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

1 August

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

15 August

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b "From Lloyd's Marine List – Aug. 6". Caledonian Mercury. No. 15749. 12 August 1822.
  2. ^ "(untitled)". The Morning Post. No. 16068. 13 September 1822.
  3. ^ "Davis Straits Whale Fishery". The Morning Post. No. 16074. 20 September 1822.
  4. ^ "Ship News". The Morning Post. No. 16074. 20 September 1822.
  5. ^ a b c "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5736). 24 September 1822.
  6. ^ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 16 August 1822.
  7. ^ "SHIP-NEWS". The Brisyol Mercury. No. 1691. 19 August 1822.
  8. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 11712. London. 9 November 1822. col E, p. 3.
  9. ^ "From Lloyd's Marine List – Oct. 11". Caledonian Mercury. No. 15776. 14 October 1822.
  10. ^ "Grampus". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  11. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5741). 11 October 1822.
  12. ^ a b "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5727). 23 August 1822.
  13. ^ a b "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5739). 4 October 1822.
  14. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (57320). 10 September 1822. hdl:2027/hvd.32044105226328.
  15. ^ "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 16764. 11 January 1823.
  16. ^ "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 16710. 9 November 1822.
  17. ^ a b "Lloyd's Marine List – August 30". Caledonian Mercury. No. 15758. 2 September 1822.
  18. ^ "Lloyd's Marine List – = Oct 22". Caledonian Mercury. No. 15781. 26 October 1822.
  19. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5744). 22 October 1822.
  20. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 11657. London. 6 September 1822. col E, p. 3.
  21. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5731). 6 September 1822.
  22. ^ "Jamaica Papers". The Times. No. 11709. London. 6 November 1822. col D, p. 2.
  23. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5730). 3 September 1822.
  24. ^ a b "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 16653. 4 September 1822.
  25. ^ "COAST OF KENT, Sept. 1". The Morning Post. No. 16059. 3 September 1822.
  26. ^ a b "Ship News". The Morning Chronicke. No. 16788. 8 February 1823.
  27. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5756). 3 December 1822.
  28. ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5729). 30 August 1822.
  29. ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 11656. London. 5 September 1822. col C, p. 3.
  30. ^ "Sloop Katherine". Caledonian Mercury. No. 15756. 29 August 1822.
  31. ^ "Sydney". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 8 November 1822.

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