List of shipwrecks in August 1822

The list of shipwrecks in August 1822 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1822.

1 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1822
Ship State Description
Venus   United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hayle, Cornwall.[1]

3 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1822
Ship State Description
Warden   United Kingdom The ship ran onto rocks and sank at Tynemouth, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued.[1]

5 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1822
Ship State Description
Hero   United Kingdom The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits.[2][3] Her crew were rescued.[4]

11 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1822
Ship State Description
Perth   United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. Perth was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.[5]

12 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1822
Ship State Description
Betsey   New South Wales The ship was wrecked in Broken Bay. Her crew were rescued.[6]

15 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1822
Ship State Description
Britannia   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Solva, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Little Haven to Solva.[7]

16 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1822
Ship State Description
Comet   United States The ship was wrecked on Amburger Key. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to Portland, Maine.[8]
Palmyra   Puerto Rican pirates The brig was captured and sunk off St. Thomas, Virgin Islands by USS Grampus (  United States Navy) with the loss of eleven of her 88 crew.[9][10]
Pancheta   Spain The privateer, a brig was severely damaged St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in an engagement with USS Grampus (  United States Navy). She was taken in to St. Thomas.[11]

17 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1822
Ship State Description
Venus   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on The Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued.[12]

18 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1822
Ship State Description
Hopewell   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America.[13]

18 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1822
Ship State Description
Anna Dorothea The ship, of Kiel, was on her way from St Ubes when she started to sink. George Hibbert   United Kingdom took off the crew and brought them into the Downs.[14]

20 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1822
Ship State Description
Jonathan   United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Calcutta, India.[15]

21 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1822
Ship State Description
Martha Brae   United Kingdom The ship was lost on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to New Brunswick, British North America.[16]

23 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1822
Ship State Description
Edward   United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Kirktown Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Virginia, United States to Leith, Lothian.[5]

24 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1822
Ship State Description
Lark   United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Liverpool, Lancashire.[17]
Victorine   New South Wales The schooner departed from Sydney for Mauritius. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all seven or eight crew.

25 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1822
Ship State Description
Monitor   United States The ship was wrecked at Barbuda. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sint Eustatius.[18]
Retrieve   United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the St. Anna Shoal. She was on a voyage from London to Maranhão, Brazil. Retrieve was later refloated but was condemned.[19]
True Briton   United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hebe (  United Kingdom) She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America.[20][21]

26 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1822
Ship State Description
Nueva Pelicana   Spain The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingston, Jamaica by a privateer.[22]

28 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1822
Ship State Description
Neptune   United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Swansea, Glamorgan with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Neath, Glamorgan to Cardigan.[23][24]

29 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1822
Ship State Description
Cepheus   United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Dungeness, Kent and Camber, Sussex. Her crew were rescued.[17][25]

30 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1822
Ship State Description
Asia Feliz   India The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Mazagon.[26]
Eliza   United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked om Butcher's Island, Bombay, India.[26]

31 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1822
Ship State Description
Alexander   United States The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged in the River Plate near Point Indigo, Argentina. She was later refloated and put into Ensenada.[27]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1822
Ship State Description
David Shaw   United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 22 August. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America to Belfast, County Antrim.[5] She was towed into Crookhaven, County Cork on 25 September by HMRC Kite (  Board of Customs).[13]
Eleanor   United Kingdom The ship sank in the River Liffey.[12] She was later refloated and taken in to Dublin.[28]
Friendship   United Kingdom The ship foundered off Rame Head, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[24]
Hazard   United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Dutch galiot. She was on a voyage from Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France.[29]
Katherine   United Kingdom The sloop was lost in the Hebrides with the loss of at least 13 lives.[30]
Victorine   New South Wales The ship departed from Sydney for Hobart, Van Diemen's Land. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[31]

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