List of shipwrecks in August 1834

The list of shipwrecks in August 1834 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during August 1834.

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1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1834
Ship State Description
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with the steamship Lord Nelson ( United Kingdom) in the North Sea off Spurn Point, Yorkshire and was abandoned. She later drove ashore at Sandhale, Lincolnshire; was refloated and taken in to Grimsby, Lincolnshire.[1]

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1834
Ship State Description
Marion  United Kingdom The schooner departed from Archangelsk, Russia for Arbroath, Forfarshire. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[2][3]

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1834
Ship State Description
Adventurer  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the coast of Labrador, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Restigouche River to London.[4]
Elvira  United States The ship was wrecked at "Hurlgate". She was on a voyage from Windsor, Nova Scotia, British North America to New York.[5]
Lucy  United States The brig was struck by lightning off the mouth of the Clyde and foundered with the loss of nine of her ten crew. The survivor was rescued by the schooner Good Intent ( United Kingdom). Lucy was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Greenock, Renfrewshire, United Kingdom.[6]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1834
Ship State Description
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship struck a sandbank and sank in the North Sea off North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued.[7]

5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1834
Ship State Description
John Wallace  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on East Point, Prince Edward Island, British North America.[8]
Susan  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Hogsty Reef. Her crew were rescued.[9]

6 August

List of shipwrecks: 6 August 1834
Ship State Description
Conqueror  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Breaksea Point, Glamorgan.[10]

7 August

List of shipwrecks: 7 August 1834
Ship State Description
Senator  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Pentland Skerries, in the Firth of Forth. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[11]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1834
Ship State Description
Michigan  United States The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean (44°N 36°W / 44°N 36°W / 44; -36). She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Boston, Massachusetts.[12]

9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1834
Ship State Description
Helvetius  United Kingdom The whaler was lost east of the South Sandwich Islands. Her crew were rescued.[13]
Ontario  United States The brig was struck by lightning off Premantura, Austrian Empire and set on fire. She was abandoned the next day. Her crew were rescued by the brig Ciro ( Austrian Empire). Ontario was on a voyage from Mobile, Alabama to Trieste.[14][15]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1834
Ship State Description
Sarah and Frances  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with Hebden and sank in the Irish Sea. She was on a voyage from Wexford to Liverpool, Lancashire.[16]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1834
Ship State Description
Nandi  United Kingdom The ship ran agroundd on the Arklow Banks, in the Irish Sea. She sank on 16 August. Nandi was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[16][17]
Susan  United States The ship capsized. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New York to Port au Prince, Haiti.[18]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1834
Ship State Description
Maria Bremen The ship was in collision with Dalmatia ( United Kingdom) and sank in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. Maria was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Bremen.[17]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1834
Ship State Description
Favourite  United Kingdom The smack was wrecked on the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were resched.[17]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1834
Ship State Description
Charles Eaton  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef near the Sir Charles Hardy Islands. Her passengers and crew survived the wreck itself, but most of them were murdered by Torres Strait islanders.[19]
Smales  United Kingdom The ship struck a reef of the east coast of Gotland, Sweden and sank. She was on a voyage from Kronstadt, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.[20]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1834
Ship State Description
Henriette et Marie  France The ship was wrecked on the Point des Aigrettes, Île Bourbon.[21]
Janet Dunlop  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on the Northern Triangle, 60 nautical miles (110 km) off Belize City, British Honduras.[22]
William Pitt  United Kingdom The ship was run down and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Oran, Algeria with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.[23]

20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1834
Ship State Description
Ann  United Kingdom The schooner capsized and sank in the Kattegat. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire.[8][24]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1834
Ship State Description
Charles Eaton  United Kingdom The barque was wrecked on Double Island, in the Torres Strait. Five of the 32 people on board survived. They landed on Timor Laut, from where they departed some thirteen months later on a proa form Amboyna, Spanish East Indies. The rest were presumed to have drowned, been murdered or enslaved by the local inhabitants,[25][26][27] although at least eight or nine survivors were reported to be alive as of October 1835.[28]

25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1834
Ship State Description
Edward Lombe  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Port Jackson, New South Wales with the loss of twelve lives. She was on a voyage from London to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land and Sydney, New South Wales.[29]

26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1834
Ship State Description
Pearl  United States The schooner was wrecked on the Old Inlet Shoals, off Egg Harbor, New Jersey. She was on a voyage from "Newburn" to New York.[12]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1834
Ship State Description
HMRC Camelion Board of Customs The cutter was run down and sunk by HMS Castor ( Royal Navy) in the English Channel 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Dover, Kent with the loss of thirteen of her seventeen crew.[30]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1834
Ship State Description
Aid  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Point Escuminac, New Brunswick, British North America. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Miramichi, New Brunswick.[31]
Alida Hamburg The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Norderney, Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[32]
Pacific  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked north of the "port of Rio Grande" with the loss of four of her crew.[31][33]
San Joze Diligente  Brazil The ship was lost on the coast of Paraíba. She was on a voyage from Pernambuco to Maranhão.[34]

30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1834
Ship State Description
Adventure  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on Hogland, Russia and sank. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Dublin.[35]

31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1834
Ship State Description
Funchal  Portugal The brig sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean 90 nautical miles (170 km) off Cape Henry, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Madeira to New York, United States.[12][36]
Pax  Spain The ship was wrecked near Manila, Spanish East Indies. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Manila to Cádiz.[37]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1834
Ship State Description
Caroline  United States The ship was lost near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[38]
Mariner  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked before 7 August. She may have been attacked and plundered by pirates. The wreck was discovered at 8°46′N 24°17′W / 8.767°N 24.283°W / 8.767; -24.283 by Cervantes ( United Kingdom).[39][40]
Trial  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on "Boobare Point, Titmanan" before 12 August. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America.[35][41]
Vrienschap  Netherlands The ship departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United kingdom for Groningen. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[42]

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