List of shipwrecks in August 1823

The list of shipwrecks in August 1823 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1823.

3 August
List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Concord  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Findhorn, Morayshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Findhorn.[1]

4 August
List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Hope  United States The schooner was wrecked on Little Bird Island Reef, off the coast of Antigua.[2]
Speedwell  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Cardigan Bay. She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[3]

5 August
List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Santa Maria Magdalena  Spain The ship was lost near Cádiz. She was on a voyage from A Coruña to Cádiz.[4]

8 August
List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Iris  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Cobler's Rock, Barbados. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Demerara to London.[5]

10 August
List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Lady Combermere  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Southport, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Africa to Liverpool, Lancashire.[6]
Nymph  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Dungeness, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Falmouth, Cornwall.[7]

11 August
List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Enterprize  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak in the North Sea and was beached at Cromer, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Colchester, Essex to Sunderland, County Durham.[6][8]
Henderson  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Workington, Cumberland.[1] She was refloated on 22 August.[9]
Richard Harvey  United States The schooner was lost in the Turks Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Jamaica.[10]

12 August
List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Isabella  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Insand, in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland.[6]
Lapwing  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Insand.[6]

13 August
List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Friendship  United Kingdom The ship was run down and sunk in the North Sea off "Skitter Ness" by Dorothy ( United Kingdom).[1]

14 August
List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Parker and Sons  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Bahia Honda Key, Florida Territory. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to the Clyde.[11]
Swallow Packet  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Ballast Bank, off Bangor, County Down and was severely damaged.[3]
Warrell  United Kingdom The brig ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued.[1]

15 August
List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
George IV  United Kingdom The brig was run down and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the barque Hannah ( United Kingdom) with the loss of 123 of the 129 people on board. The survivors were rescue by Hannah. On 18 August, Hannah was abandoned, all on board were rescued by Ospra ( United States). George IV was on a voyage from Waterford to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America. Hannah was on a voyage from Prince Edward Island, British North America to South Shields, County Durham.[12]
Mary  United States The ship was wrecked on the north coast of Bermuda. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.[10]
Parker & Sons  United Kingdom The ship struck the Honda Rock, in the Gulf of Florida and was beached. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to the Clyde.[13]

16 August
List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Caractacus  United Kingdom The sloop was wrecked on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of all hands.[1]
Radius  United States The ship sank in Prince's Dock, Liverpool and was severely hogged.[1]
Success  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Les Sables d'Olonne, Vendée, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Île d'Oléron, Charente-Maritime to Abbeville, Somme, France.[14][12]

17 August
List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Clara Stettin The ship struck a sandbank off "Cape Tortosa" and sank. She was on a voyage from Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France to Stettin.[15]

18 August
List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Echo  United States The schooner was damaged by fire at Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom with the loss of her captain. A crew member was severely injured.[16]
Neutralist  Netherlands The East Indiaman was wrecked at Gunwalloe, Cornwall, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France to a Norwegian port.[17]

19 August
List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Catharine  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Caernarfon to Belfast, County Antrim.[18]
Mary  United Kingdom The ship struck a rock off The Skerries and foundered. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Dublin.[19]

22 August
List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Betsey  United Kingdom The sloop foundered in the Irish Sea off the Smalls Lighthouse. Her crew were rescued by the schooner Betsey ( United Kingdom).[14]

23 August
List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Mariner  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America.[20] She sank the next day.[2]

25 August
List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Hind  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with a Revenue Cutter off Aberdeen and was beached. She was refloated the next day and found to be severely damaged.[14]
Salamander  United Kingdom The ship was lost off "Kole", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire to London.[21]

27 August
List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Nancy  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached near Cabo Catoche, Mexico. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Montego Bay, Jamaica.[19]
Neptune Stettin The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near "Monkwich", Russia. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Stettin.[22]

30 August
List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Louisa  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Helsinki, Finland. All on board were rescued.[23]

31 August
List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Hadlow  United Kingdom The ship departed from Sierra Leone for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
James  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Ekenäs, Finland. All on board were rescued.[23]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1823
ShipCountryDescription
Edward  United Kingdom The brig was scuttled by her crew, who had murdered her captain. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to South America.[24]
La Jeune Émilie  France The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Hampshire, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Rouen, Seine-Inférieure to Southampton, Hampshire.[25]
Rose  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the coast of Labrador, British North America in early August.[26]
Sisters  United Kingdom The whaler was sighted off the coast of Japan. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[27]
Vriendschap  Netherlands The ship foundered on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Antwerp. Her crew were rescued.[18]
William Henry  United States The schooner capsized neat the "Hole-in-the-Wall" in mid-August. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Savannah, Georgia.[28]

References
  1. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (16953). 20 August 1823.
  2. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5841). 26 September 1823.
  3. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5830). 19 August 1823.
  4. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5839). 19 September 1823.
  5. "Ship News". The Morning Post (16477). 13 October 1823.
  6. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5829). 15 August 1823.
  7. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (16947). 13 August 1823.
  8. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (16949). 15 August 1823.
  9. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5832). 29 August 1823.
  10. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5846). 14 October 1823.
  11. "Ship News". The Times (12006). London. 18 October 1823. col E, p. 3.
  12. "Ship News". The Morning Post (16442). 2 September 1823.
  13. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5847). 17 October 1823.
  14. "Ship News". The Times (11967). London. 3 September 1823. col D, p. 3.
  15. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5840). 23 September 1823.
  16. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5831). 22 August 1823.
  17. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (16956). 23 August 1823.
  18. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (16959). 27 August 1823.
  19. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5851). 31 October 1823.
  20. "Ship News". The Morning Post (16458). 20 September 1823.
  21. "Ship News". The Morning Post (16448). 9 September 1823.
  22. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5840). 23 September 1823.
  23. "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet, and Original Weekly Commercial, Literary and General advertiser (1927). 6 October 1823.
  24. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5861). 5 December 1823.
  25. "(advertisement)". The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle etc (1244). 11 August 1823.
  26. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5842). 30 September 1823.
  27. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (6037). 12 August 1825.
  28. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (17049). 10 December 1823.
Ship events in 1823
Ship launches: 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828
Ship commissionings: 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828
Ship decommissionings: 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828
Shipwrecks: 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828

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