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The list of shipwrecks in April 1825 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during April 1825.

3 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1825
Ship State Description
Independence  United States The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Maracaibo, Gran Colombia.[1]

6 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 6 April 1825
Ship State Description
Hiram  United States The ship was wrecked at Ocracoke, North Carolina. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Jamaica.[1]
Industry  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on the Sherry of Ness, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Drontheim, Norway to Portaferry, County Antrim. Industry was refloated on 14 April and taken in to Stromness, Orkney Islands, for repairs.[2]
Mechanic  United Kingdom The ship ran aground in the River Shannon. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Mechanic was refloated the next day and taken in to Limerick for repairs.[3]

7 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 7 April 1825
Ship State Description
Atlanta  United Kingdom The ship sank off Harwich, Essex. She was refloated on 18 June and beached.[4]
Reindeer  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Heneaga. She was on a voyage from Wilmington, Delaware to Jamaica.[5]

8 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 8 April 1825
Ship State Description
Syren  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Southend, Essex. She was on a voyage from London to Cork and Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[3]

9 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 9 April 1825
Ship State Description
Royal George  United Kingdom The whaler was lost at Wahoo (Oahu).[6]

11 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 11 April 1825
Ship State Description
Eglington  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at St. Ann's Head, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[7]
Maria Agnetha  Netherlands The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Surinam.[8]

12 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 12 April 1825
Ship State Description
Boldon  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Sandhammer Reef, in the Baltic Sea. Her crew were rescued.[9]
Julian  United Kingdom The ship was holed by her anchor at Liverpool, Lancashire and was wrecked.[10]

13 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 13 April 1825
Ship State Description
Jane  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Ertholmene, Denmark. She was on a voyage from London to Dantzig.[11]
William  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Saint Lucia to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.[12]

14 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 14 April 1825
Ship State Description
Comus  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jersey, Channel Islands to Swansea, Glamorgan.[13]
Paul Frederick Rostock The galiot sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea.[9][14]
Teche  United States
Teche.

The steamboat was set on fire and sunk in the Mississippi River by a boiler explosion with the loss of three lives. Another twelve to eighteen people died when a boat from the steamboat Washington ( United States) with survivors on board capsized.[15]

15 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 15 April 1825
Ship State Description
Drie Gesusters  France The galiot was wrecked on the coast of Jutland. She was on a voyage from Brest, Finistère to a Baltic port.[9][16]
Henry  United Kingdom The ship was lost in the Torres Strait. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sydney to Batavia.[17][18]

16 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 16 April 1825
Ship State Description
Barbara  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Torekov Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Memel, Prussia.[19]
Britannia  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Torekov, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Dantzig.[19]
Caroline  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Helsingborg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from London to Pillau, Prussia.[20]
Eleonora  Prussia The ship was lost in the Swinebottoms. She was on a voyage from London to Pillau.[11]
Flora  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Torekov Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn, Norfolk to Memel.[19]
Janets  United Kingdom The ship was lost near Torekov. Her crew were rescued.[19]
Liebe Dantzig The ship was lost in Torekov Bay. Her crew were rescued.[19]
Margaret  United Kingdom The ship was run down and sunk in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire by Sally ( United Kingdom). Her crew were rescued.[21]
Mary & Elizabeth  United Kingdom The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Inverness to Aberdeen.[21]
Neptunus Dantzig The ship was driven ashore near Landscrona, Sweden. She was on a voyage from London to Dantzig.[19]
Oscar  United Kingdom The ship was lost on Gotland, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Leith, Lothian to Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2]

17 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 17 April 1825
Ship State Description
Alexander de Bruyer Stettin The ship foundered in the Skaggerak on or about this date. She was on voyage from London, United Kingdom to a Baltic port.[4][22]
Christina Maria Sweden The ship capsized off Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Kalmar to Copenhagen, Denmark.[11]
Eliza  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near "Polski". She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to Königsburg, Prussia.[9]
Jane  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Helsingborg, Sweden. She was on a voyage from London to Riga, Russia.[20]
Mercurius  Hamburg The ship was abandoned in the North Sea between Heligoland and Wangeroog, Kingdom of Hanover. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Hamburg.[19]
Minerva  Brazil The full-rigged ship was wrecked 6 leagues (18 nautical miles (33 km)) from Bahia. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Portugal.[23]
Thomas Hodgson  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Pillau, Prussia. She was refloated on 24 July and taken in to Pillau.[19][24]
Vrow Gerken  Netherlands The ship foundered in the Zuiderzee off Hoorn, North Holland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde, France to Hamburg.[25]

18 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 18 April 1825
Ship State Description
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was lost off the coast of Jutland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Memel, Prussia.[9]
Eliza United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jamaica The drogging sloop was wrecked in Rodney Hall Bay.[4]
Mars Dantzig The ship was abandoned in the North Sea off Baltrum, Kingdom of Hanover. Her crew were rescued by America ( United States). Mars was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Dantzig.[19] She subsequently came ashore on Baltrum and was wrecked.[26]

19 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 19 April 1825
Ship State Description
Augustina  Norway The ship was discovered abandoned in the North Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Goeree, Zeeland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Caen, Calvados, France to Christiansand. Augustina was taken in to Ostend, West Flanders, Netherlands.[25][19]
Goede Hoop  Netherlands The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Jutland.[26]

20 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 20 April 1825
Ship State Description
Mary  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at North Shields, County Durham and was scuttled.[26]

21 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 21 April 1825
Ship State Description
Asia  Hamburg The ship ran aground off Callantsoog, Groningen, Netherlands and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from China to Hamburg.[25] Asia was refloated on 19 May and taken into the Nieuw Diep.[1]
Julia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Guernsey The ship was wrecked at Gorey, Jersey, Channel Islands.[25]

23 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 23 April 1825
Ship State Description
Dorinda  United Kingdom The cutter foundered in the Irish Sea off Dublin with the loss of all hands.[9]
Freyheiden  Denmark The ship was wrecked on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued.[25]

25 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 25 April 1825
Ship State Description
Princess of Wales United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Jamaica The cutter was wrecked at Bahía Honda, Cuba. Her crew were rescued.[27]

26 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1825
Ship State Description
Catharina Stettin The ship was abandoned off the coast of Jutland. She was on a voyage from London, United Kingdom to Stettin.[20] Catharina was subsequently taken in to Helsingør, Denmark, by Edward ( Prussia).[11]
Maria Catharina Rostock The ship ran aground and was wrecked off the "Sloot". She was on a voyage from Rostock to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.[9]

27 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 27 April 1825
Ship State Description
Lady Ann  United Kingdom The ship caught fire at North Shields, County Durham and was scuttled.[9]

28 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 28 April 1825
Ship State Description
Blackbird  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked north of Wexford. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cork to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[9]
Claremont  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Water Key, off the coast of Haiti. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Jamaica.[28]

30 April[edit]

List of shipwrecks: 30 April 1825
Ship State Description
Elizabeth & Jane  United Kingdom The ship sank at Margate, Kent.[9]
James  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Point Lepreau, New Brunswick, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Saint John, New Brunswick.[12]

Unknown date[edit]

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1825
Ship State Description
Anna Charlotte Stettin The ship foundered off Anholt, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Stettin to London, United Kingdom.[25]
Catharine  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Three Sisters ( United Kingdom).[1]
Diana  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Indian Chief ( United States). Diana was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.[29]
Doris  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Heneaga. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Saint Domingo to Falmouth, Cornwall.[1]
Hebe  United Kingdom The smack departed from Jersey, Channel Islands for Colchester, Essex in late April. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[30]
Henry  United States The ship was wrecked on Dry Tortuga. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Liverpool.[4]
Jonge Frederick  Netherlands The ship was driven ashore on Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Memel, Prussia.[19]
Margaret  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with May off Ballina, County Mayo and was lost. She was on a voyage from Ballina to Liverpool.[25]
Mary & Elizabeth  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Mayaguana, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[4]
O'Cain  United States The ship was wrecked near the mouth of the Maule River. Her crew were rescued.[31]
Opinion  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Schmolsin, Prussia before 25 April. She was on a voyage from London to Dantzig.[9]
Oscar Sweden The ship struck a rock off Capo Passero, Sicily and foundered. Her crew were rescued by Pacific ( United Kingdom).[32]
Place  United Kingdom The ship foundered off Polperro, Cornwall in late April. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Fowey, Cornwall.[26]
Pollux Dantzig The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea.[19]
Sarah  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at the mouth of the Mississippi River. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.[1]
Saunders Hill  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Kattegat before 23 April with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to Saint Petersburg, Russia.[9]
Thomas Hodgson  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Pillau, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Pillau to Hull, Yorkshire. Thomas Hodgson was refloated on 24 July.[33]

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