List of shipwrecks in May 1831
The list of shipwrecks in May 1831 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1831.
May 1831 | ||||||
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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 |
4 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Archibald | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Sandhamn, Sweden.[1] |
5 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Janet | The ship was driven ashore at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Fraserburgh Lifeboat.[2] | |
Mary Ann | The schooner was in collision with a brig and sank with the loss of three of her five crew. she was on a voyage from Portaferry, County Down to Campbeltown, Argyllshire.[3] |
9 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hero | The ship was wrecked on St. Paul's Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued.[4] |
10 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sarah | The ship foundered off Skagen, Denmark.[5] |
11 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Jessie | The sloop was wrecked off Newcastle. Her crew were rescued.[6][7] | |
John | The ship was wrecked in Jank's Sound, off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued.[8] | |
Union | The ship was lost on the East Barrow Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. All on board were rescued by the cutter Area ( |
12 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Doris | The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Lady Ridley ( | |
Duke of York | The ship was wrecked at Madeira, Portugal.[10][11] | |
George | The cutter was wrecked on Dyer Island. Her crew were rescued.[12] |
13 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Mary Ann | The brig capsized off Hiiumaa, Russia with some loss of life.[13] |
14 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fleece | The schooner was wrecked on Scroby Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by HMS Royal Charlotte ( |
15 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Rattler | The ship foundered in the Arctic Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Arkhangelsk, Russia.[15] |
17 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Pero | The ship was driven ashore at North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from London to Hull, Yorkshire.[16] |
19 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Coosa | The steamboat collided with Huntress ( | |
Henrick | The three-masted barque capsized in the River Thames at St. Katherine's Dock, London, United Kingdom. Her twenty crew survived. She was refloated later that day.[18][19] | |
Thorne | The ship was wrecked on Robin Island, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from the Cape Colony to London.[12] |
20 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Lively | The ship capsized and sank off "Huen Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pillau, Prussia to Ramsey, Isle of Man.[13] |
22 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Prosperous | The ship was wrecked and sank on the north coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Weymouth, Dorset to Guernsey.[20] |
23 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Ruby | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America.[21] |
24 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Hercules | The ship was lost on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Dominica to London.[5] | |
Lady Cathcart | The ship was destroyed by fire at Kingston, Jamaica.[22] | |
Windart | The ship was lost on the Corton Sand.[5] |
25 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Sarah | The ship was driven ashore at Lossiemouth, Inverness-shire where she subsequently became a wreck.[23] |
26 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Cape Breton | The ship was destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.[13] | |
Mary Porter | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to St. John, New Brunswick, British North America.[21] | |
Sir Charles Ogle | The ship was lost west of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Demerara to Halifax.[21] |
27 May
Ship | Country | Description |
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Governor Hodgson | The ship was wreckled at County Harbour, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[21] | |
Mary | The ship was wrecked on Anholt, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London.[10] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Devenant | The ship was driven ashore in the Bay of Anthie in early May. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Hamburg.[20] | |
Maria | The ship was captured in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa by a 10-gun Spanish pirate brig. Most of her crew were murdered and the ship was scuttled.[24] | |
Mina | The ship foundered in the North Sea approximately 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ballachulish, Inverness-shire to Dundee, Forfarshire.[2] | |
Mersey | The ship was wrecked on "The Triangles" before 25 May. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, to Vera Cruz, Mexico.[25] | |
HMS Monkey | The schooner was wrecked at Tampico, Mexico. Her crew were rescued.[26] | |
Providence | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew were rescued.[27] |
References
- "Ship News". The Times (14540). London. 17 May 1831. col E, p. 3.
- "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet and Humber Mercury (2426). 17 May 1831.
- "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc (1045). 13 May 1831.
- "Ship News". The Times (14572). London. 6 June 1831. col F, p. 6.
- "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (19263). 25 May 1831.
- "Domestic Intelligence". The Sydney Monitor. 18 May 1831.
- "Domestic Intelligence". The Sydney Herald. 23 May 1831.
- "Ship News". The Morning Post (18853). 14 May 1831.
- "Ship News". Caledonian Mercury (17174). 15 August 1831.
- "Ship News". The Standard (1268). 7 June 1831.
- "Ship News". The Morning Post (18875). 8 June 1831.
- "From Lloyd's List – August 12". Caledonian Mercury (17174). 15 August 1831.
- "From Lloyd's List – May 31". Caledonian Mercury (17143). 4 May 1831.
- "(untitled)". The Bury and Norwich Post: Or, Suffolk and Norfolk Telegraph, Essex, Cambridge and Ely Intelligencer (2552). 25 May 1831.
- "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle (19270). 2 June 1831.
- "Shipping Intelligence". The Hull Packet and Humber Mercury (2427). 24 May 1831.
- "Another Steam-Boat Disaster". The Times (14583). London. 6 July 1831. col B, p. 5.
- "Severe Gale - Accidents on the River". The Times (14543). London. 20 May 1831. col F, p. 6.
- "Accidents on the River". The Standard (1253). 20 May 1831.
- "Ship News". The Times (14549). London. 27 May 1831. col B, p. 4.
- "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc (1052). 1 July 1831.
- "From Lloyd's List – July 15". Caledonian Mercury (17162). 18 July 1831.
- "Ship News". Caledonian Mercury (17144). 6 June 1831.
- "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury (1067). 14 October 1831.
- "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. (1058). 12 August 1831.
- "(untitled)". The Times (14593). London. 18 June 1831. col D, p. 2.
- "Naval Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc (1051). 24 June 1831.
Ship events in 1831 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 |
Ship commissionings: | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 |
Shipwrecks: | 1826 | 1827 | 1828 | 1829 | 1830 | 1831 | 1832 | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 |
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