Squan Beach Wrecks

[West Jersey Detecting]

Here is a list of vessels lost in the area of discussion up to 1900. Some of these may be offshore, and many were refloated and/or salvaged, so not all are candidates for the Lavallette Wreck. A few have specific locations given, but most are given simply as "Squan" or "Squan Beach," which could be anywhere. A list like this could never hope to be complete.

Year
Name
Type
Location

1705 Swan brigantine Squan
1809 Benjamin & Elizabeth ship Squan Beach
1809 Joseph ship Squan Beach
1810 Three Friends Squan Beach
1812 Mentor brig Squan Beach
1813 Thistle Squan Inlet
1824 Amity ship Squan Beach
1826 Hannah Ann sloop Squan
1827 Orbit schooner Squan Beach
1827 Solon schooner Island Beach
1827 Florida schooner Island Beach
1827 Lewis ship Island Beach
1828 Marvel brig Island Beach
1828 Mobile brig Squan Beach
1828 Post Boy schooner Island Beach
1830 Thankful Winslow schooner Squan Beach
1830 Etna schooner Squan Beach
1830 Aetna schooner Squan Beach
1830 Sovereign ship Squan Beach
1831 Cape Henry schooner Squan Beach
1832 General Putman ship Island Beach
1832 Mary & Eliza Squan Beach
1832 Hunter brig Squan Beach
1832 Christine Louisa ship Squan Beach
1833 Mary brig Squan
1834 Polmqua sloop Squan Beach
1835 Sovereign (salvaged) ship Squan Beach
1835 A J Donnelson barque Squan Beach
1835 Lydia schooner Cranberry Inlet
1835 Lola May brig Squan Beach
1835 Jonathan Myer schooner Squan Beach
1836 Astros brig Squan Beach
1838 Henry Clay schooner Mantoloking
1838 Ageneria schooner Mantoloking
1839 Gov. Coddington brig Island Beach
1840 John C Jackson schooner Squan Inlet
1840 Potomac schooner Island Beach
1840 Senate schooner Manasquan Beach
1846 John S Minturn ship Squan Beach
1846 Alabama schooner Squan Beach
1849 La Fauvette bark Squan Beach
1850 Orion bark Squan
1850 Ayrshire ship Squan Beach
1852 Argyle bark 3 miles S of Squan
1853 Grand Turk schooner Squan Inlet
1853 Western World ship Spring Lake
1853 Cornelius Grinnell ship Squan Beach
1855 Argyle bark Squam Beach
1857 Minerva ship Cranberry Inlet
1857 Samuel Willets ship near Squan
1857 Clara Brookman ship Squan Beach
1859 John R Stanley schooner Squan Beach
1860 DeWitt Clinton ship 7 miles S of Squan Inlet
1861 Governor Bull brig Squan Beach
1862 Hazard brig Squan Inlet
1864 Monio brig Squan Beach
1864 Elizabeth ship Manasquan
1865 Oriona brig Squan
1865 C Matthews schooner Squan Beach
1865 Flora bark Squan Beach
1866 R G Porter schooner Point Pleasant
1867 G W Hinson schooner Squan Beach
1867 Charles E Pope schooner Squan Beach
1867 Carlotta schooner Squan
1867 Cordula schooner Squan Beach
1867 Creole steamer Bay Head
1869 R C Waldron schooner Squan Beach
1869 M M Merriman schooner Squan Beach
1869 Ann Corbett schooner Squan Beach
1870 Scudd schooner Squan Beach
1870 B C Schriviner schooner Squan Beach
1870 Gilman D King schooner Squan Beach
1870 John Collins schooner Squan Beach
1871 Oneida schooner Squan Beach
1871 Catherine Jackson off Squan
1871 O H Canady schooner Squan Beach
1871 Villotine bark Squan Beach
1871 Aries steamer Cranberry Inlet
1872 Panther steamer Squan Beach
1870 Lizzie Lane sloop Squan Beach
1875 Thomas Fletcher bark Squan Beach
1875 The Queen steamer Squan Beach
1875 M J Forsha sloop Squan Beach
1875 Cora schooner Squan Beach
1876 Eliza Jane schooner Squan Beach
1876 Magdalina brig Cranberry Inlet
1876 AMC Smith schooner Squan Beach
1876 Lillian Cameron brigantine Squam Beach
1877 Margaret & Lucy schooner opposite Toms River
1878 New Jersey bark Squan
1878 Maggie McDonald schooner Wreck Pond Inlet
1878 D C Bradley schooner Squan
1881 Arctic brigantine Squan
1883 Meta ship Mantoloking
1884 C C Dame schooner Bay Head
1885 Peacedale schooner Ocean Grove
1886 Tsengora ship Spring Lake
1886 W C Warner brig Matoloking
1888 Civitas Carrera bark Manasquan **
1888 Andrew H Edwards bark off Island Beach
1890 Lawrence McKenzie schooner opposite Forked River
1892 Henry Davey schooner off Squan
1894 Albert W Smith schooner Squan Beach
1894 Susan H Ritchie schooner between Bay Head & Mantoloking
1899 Aji schooner Island Beach
1900 Oliver Scolfield schooner Chadwick

**

This wreck was uncovered by a
storm and salvaged in 1937.

Likewise, there are many anonymous fishing snags and other unknown wreckage up and down the coast, any of which could prove to be one of these wrecks. Or, more likely, they have either sunk into the sand or been consumed by the surf.

 

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