List of shipwrecks in April 1833

The list of shipwrecks in April 1833 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during April 1833.

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1 April
List of shipwrecks: 1 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Caldecot Castle  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Aldeburgh, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London.[1]
Huddersfield  United Kingdom The ship tan aground on the Rose Sand, in the North Sea off Saltfleet, Lincolnshire. Her crew were rescued. She broke up on 6 April. Huddersfield was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to London.[2][3]
Opsrey  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the North Rock, Dorset. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Down to London.[4]

2 April
List of shipwrecks: 2 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Hope  United Kingdom The barque was driven ashore on the coast of Alabama, United States.[5]
Eugen  Prussia The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Memel. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Memel.[6]

4 April
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Anacreon  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Hogg Island, Virginia, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Virginia.[7]

5 April
List of shipwrecks: 5 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Caledonia  United Kingdom The ship was holed by her anchor and sank at Troon, Ayrshire.[2]
Palm  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and damageded on Scharhörn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands to Hamburg.[2] Palm was refloated on 10 April and taken in to Cuxhaven.[6]

8 April
List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
John and Mary  United Kingdom The cutter was wrecked on Inistrahull Island, County Donegal. Her five crew were rescued.[8]

10 April
List of shipwrecks: 10 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
President  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Arklow Banks, in the Irish Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Londonderry.[6]

11 April
List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
John Jersey The ship was wrecked at Seaford, Sussex. Her crew were rescued by HMRC Stork ( Board of Customs).[9]
Providence  United Kingdom The ship was iun collision with Swift ( United Kingdom and sank in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued.[6]

14 April
List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Rifleman  United Kingdom The ship departed from Hobart, Van Diemen's Land for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[10] She may have been wrecked in the Auckland Islands, New Zealand.[11]
Waterloo  United Kingdom The ship was sunk by ice in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to British North America.[12]

20 April
List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Crown  United Kingdom The ship was lost in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[13][14]

21 April
List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Anna Grenada The drogher was lost at Grenada.[15]

22 April
List of shipwrecks: 22 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Dolphin British North America The ship was wrecked near Portugal Cove, Nova Scotia.. She was on a voyage from Halifax to Portugal Cove.[5]
Friendship  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Riga, Russia.[16]

24 April
List of shipwrecks: 24 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Melpomene  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean. She was abandoned three days later. Her crew were rescued by Isabella ( United Kingdom). Melpomene was on a voyage from the Clyde to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[17][18]
Nymph British North America The ship departed from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland Colony, for a Portuguese port. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all hands.[19]

25 April
List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Anne  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the River Severn. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney to an Irish port.[20]

26 April
List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Margaret  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in Caernarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Preston, Lancashire.[21]
Mary Ann  United States The ship was destroyed by fire about 55 leagues (165 nautical miles (306 km) off St. Jago de Cuba, Cuba with some loss of life. She was on a voyage from New York to the South Seas.[22]
Olive  United Kingdom The ship capsized in the Bight of Benin with the loss of a crew member.[23]

28 April
List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
America  United States The schooner was wrecked on Georges Island, in Boston Harbor.[24]

29 April
List of shipwrecks: 29 April 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Comtesse de Bouille  France The ship was wrecked at Saint-Pierre, Martinique.[25]
Joven Miguel  Spain The ship was lost off Crooked Island, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from St. Andero to Havana, Cuba.[26]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1833
ShipCountryDescription
Heroina  Portugal The schooner was wrecked off Old Harbour, Jamaica. Two hundred and thirty-two slaves were rescued.[27]
Highlander  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at "Holyhaven", Essex.[28]
Liberty  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned before 3 April and was subsequently driven ashore on Colonsay, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.[28]
Johanna  United States The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Virginia to Grenada.[29]
Mexico  Mexico The ship departed from Tampico for New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Her crew subsequently mutinied, murdered her captain and passengers, then scuttled the vessel off Cape San Antonio, Cuba.[30]
Olive Branch British North America The schooner capsized in late April.[5]
Robert British North America The ship was wrecked in late April.[5]
Selina British North America The ship was abandoned at sea in late April.[5]
Sir Charles Price  United Kingdom The whaler was wrecked in the Society Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the South Seas to London.[31]
Three Friends  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Tampico, Mexico in late April. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to Tampico.[25]
Triune  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Viana de Castelano, Portugal with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Gibraltar.[32]
Tweed  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Heneaga Reef before 26 April. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.[5]

References
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  2. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17430. 13 April 1833.
  3. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1841. 6 April 1833. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  4. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 19848. 8 April 1833.
  5. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17461. 10 June 1833.
  6. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17433. 20 April 1833.
  7. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1866. 6 May 1833.
  8. "Belfast Ship News". The Belfast News-Letter. No. 10002. 23 April 1833.
  9. "Sussex". Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. No. 1759. 24 June 1833.
  10. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17534. 30 November 1833.
  11. "HOBART TOWN SHIPPING". The Sydney Monitor. 7 March 1834.
  12. "Shipping Intelligence". Hull Packet. No. 2537. 5 July 1833.
  13. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1904. 19 June 1833.
  14. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15201. London. 26 June 1833. col F, p. 6.
  15. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15192. London. 15 June 1833. col F, p. 6.
  16. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 19872. 6 May 1833.
  17. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15202. London. 27 June 1833. col E, p. 3.
  18. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17470. 1 July 1833.
  19. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17476. 15 July 1833.
  20. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15150. London. 27 April 1833. col E, p. 6.
  21. "Ship News". The Standard. No. 1860. 29 April 1833.
  22. "Loss at Sea". Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet & Plymouth Journal. No. 1591. 21 December 1833.
  23. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17503. 15 September 1833.
  24. "1832-1836". downtothesea.com. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  25. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17472. 6 July 1833.
  26. "Ship News". The Morning Chronicle. No. 19910. 19 June 1833.
  27. "(untitled)". The Standard. No. 1893. 6 June 1833.
  28. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15142. London. 18 April 1833. col F, p. 6.
  29. "Shipping Intelligence". Caledonian Mercury. No. 17454. 25 May 1833.
  30. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15414. London. 1 March 1834. col E, p. 4.
  31. "Ship News". The Times. No. 15281. London. 27 September 1833. col B, p. 4.
  32. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 1154. 14 June 1833.
Ship events in 1833
Ship launches: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838
Ship commissionings: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838
Ship decommissionings: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838
Shipwrecks: 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838

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