one survivor.