List of ships captured in the 19th century

[Anav]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_captured_in_the_19th_century#Quasi-War

[csadn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_captured_in_the_19th_century#War_of_1812

Final score: USA: 19; Britain 14.

[Berthier]

The Napoleonic war period is a veritable sea of depressing French flags signifying lost ships...sprinkled with the odd Spaniard and hapless Dane.

[David Manley]

To say the list is incomplete would be an understatement - I don't have accurate figures to hand but the Wiki article on the French navy suggests 377 French losses to 10 British between 1793 and 1812. OK, so 7 out of 19 years of those losses were in the 18th century but even so :) I think a complete list of losses would be very difficult to put together but would be enormous, and would be dwarfed by a list of merchant losses in the same period!

[Berthier]

Absolutely, there is actually a book out called Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras the following quote from a review gives an idea of the scale of losses to both shipwrecks and enemy action:

The figures speak for themselves; During the years 1793-1799 alone, 2,385 British ships were lost at sea with a further 652 driven ashore and only 70 re-floated. At this same time an incredible 4,344 were captured by the enemy with only 705 being recaptured. Thus 3,639 ships were lost to the enemy and 2,967 met a watery grave of some form or other.

Although the majority of these losses to enemy action were merchant ships it does give an idea of the scale of the activity and this prior to the really busy time of 1800 onwards.