List of shipwrecks in August 1821
# List of shipwrecks in August 1821

The list of shipwrecks in August 1821 includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during August 1821.

## 2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Adele and Marie | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Patagonia. Her crew were rescued by Comete ( France. |
| Carlton | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Faial, Azores, Portugal. |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Rathlin Island, County Antrim. She was on a voyage from Maryport, Cumberland to Londonderry. |
| Prince Leopold | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. |

## 8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Diana | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Hillberry Island, in the River Dee. She was on a voyage from Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America to Chester. Diana was later refloated and taken in to "Doxpool". |

## 9 August

List of shipwrecks: 9 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Earl of Moira | United Kingdom | The ship struck a rock and foundered in Liverpool Bay off Hoylake, Lancashire with great loss of life. The Hoylake Lifeboat rescued 50-60 people. Earl of Moira was reported to be carrying up to 200 passengers in addition to her crew. There were 120 survivors, but only one crew member was amongst them. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dublin |

## 10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The sloop was destroyed by fire at Greenock, Renfrewshire. |
| Lady Lushington | United Kingdom | The East Indiaman was lost near Vizigapatam, India with the loss of fourteen lives. She was on a voyage from London to Madras and Bengal, India. |
| Leviathan | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the River Alt. She was on a voyage from Campeachy, Mexico to Liverpool, Lancashire. She was later refloated and taken in to Liverpool. |

## 11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Hope | United Kingdom | The ship capsized at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America. She was declared a total loss. |
| Lady Lushington | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked 30 nautical miles (56 km) north of the mouth of the Koringa River with the loss of seventeen lives. She was on a voyage from Colombo, Ceylon to Calcutta, India. |

## 12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Mary | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Dunmore, Ireland. She was on a voyage from Dungarvan, County Antrim to Liverpool, Lancashire. |

## 14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Blucher | United Kingdom | The ship departed from Jamaica for St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Bermuda and New Brunswick, British North America. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in the Magdalen Islands, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from North Shields, County Durham to Miramichi Bay. |
| General Brown | United States | The ship was wrecked on the Anegada Shoal, Virgin Islands. |
| Johanna | Prussia | The ship was driven ashore near Pillau. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Memel. |

## 15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Ann & Jane | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off North Foreland, Kent. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Blyth, Northumberland to Portsmouth, Hampshire. |

## 16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Andromache | United Kingdom | The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Tønsberg, Norway. Her crew were rescued. |

## 19 August

List of shipwrecks: 19 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Hannah | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in the Mississippi River 60 nautical miles (110 km) from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. She was refloated on 16 September. |

## 21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Frederika | Hamburg | The ship departed from Port-au-Prince, Haiti for Hamburg. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |

## 23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Thomas Gilbert | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Caledonia ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Miramichi Bay. |

## 26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Alligator | United Kingdom | The brig was captured off Jamaica by a pirate schooner. She was subsequently lost. Alligator was on a voyage from Jamaica to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Aurora | United Kingdom | The whaler was lost in the Davis Strait. |
| Carmarthen Packet | United Kingdom | The ship struck the Runnel Stone and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Land's End, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by Regent ( United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Carmarthen to London. |
| Dexterity | United Kingdom | The whaler was lost in the Davis Strait. |
| Hero | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean 5 leagues (15 nautical miles (28 km)) west north west of St. Ives, Cornwall. All on board were rescued by Hope ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Plymouth, Devon. |

## 28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Ceres | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on "Tanamiere Island", in the South Seas. |

## 30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Eliza & James | United Kingdom | The ship was run down and sunk off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by Good Design ( United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1821 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Rosalia | Russia | The ship was beached near Reval before 20 August. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. |
| Tentadora | Portugal | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Maranhão, Brazil. Her crew were rescued. |
