List of shipwrecks in 1833

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

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

Further information: List of shipwrecks in November 1833

December

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1833

Ship	State	Description
Abbondanza	Austrian Navy	The sloop-of-war was wrecked before 26 March. [1]
Arcadia	United States	The brig was wrecked on Anegada, Virgin Islands. [2]
Amelia Wilson	United Kingdom	The whaler was wrecked on rocks about 40 miles north of Port Lloyd in the Bonin Islands in May or June 1833. The crew were saved, but some 1440 barrels of oil were lost.
Bacalha	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked near Beachy Head, Sussex. [3]
Britannia	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on a reef off Amber Island, Mauritius. All on board were rescued. [4]
Catherine	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Irvine, Ayrshire to British North America. [5]
Crown	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked or abandoned whilst on a voyage between the United Kingdom and British North America. [5]
Deux Marie	France	The ship was wrecked on Île Bourbon. [6]
Devon	United Kingdom	The whaler foundered off the coast of New Holland. [7]
Doris	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Benicarló, Spain. She was on a voyage from Benicarló to Hull, Yorkshire. [8]
Esclaviana	Brazil	The ship was lost off "Ceitar". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Pará. [9]
Fenella	flag unknown	The ship was presumed to have foundered whilst on a voyage from Mauritius to the Cape Colony. [10]
Fortitude	New Zealand	The schooner ran aground and was wrecked close to the mouth of the Whirinaki River in Hokianga Harbour, New Zealand. [11]
General Gascoyne	United Kingdom	The East Indiaman was driven ashore in Bengal. [12]
Hannah	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to British North America. [5]
Hydra	British East India Company	The East Indiaman was wrecked in the Philippine Islands, Spanish East Indies. [13]
Kinnersley Castle	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Mille Roches, Ontario, British North America. [14]
La Lilloise	France	The brig was reported to have been wrecked on Vanikoro. [15] This report was later dismissed as having been made in error. The last known position of La Lilloise was in the Denmark Strait. [16]
Lord Byron	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at "Hunbia". She was on a voyage from London to Gabon. Her crew were rescued. [17]
Margaret Ritchie	United Kingdom	The ship was either lost or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Ardrossan, Ayrshire to British North America. [5]
Mars	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all but three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Tampico, Mexico to Mobile, Alabama, United States. [18]
Mary	United Kingdom	The ship was either lost or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Newfoundland, British North America. [5]
Mary	Unknown	The brig was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. [19]
Mary Ann	New South Wales	The whaler was lost. [20]
Nanine	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Bahia Blanca, Brazil. [21]
Nantais	France	The whaler was wrecked on the coast of Madagascar. [22]
Neptune	British North America	The ship was wrecked downstream of Quebec City, Lower Canada. [14]
Peppell	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at New Calabar. She was on a voyage from Africa to Liverpool. [23] [24]
USS Porpoise	United States Navy	The 12-gun schooner was wrecked in the West Indies.
Raikes	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Newfoundland. [5]
Rose	France	The whaler was lost between Valdivia and Concepción, Chile. [25]
Samuel Brown	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Mauritius. She was on a voyage from Bengal, India to London. [26]
Susan	United Kingdom	The ship was lost off "Prince's Island". She was on a voyage from Africa to Liverpool. [27]
Sylph	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked or abandoned whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Newfoundland. [5]
Thomas	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on White Island, Rupert's Land. [14]
Villagevise	France	The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sardinia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Toulon, Var to Bugia, Algeria. [28]
Volunteer	United Kingdom	The ship was either wrecked on abandoned whilst on a voyage from Cork to British North America. [5]

References

1. "EXPRESS FROM PARIS". The Times. No. 15160. London. 9 May 1833. col C-D, p. 5.
2. Towle, Edward L.; Marx, Robert F.; Albright, Alan B. (December 1976). "Shipwrecks of the Virgin Islands. An Inventory, 1523 - 1825" (PDF). Virgin Islands: Island Resources Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
3. Renno, David (2004). Beachy Head Shipwrecks of the 19th Century. Sevenoaks: Amherst Publishing. pp. 119–23. ISBN   1-903637-20-1.
4. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15301. London. 21 October 1833. col C, p. 3.
5. "TRADE WITH BRITISH AMERICA". The Times. No. 15230. London. 30 July 1833. col D, p. 4.
6. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15202. London. 27 June 1833. col E, p. 3.
7. "Naval Intelligence". The Aberdeen Journal. No. 4488. 15 January 1834.
8. "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet. No. 2558. 29 November 1833.
9. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17452. 20 May 1833.
10. "Van Diemen's Land News". The Sydney Gazette. 6 March 1834.
11. Ingram, C. W. N., and Wheatley, P. O., (1936) Shipwrecks: New Zealand disasters 1795–1936. Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Book Publishing Association. p.25.
12. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15316. London. November 1833. col C, p. 7.
13. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1885. 28 May 1833.
14. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15329. London. 22 November 1833. col B, p. 4.
15. "Shipping Intelligence". The Aberdeen Journal. No. 5114. Aberdeen. 14 January 1846.
16. de Blosseville, Ernest Poret (1854). Jules de Blosseville (in French). Evreux: A. Herissey.
17. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15281. London. 27 September 1833. col B, p. 4.
18. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15154. London. 2 May 1833. col C, p. 4.
19. "njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"". Archived from the original on 2020-02-23. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
20. "Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea". The Sydney Herald. 6 March 1834.
21. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17502. 14 September 1833.
22. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15392. London. 2 February 1834. col E, p. 5.
23. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 19945. 30 July 1833.
24. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 1161. 2 August 1833.
25. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17528. 16 November 1833.
26. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 2078. 8 January 1834.
27. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 1154. 14 June 1833.
28. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 20041. 19 November 1833.