The list of shipwrecks in August 1822 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1822.
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| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Venus | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Warden | The ship ran onto rocks and sank at Tynemouth, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. [1] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hero | The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits. [2] [3] Her crew were rescued. [4] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Perth | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Betsey | | The ship was wrecked in Broken Bay. Her crew were rescued. [6] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia | The ship was wrecked at Solva, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Little Haven to Solva. [7] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Comet | The ship was wrecked on Amburger Key. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to Portland, Maine. [8] | |
| Palmyra | | The brig was captured and sunk off St. Thomas, Virgin Islands by USS Grampus ( |
| Pancheta | The privateer, a brig was severely damaged St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in an engagement with USS Grampus ( |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Venus | The ship was wrecked on The Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued. [12] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hopewell | The ship was driven ashore at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America. [13] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anna Dorothea | The ship, of Kiel, was on her way from St Ubes when she started to sink. George Hibbert |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Calcutta, India. [15] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Martha Brae | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Edward | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lark | The ship sprang a leak and was beached. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Liverpool, Lancashire. [17] | |
| Victorine | | 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. |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Monitor | The ship was wrecked at Barbuda. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sint Eustatius. [18] | |
| Retrieve | 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 | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hebe ( |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Nueva Pelicana | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingston, Jamaica by a privateer. [22] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Neptune | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cepheus | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Dungeness, Kent and Camber, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. [17] [25] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Asia Feliz | | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Mazagon. [26] |
| Eliza | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked om Butcher's Island, Bombay, India. [26] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander | 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] |
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| David Shaw | 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 ( | |
| Eleanor | The ship sank in the River Liffey. [12] She was later refloated and taken in to Dublin. [28] | |
| Friendship | The ship foundered off Rame Head, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. [24] | |
| Hazard | 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 | The sloop was lost in the Hebrides with the loss of at least 13 lives. [30] | |
| Victorine | | The ship departed from Sydney for Hobart, Van Diemen's Land. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [31] |