List of shipwrecks in August 1830

The list of shipwrecks in August 1830 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1830.

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August 1830
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
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2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31	Unknown date
References

1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Sarah	United Kingdom	The ship departed from Jamaica for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [1]
Vittoria	United Kingdom	The ship departed from British Honduras for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [2]

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Margaret	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the Arctic Ocean ( 60°12′N37°15′E / 60.200°N 37.250°E / 60.200; 37.250 ). [3] Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Archangelsk, Russia to Liverpool, Lancashire. [4]

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Smirny	Imperial Russian Navy	The sloop-of-war ran aground off "Tille Island", in the Kattegat. She was abandoned the next day with the loss of thirteen of her crew. Smirny was on a voyage from Archangelsk to Cronstadt. She was subsequently refloated and sold. [5]
Trusty	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the Kattegat. Her crew were rescued. [6]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Bee	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the North Sea. [7]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Margaretha Elizabeth	Hamburg	The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Bristol, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. [8]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Mary and Ann	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitby, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. [9]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Active	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked near Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, British North America. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Demerara to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America. [10]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Sir William Ashton	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked in Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, British North America. [11]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Dispatch	United Kingdom	The ship was sighted in the Skagerrak whilst on a voyage from Danzig, Prussia to London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [12]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Cornelia	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore in a hurricane at St. John's, Antigua. [13]
Fabricia	Spain	The ship was wrecked at Tortola. She was on a voyage from Cádiz to Havana, Cuba. [14]
St. Jago	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore in a hurricane at St. John's. [13]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Hector	United Kingdom	The ship capsized and sank in the North Sea off Sizewell, Suffolk with the loss of two of her crew. [3]
Helen	United Kingdom	The brig was sighted in the Skaggerak whilst on her maiden voyage, from Dundee, Forfarshire to Riga, Russia. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [15]
Hope	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on the Swine Bottoms, in the North Sea off Helsingør, Denmark. [16]
Kleine Lidia	Kingdom of Hanover	The ship was wrecked at Thisted, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Emden to Saint Petersburg, Russia. [17]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Amity	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on the coast of Florida, United States. [18]
Cosmopolite	France	The ship was wrecked near "Graverne", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque, Nord to a Russian port. [16]
Earl Wellington	United Kingdom	The ship was driven onto the Thistle Rocks, off the coast of Sweden, and wrecked. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire. [16]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Lady Canning	United Kingdom	The ship was werecked on the coast of Florida, United States with the loss of all hands. [19] She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Liverpool, Lancashire. [1]

17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Harriet	Sweden	The ship was driven ashore on Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg to Guernsey. [6] [20]
Mary Ann	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America to Jamaica. [21]

18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Boyne	United Kingdom	The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London. [22]
Gina	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on Norderney, Kingdom of Hanover with the loss of all but her captain. She was on a voyage from Aalborg, Denmark to Ipswich, Suffolk. [17]
Union	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked on the Scroby Sands, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rye, Sussex. [3]
Victory	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the North Sea off Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Harlingen, Friesland. [4]

19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Cupido	Sweden	The ship was driven ashore on Juist, Kingdom of Hanover. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Stockholm. [23]
Freund George	Hamburg	The ship was driven ashore on Juist She was on a voyage from Altona to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. [23]
Katherine	Denmark	The ship was abandoned in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Hull to Sunderland, County Durham. The wreck later came ashore at Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk. [3] [6]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Amaryllis	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at Dominica. Her crew were rescued. [14]
Eusebia	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Barbados. [6]

21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Augusta	Hamburg	The ship was wrecked on the Vogel Sand, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Archangelsk, Russia to Hamburg. [23]

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Aurora	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the English Channel off Egypt Point, Isle of Wight with the loss of her captain. [4]
Matchless	Demerara	The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of four of her seven crew. Survivors were rescued by St. Croix (  United Kingdom ). Matchless was on a voyage from Demerara to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. [24] [25]
Unternehmung	Hamburg	The ship was lost off Scharhörn. [17]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Aurora	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore at Penteivan, Cornwall. [4]
Royal Charlotte	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at sea. Her crew were rescued by Susannah (  United States). Royal Charlotte was on a voyage from Jamaica to Dublin. [24]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Commerce	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Pendle-mawr. [26] Her crew were rescued.
Henry	United Kingdom	The ship was wrecked at sea and abandoned. Her twelve crew were rescued by Intrepid (  United Kingdom ). [27]
Hornet	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Pendle-mawr. Her crew survived. [26]
Mary	United Kingdom	The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Borkum, Kingdom of Hanover. [17]
May	United Kingdom	The flat was driven ashore and wrecked at Pendle-mawr. Her four crew were rescued. [26]
Stag	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Pendle-mawr. [26]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Caroline	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Dunbar, Lothian. Her eight crew were rescued, but her captain subsequently died. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Leith, Lothian. [28] [29]
David	United Kingdom	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Dunbar. Her crew were rescued. [28]
Peggy	United Kingdom	The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked near Dunbar. Her four crew were rescued by rocket apparatus. [28] [29]
Saturnus	Grand Duchy of Finland	The schooner was wrecked at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Kusko to Peterhead. [30] [28]
Thomas and Dorothy	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in The Solent off St Helens, Isle of Wight. Her crew were rescued. [31]
Wellington	United Kingdom	The ship foundered in the North Sea off the Koll Sandbank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Danzig, Prussia to Liverpool, Lancashire. [32]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Boode	United Kingdom	The ship was sighted off Barbados whilst on a voyage from Demerara to Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [33]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1830

Ship	Country	Description
Jamaica	United Kingdom	The ship was lost on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America before 9 August. [31]
Olive	United States	The fishing schooner was lost while Mackerel fishing. All 7 crew were killed. [34]

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Ship events in 1830
Ship launches:	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835
Ship commissionings:	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835
Ship decommissionings:	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835
Shipwrecks:	1825	1826	1827	1828	1829	1830	1831	1832	1833	1834	1835