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List of shipwrecks in April 1833

The list of shipwrecks in April 1833 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1833.

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1 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1833
Ship State Description
Caldecot Castle   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London.[1]
Huddersfield   United Kingdom The ship tan aground on the Rose Sand, in the North Sea off Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She broke up on 6 April. Huddersfield was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to London.[2][3]
Opsrey   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the North Rock, Dorset. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Down to London.[4]

2 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1833
Ship State Description
Hope   United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore on the coast of Alabama, United States.[5]
Eugen   Prussia The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Memel. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Memel.[6]

4 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1833
Ship State Description
Anacreon   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Hogg Island, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Virginia.[7]

5 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1833
Ship State Description
Caledonia   United Kingdom The ship was holed by her anchor and sank at Troon, Ayrshire.[2]
Palm   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and damageded on Scharhörn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands to Hamburg.[2] Palm was refloated on 10 April and taken in to Cuxhaven.[6]

8 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1833
Ship State Description
John and Mary   United Kingdom The cutter was wrecked on Inistrahull Island, County Donegal. Her five crew were rescued.[8]

10 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1833
Ship State Description
President   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Arklow Banks, in the Irish Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Londonderry.[6]

11 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1833
Ship State Description
John   Jersey The ship was wrecked at Seaford, Sussex. Her crew were rescued by HMRC Stork (  Board of Customs).[9]
Providence   United Kingdom The ship was iun collision with Swift (  United Kingdom and sank in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.[6]

14 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1833
Ship State Description
Rifleman   United Kingdom The ship departed from Hobart, Van Diemen's Land for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[10] She may have been wrecked in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand.[11]
Waterloo   United Kingdom The ship was sunk by ice in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to British North America.[12]

20 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1833
Ship State Description
Crown   United Kingdom The ship was lost in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[13][14]

21 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1833
Ship State Description
Anna   Grenada The drogher was lost at Grenada.[15]

22 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1833
Ship State Description
Dolphin   British North America The ship was wrecked near Portugal Cove, Nova Scotia.. She was on a voyage from Halifax to Portugal Cove.[5]
Friendship   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Riga, Russia.[16]

24 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1833
Ship State Description
Melpomene   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean. She was abandoned three days later. Her crew were rescued by Isabella (  United Kingdom). Melpomene was on a voyage from the Clyde to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[17][18]
Nymph   British North America The ship departed from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland Colony, for a Portuguese port. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.[19]

25 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1833
Ship State Description
Anne   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the River Severn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney to an Irish port.[20]

26 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1833
Ship State Description
Margaret   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in Caernarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Preston, Lancashire.[21]
Mary Ann   United States The ship was destroyed by fire about 55 leagues (165 nautical miles (306 km) off St. Jago de Cuba, Cuba with some loss of life. She was on a voyage from New York to the South Seas.[22]
Olive   United Kingdom The ship capsized in the Bight of Benin with the loss of a crew member.[23]

28 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1833
Ship State Description
America   United States The schooner was wrecked on Georges Island, in Boston Harbor.[24]

29 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1833
Ship State Description
Comtesse de Bouille   France The ship was wrecked at Saint-Pierre, Martinique.[25]
Joven Miguel   Spain The ship was lost off Crooked Island, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from St. Andero to Havana, Cuba.[26]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1833
Ship State Description
Heroina   Portugal The schooner was wrecked off Old Harbour, Jamaica. Two hundred and thirty-two slaves were rescued.[27]
Highlander   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at "Holyhaven", Essex.[28]
Liberty   United Kingdom The ship was abandoned before 3 April and was subsequently driven ashore on Colonsay, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[28]
Johanna   United States The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Virginia to Grenada.[29]
Mexico   Mexico The ship departed from Tampico for New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Her crew subsequently mutinied, murdered her captain and passengers, then scuttled the vessel off Cape San Antonio, Cuba.[30]
Olive Branch   British North America The schooner capsized in late April.[5]
Robert   British North America The ship was wrecked in late April.[5]
Selina   British North America The ship was abandoned at sea in late April.[5]
Sir Charles Price   United Kingdom The whaler was wrecked in the Society Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the South Seas to London.[31]
Three Friends   United Kingdom The ship was lost near Tampico, Mexico in late April. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Tampico.[25]
Triune   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Viana de Castelano, Portugal with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Gibraltar.[32]
Tweed   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Heneaga Reef before 26 April. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.[5]

References edit

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  3. ^ "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1841. 6 April 1833. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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  6. ^ a b c d "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17433. 20 April 1833.
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