Author

Emma Sewell

Published

February 23, 2026

Dataset

Importing and cleaning the dataset

all_shipwrecks <- tibble(read.csv("shipwrecks.csv"))
all_shipwrecks <- select(all_shipwrecks,Vessel.Name, Date.of.Wreck, Event)
eighteen <- all_shipwrecks %>%
  filter(str_starts(Date.of.Wreck, "185"))

eighteen <- separate(eighteen,
                     Vessel.Name,
                     sep = "-",
                     into = c("Ship","Year")
                     )

eighteen <- rename(eighteen, Wreck_Date = Date.of.Wreck)

tidy_shipwrecks <- select(eighteen, Ship, Wreck_Date,Event)

Overview of the dataset

Shipwrecks from 1850
Ship Wreck_Date Event
Adriatic  1859-12-24 Stranded
Stamford  1857-01-01 Wrecked
Allen And Brown  1853-01-01 Wrecked
Perthshire  1854-01-01 Wrecked
Perseverance  1855-01-01 Wrecked
Zenobia  1857-01-01 Wrecked
Robert Treat  1859-06-18 Wrecked
Arcadia  1854-11-26 Wrecked
Nisbis  1855-01-18 Wrecked
Amazon  1853-06-01 Wrecked

Variables summary

The following table is a summary of the variables contained within the shipwrecks dataset.

Variables in the shipwrecks dataset
Variable Type Description
Ship Nominal Name of Ship
Wreck_Date Ordinal Date of Wreck
Event Nominal Cause of Wreck

Frequency tables

The following table is a frequency of causes of wreck events:

Frequency of Causes of Wreck Events
Event freq rel_freq
Wrecked 55 0.8
Stranded 10 0.2
Abandoned 1 0.0

The following table is a frequency of wreck dates:

Frequency of Wreck Dates
Wreck_Date freq rel_freq
1855-01-18 4 0.1
1854-01-01 3 0.0
1857-01-01 3 0.0
1850-01-01 2 0.0
1851-01-01 2 0.0
1851-08-26 2 0.0
1856-12-26 2 0.0
1859-06-18 2 0.0
1850-01-04 1 0.0
1850-04-02 1 0.0
1850-07-06 1 0.0
1850-08-03 1 0.0
1850-09-04 1 0.0
1850-10-01 1 0.0
1851-02-11 1 0.0
1851-09-13 1 0.0
1851-12-16 1 0.0
1852-02-21 1 0.0
1852-09-14 1 0.0
1852-11-21 1 0.0
1852-12-07 1 0.0
1852-12-16 1 0.0
1852-12-18 1 0.0
1853-01-01 1 0.0
1853-04-05 1 0.0
1853-06-01 1 0.0
1853-06-28 1 0.0
1853-12-05 1 0.0
1853-12-09 1 0.0
1854-02-21 1 0.0
1854-05-05 1 0.0
1854-06-29 1 0.0
1854-10-23 1 0.0
1854-11-24 1 0.0
1854-11-26 1 0.0
1855-01-01 1 0.0
1855-04-18 1 0.0
1855-10-26 1 0.0
1855-12-07 1 0.0
1856-03-19 1 0.0
1856-04-01 1 0.0
1856-06-02 1 0.0
1856-09-23 1 0.0
1856-12-03 1 0.0
1856-12-07 1 0.0
1856-12-24 1 0.0
1857-03-01 1 0.0
1858-01-01 1 0.0
1858-03-01 1 0.0
1858-10-03 1 0.0
1859-01-01 1 0.0
1859-07-01 1 0.0
1859-12-21 1 0.0
1859-12-24 1 0.0

Descriptive statistics

The following table is a descriptive table of shipwreck dates:

Descriptive statistics of wreck dates
variable n mean sd var min max
Wreck_Date 66 NA NA NA 1850-01-01 1859-12-24