Convict ship Amphitrite sinks off Boulogne

Wrecking of the Amphitrite. The ship Amphitrite wrecked in 1833 with heavy loss of life. The vessel was transporting female convicts to New South Wales when the disaster occurred. The wreck took place off Boulogne-sur-Mer, a location on the French coast of the English Channel. The incident resulted in significant casualties among the passengers and crew.

Loss of Life. The supplied sources state only that the wreck occurred with heavy loss of life; they do not record specific casualty figures, survivor counts, or the composition of the passenger list. More generally, many convicts died during transportation or during their sentence, and convict status was not inherited by children. Any precise totals for this wreck, such as those appearing in the legacy row, remain unverified by the supplied passages.

Ship History. The Amphitrite was built at Appledore, Torridge, in 1802. Under various owners and masters, she traded across the North Atlantic and to the Baltic before being chartered for penal transportation. The vessel's history prior to the 1833 wreck involved commercial trading routes.