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The list of shipwrecks in August 1829 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during August 1829.

1 August

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List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1829
Ship State Description
John  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in the Delaware River, United States.[1]
Rhoda  United Kingdom The ship ran aground and capsized in the Humber at Oysterness, Yorkshire with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Goole, Yorkshire.[2]

3 August

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List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1829
Ship State Description
Grace  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire with the loss of all hands.[3] She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Macduff, Aberdeenshire.[4]
Milford  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Long Sand, off Kedgeree, Bengal, India.[5]
Rommany  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Kedgeree.[5]

4 August

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List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1829
Ship State Description
Active  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the "Burn of Boyndee". Her crew were rescued.[3]
Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Portgordon, Morayshire. Her crew were rescued.[6]
Anna Maria  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked west of Gardenstown, Aberdeenshire with the loss of all on board.[6]
Barbara and Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the mouth of the River Spey.[6]
Catherine  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the "Burn of Boyndee". Her crew were rescued.[3]
Endeavour  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea off Nairn with the loss of all hands.[3]
Lively  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) west of Speymouth, Morayshire.[6]
Lizard  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) west of Speymouth.[6]
Success  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near the "Burn of Boyndee". Her crew were rescued.[3]

5 August

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List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1829
Ship State Description
Driver United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Saint Vincent The schooner capsized whilst on a voyage from Saint Barthélemy to Saint Vincent with the loss of four of the twelve people on board.[7]

7 August

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List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1829
Ship State Description
Americano  Kingdom of Sardinia The ship was wrecked on Carreras, near Montevideo, Uruguay.[8]

9 August

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List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1829
Ship State Description
Crimonmogate  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Anticosti Island, Lower Canada, British North America. Her crew were rescued.[9]
Whim  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with the schooner Navarino in the North Sea off Spurn Head, Yorkshire and sank. Her crew were rescued.[10]

10 August

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List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1829
Ship State Description
Foxhound United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The cutter was wrecked whilst on a voyage from the Five Islands to Port Jackson with the loss of all eight crew.[11]

11 August

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List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1829
Ship State Description
John Wells  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Joe Flogger Shoal, in the Delaware River, United States.[12]

12 August

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List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1829
Ship State Description
Friends  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Nidingen, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Saint Petersburg, Russia.[13]

13 August

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List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1829
Ship State Description
Air Balloon  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Chatham, Kent.[14] She was refloated on 21 August and taken into Scarborough.[15]
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Kingstown, County Dublin with the loss of five of the eighteen people on board. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dundalk, County Louth.[16]
Duke  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked in Sandy Cove. All eleven people on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Dublin.[16][17]
Jean and Bell  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Westport, County Mayo. She was on a voyage from Westport to Liverpool, Lancashire.[18]

14 August

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List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1829
Ship State Description
Aurora  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked off the mouth of the River Tees. Her crew were rescued by the Redcar Lifeboat.[18]
Camillus  United Kingdom The sloop foundered in the Irish Sea a league (3 nautical miles (5.6 km)) off the Saltee Islands, County Wexford.[19]
Friends  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea off Hartlepool, County Durham. Her crew were rescued.[18]
Hero  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued by Feronia ( United Kingdom).[20]
London  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Hartlepool, County Durham.[18]
Providence  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Irish Sea 40 nautical miles (74 km) west south west of the Smalls Lighthouse. Her crew were rescued.[19]
Quest  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Brighton, Sussex. Her crew were rescued.[10]
Sea Nymph  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the mouth of the River Tees. Her crew were rescued by the Seaton Delaval Lifeboat.[18]

15 August

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List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1829
Ship State Description
Ant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to London.[21]
Perseverance  United Kingdom The ship sank at Bridlington, Yorkshire.[22]

16 August

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List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1829
Ship State Description
Lord Archibald Hamilton  United Kingdom The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at Girdleness, Aberdeenshire.[18]

17 August

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List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1829
Ship State Description
Fame United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The brig sank at her moorings in Sydney Cove.[23]
Norval  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Skagen, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.[24]
Richard and Jane  United Kingdom The schooner sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off the mouth of the Humber.[25]

18 August

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List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1829
Ship State Description
Dublin  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Bornholm, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Dublin.[24]

19 August

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List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1829
Ship State Description
George  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached in "Fernis Bay". She was on a voyage from Troon, Ayrshire to Castletown, Isle of Man.[13]

20 August

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List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1829
Ship State Description
Louisa  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked off Saugor, India.[26]
Recovery  United Kingdom The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of one of her fourteen crew. Lyra ( United Kingdom) rescued the survivors. Recovery was on a voyage from Trinidad to London.[27]

21 August

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List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1829
Ship State Description
Happy Return  United Kingdom The trow was wrecked on the Dun Sand, in the River Severn. Her crew survived.[28]

22 August

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List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1829
Ship State Description
Earl Moira  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel off the Owers Sandbank. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Guernsey, Channel Islands to London.[13][29]

23 August

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List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1829
Ship State Description
Charles  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane. There were six survivors. She was on a voyage from Tobago to London.[30]
Marjory  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Karlskrona, Sweden.[31]
Nancy  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Hythe, Kent.[15]

24 August

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List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1829
Ship State Description
Ann  United Kingdom The sloop was in collision with the schooner Ariadne in the North Sea off Girdleness, Aberdeenshire and sank. All on board survived.[24]
John and James  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Pentland Firth.[32]
Monarch  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (49°00′N 29°00′W / 49.000°N 29.000°W / 49.000; -29.000). Her crew were rescued by James ( United Kingdom) before she foundered. Monarch was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[33][34]

25 August

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List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1829
Ship State Description
Four Friends  United Kingdom The ship departed from Sunderland, County Durham for Scarborough, Yorkshire. Presumed subsequently foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands. A boat from the ship washed up at Filey, Yorkshire in early September.[35]

26 August

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List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1829
Ship State Description
Alert  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked at Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of all hands.[36]
Lord Hill  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the mouth of the River Tees.[37]
Mary  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Padstow, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bideford, Devon to Portreath, Cornwall.[38]

27 August

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List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1829
Ship State Description
Alert  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Holyhead, Anglesey with the loss of all hands.[27]
Alfred  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.[39]
Davies Hall  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Great Orme Head, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Beaumaris, Anglesey.[27]
Harford  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Baggy Lip, in the Bristol Channel off the coast of Devon with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to Swansea, Glamorgan.[27]
Helen  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Cloughey Bay with the loss of five of the fourteen people on board. she was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands and Trinidad.[24][33]
Liberty  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Ravenglass, Cumberland.[24]
Liver  United Kingdom The flat was driven ashore at the Point of Ayr with the loss of two of the four people on board.[38]
Lord Ebrington  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Ballywalter, County Down.[27] She was on a voyage from Ayr to Dublin.[40] Lord Ebrington was refloated on 5 September and beached at Ballyferris, County Down.[39]
Mary  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Padstow, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bideford, Devon to St. Ives, Cornwall.[41]
Minerva  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Ballycastle, County Antrim with the loss of eight of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to "Wyburg".[42]
Myrtle  United Kingdom The ship was lost at Cemaes Bay, Anglesey with the loss of two of her crew.[38]
Nancy  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was beached in the "Birken Isles". She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Wick, Caithness.[43]
Sisters  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in Ramsay Sound.[27]
Sophia  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Parton, Cumberland with the loss of all hands except her captain.[40]
Thomas and Jane  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Padstow with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Cork to Southampton, Hampshire.[38][44]
Vigilant  United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken wreck and sank in the North SeaScarborough. Her four crew survived.[15]
William McGillaray  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Newry, County Antrim. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Newry.[33]

28 August

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List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1829
Ship State Description
Agestor  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Horns Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.[28]
Camilla  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Caernarfon. She was on a voyage from Cocagne, New Brunswick, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.[38]
Crisis  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Maplin Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex.[45] She was refloated on 13 September and taken in to the River Orwell.[31]
Enterprise  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Filey, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.[21]
Friends  United Kingdom The barque was lost on the West Hoyle Sandbank, in Liverpool Bay with the loss of four of her twelve crew.[38]
Graf von Munster  Kingdom of Hanover The ship departed from Carolinensiel for Liverpool. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[34]
Helford  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Baggy Point, Devon with the loss of all on board. She was on a voyage from Truro, Cornwall to Swansea, Glamorgan.[46][47]
Lilly  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Wallasey, Cheshire.[38]
Martha  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America to Fishguard.[27]
Mary Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Widemouth Bay.[27]
Minerva  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Fair Head, County Antrim with the loss of eight lives. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland.[37]
Natches  Netherlands The ship was lost near Blankenberge, West Flanders with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from "Maranzas" to Antwerp.[48]
New Blessing  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Barmouth, Merionethshire.[27]
Olive and Eliza  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Liverpool. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to .[38]
Ploughman  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Upgang, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Rochester, Kent.[15]
Rumbold  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Carnarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to London.[38]
Swallow  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in Carnarvon Bay. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Newfoundland, British North America.[33]
Tredegar  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in St Brides Bay. Her crew were rescued.[27]
Vigilant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Scaleby Beck, Yorkshire. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Colchester, Essex[38]

29 August

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List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1829
Ship State Description
Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Plymouth, Devon.[37]
Ant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Happisburgh, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Goole, Yorkshire.[21]
Concordia  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Newcombe Sand, in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent and sank with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Tally-ho ( United Kingdom).[38]
Fanny  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Salthouse, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.[32]
Lara  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Dungeness All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Corfu, Greece via Malta.[40]

30 August

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List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1829
Ship State Description
Alsinea  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Götaland, Sweden.[49]

Unknown date

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1829
Ship State Description
Active  United Kingdom The sloop was lost in Church Bay.[38]
Catherine  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire She was on a voyage from Chester, Cheshire to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.[33]
Diligent  United Kingdom The ship struck rocks and sank off Corley Point, County Limerick. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Irvine, Ayrshire to Dundalk, County Louth.[19]
Friends  United Kingdom The ship was lost in the Skaggerak before 20 August.[50]
Lady Hope  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain after 15 August.[51]
Liberty  United Kingdom The ship was lost between Baltimore and Castlehaven, County Cork.[37]
Magdalene  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Umago, Austrian Empire. She was on a voyage from Trieste to Smyrna, Greece.[43]
Quest  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Brighton, Sussex before 18 August.[18]
Shepherd  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Brighton before 18 August.[18]
Spring  United Kingdom The ship ran aground off the mouth of the Tyne. She consequently sprang a leak and was towed in to South Shields, County Durham, where she sank. Spring was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[15]
Tyne  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Heneaga Reef, Bahamas.[32]
Volant  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Littlehampton, Sussex. She was refloated on 29 August and taken in to the harbour.[38]
Wellington  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Fishguard. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Riga, Russia.[33]

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