List of shipwrecks in April 1829
# List of shipwrecks in April 1829

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

## 3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Myrtle | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on Ragged Island, Bahamas. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America. |

## 4 April

List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Hope | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Fisherman's Flat, off Calcutta, India. Her crew were rescued. |

## 9 April

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Glasgow | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the North Sea off Hartlepool, County Durham. She was refloated on 21 April and taken in to Hartlepool in a severely damaged condition. |
| Grabe | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off Bangor, Caernarfonshire. She was on a voyage from Bangor to Ipswich, Suffolk. |
| Hawk | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea off Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland with the loss of two lives. |

## 10 April

List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Jessie | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked off "Grassholm Island, Jutland. She was on a voyage from Funen, Denmark to London. |

## 11 April

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Betsey | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Newcombe Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. |

## 12 April

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Henry & Harriet | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Sumburgh, Shetland Islands with the loss of four of her crew. |

## 15 April

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Ayr | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Witsand Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newport, Monmouthshire to Penzance, Cornwall. |
| Letitia Tennant | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Limerick to London. |

## 19 April

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Neptune | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at the mouth of the Nun River, Nigeria. Her crew were rescued. |

## 20 April

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Harper | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Southport, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Westport, County Mayo to Southport. |
| Potton | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off Flores Island, Azores. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Sierra Leone to London. |

## 21 April

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Achilles | United Kingdom | The ship struck a rock. She was towed into Loch Tarbert in a sinking state. |

## 23 April

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Echo | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and capsized at Bolderāja, Russia. |
| Marwood | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Bolderāja. |
| Providentia | Duchy of Holstein | The ship foundered in the North Sea off the Haisborough Sands. She was on a voyage from Kiel to London, United Kingdom. |
| Thomas Hodgson | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Bolderāja. |

## 24 April

List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| James | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to London. |
| John and Mary | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Eastbourne, Sussex. She was later refloated. |
| Jolly Sailor | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Eastbourne. |
| Sir George Osborne | United Kingdom | The whaler ran aground in the Seychelles. She broke up after her crew had abandoned her. Her cargo of 1,000 barrels of whale oil was retrieved. |

## 27 April

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Bee | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Sunderland, County Durham. |
| George & Henry | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Sunderland. |
| Hope | United Kingdom | The brig foundered in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon with the loss of six of her seven crew. |
| Perdaves | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at "Rosecastle". |

## 28 April

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Baring | United Kingdom | The ship departed from South Shields, County Durham for Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands. |
| Diamond | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the coast of County Limerick with the loss of two lives. |
| Esther | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Robin Hoods Bay, Yorkshire where she was wrecked. Her crew were rescued. |
| Fame | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Holyhead, Anglesey. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Palermo, Sicily to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Felicia | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Holyhead. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to "Zelling". |
| Fowler | United Kingdom | The sloop was driven ashore near Whitby, Yorkshire. |
| Friends | United Kingdom | The sloop was driven ashore near Whitby. |
| Harlequin | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Holyhead. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pernambuco, Brazil to Liverpool. |
| Hope | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Hartland Point, Devon with the loss of all bar her captain. She was on a voyage from London to Bridgwater, Somerset. |
| Hope | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on South Georgia. |
| Iona or Jona | United Kingdom | The ship struck the Kettlebottom Sand, in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth and foundered. Her crew were rescued. |
| John | United Kingdom | The ship struck the Barber Sand, in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth and foundered. Her crew were rescued. |
| Matilda | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Padstow, Cornwall with the loss of three lives. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. |
| Portsoy | United Kingdom | The sloop was wrecked at Portsoy, Aberdeenshire. She was on a voyage from Macduff, Aberdeenshire to London. |
| Superb | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on the Shipwash Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex with the loss of two of her five crew. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to London. Survivors, and crew members from the smack Paul Pry ( United Kingdom), which had gone to her assistance and were stranded on the wreck when their boat was smashed, were rescued by Lively ( United Kingdom). |

## 29 April

List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Alexander | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Bangor, Caernarfonshire. |
| HMS Barham | Royal Navy | The third rate ship of the line ran aground off Bonaire and was severely damaged. She was refloated the next day having thrown 37 cannon overboard. |
| Betsey | United Kingdom | The schooner foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all six crew. |
| Better Luck Still | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from London to Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. |
| Brothers | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Head Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from Inverness to London. |
| Buboa | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. |
| Fanny | United Kingdom | The sloop was wrecked off North Somercotes, Lincolnshire with the loss of all seven people on board. |
| Kate | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Mockbeggar, Cheshire. |
| Margaret | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near North Sunderland, County Durham. She was on a voyage from Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. |
| New Albion | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Scarborough, Yorkshire with the loss of three lives. |
| Phœnix | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from London to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. |
| Sarah and Eliza | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Appledore, Devon. She was on a voyage from Gloucester to Sunderland, County Durham. |
| Star | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at North Somercotes. Her crew were rescued. |

## 30 April

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Henry | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off Saint Tudwal's Islands, Caernarfonshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Cardiff, Glamorgan. |
| Perseverance | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent with the loss of four of her nine crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Dublin. |
| Temple | United Kingdom | The ship was lost in the "Camoynas". |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in April 1829 :

| Ship | Country | Description |
| - | - | - |
| Cambria | United Kingdom | The collier foundered in the English Channel off Portland, Dorset in early April with some loss of life. |
| Chieftain | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Herne Bay, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Saint Vincent. |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked whilst on a voyage from Alnmouth to London in early April. |
