List of shipwrecks in August 1822
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| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Warden | United Kingdom |
The ship ran onto rocks and sank at Tynemouth, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued.[1] |
5 August
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hero | United Kingdom |
The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits.[2][3] Her crew were rescued.[4] |
11 August
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Betsey |  New South Wales |
The ship was wrecked in Broken Bay. Her crew were rescued.[6] |
15 August
| 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
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Venus | United Kingdom |
The ship was wrecked on The Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued.[12] |
18 August
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hopewell | United Kingdom |
The ship was driven ashore at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America.[13] |
18 August
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | United Kingdom |
The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Calcutta, India.[15] |
21 August
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Nueva Pelicana | Spain |
The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingston, Jamaica by a privateer.[22] |
28 August
| 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
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Asia Feliz | .svg){kind=small} 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] |
