Azores's Shipwrecks
Archival Research by Paulo Monteiro
Fist half of the XIXth century
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Identification |
Year |
Date of Loss |
Island |
Place of loss |
Name |
Type |
Observations |
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349 |
1801 |
Fev |
S. Miguel |
Santa Clara, Ponta Delgada |
Julia |
English brig |
Partly salvaged |
|
350 |
1801 |
Fev |
S. Miguel |
Santa Clara, Ponta Delgada |
Providence |
English schooner |
Captain Jeremiah Bowen, partly salvaged |
|
351 |
1801 |
25-Jun |
S. Miguel |
Areal S. Francisco, Ponta Delgada |
Eins Gesundheit |
Prussian galleot |
Captain Bartels Faulsen Freemann |
|
352 |
1801 |
Set |
S. Miguel |
Near fortifications of Ponta Delgada |
Paz |
Danish galleot |
Captain Lutje Wesch, salvaged |
|
353 |
1803 |
Ago |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada |
? |
Spanish galley |
|
|
354 |
1803 |
Ago |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada |
? |
Unknown ship |
|
|
355 |
1803 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
Amizade |
Portuguese brig |
Smuggler, from Madeira |
|
356 |
1806 |
Winter |
S. Miguel |
Vila Franca Islet |
Lochyan |
English sloop |
Salvaged |
|
357 |
1807 |
13-Fev |
S. Miguel |
? |
Woodcock |
English schooner |
10 guns, built 1806, Captain Isaac Smith-Collet |
|
358 |
1807 |
13-Fev |
S. Miguel |
? |
Wagtail |
English schooner |
8 gun, Captain William Cullis, built 1806 |
|
189 |
1807 |
? |
Graciosa |
Santa Cruz harbor |
Nossa Srª Rosário |
Portuguese brig |
Salvaged |
|
359 |
1810 |
? |
S. Miguel |
Coastline |
Sisters |
English brig |
|
|
70 |
1810 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Susana |
Galley |
|
|
267 |
1811 |
04-Dez |
Terceira |
Angra bay |
? |
Seven ships lost |
Southwest storm |
|
360 |
1812 |
Abril |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada harbor |
Adventure |
English sloop |
|
|
361 |
1812 |
Maio |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada |
América e Providência |
Portuguese brig |
Run aground |
|
71 |
1813 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Delphim |
Portuguese brig |
|
|
362 |
1813 |
01-Fev |
S. Miguel |
Vila Franca Islet |
Restaurador |
Portuguese brig |
|
|
72 |
1814 |
26-Set |
Faial |
40 yards from Santa Cruz Castle |
General Armstrong |
American brig |
Corsair of the War of 1812, sunk by english man o'war, Captani Samuel Reid, 246 tons |
|
363 |
1814 |
31-Jan |
S. Miguel |
Povoação beach |
John |
English brig |
|
|
126 |
1814 |
Dez |
Pico |
Vila das Lajes coastline |
Rogotella |
French schooner |
|
|
364 |
1815 |
? |
S, Miguel |
? |
America |
Portuguese brig |
Salvaged |
|
274 |
1817 |
? |
Terceira |
Sunken reef at Sao Mateus coast |
S.José do Bonfim |
Portuguese ship |
One dead, cargo lost |
|
365 |
1817 |
26-Set |
S. Miguel |
Pier of Ponta Delgada harbor |
? |
English brig |
|
|
275 |
1819 |
07-Jan |
Terceira |
Santa Bárbara coastline |
? |
Portuguese ship |
Six dead, some rescued |
|
155 |
1821 |
02-Mar |
S. Jorge |
Calheta pier |
Conceição e Almas |
Portuguese brig, from Ponta Delgada |
|
|
127 |
1822 |
Summer |
Pico |
Canal de S. Jorge, 3 NM from the coast |
? |
Portuguese ship |
Twenty seven dead |
|
73 |
1825 |
22-Jan |
Faial |
? |
? |
3 Ships |
|
|
128 |
1824 |
27-Set |
Pico |
Canal S. Jorge, in face of Ponta do Portal |
? |
Ship |
Thre dead |
|
76 |
1825 |
22-Set |
Faial |
Almoxarife beach |
? |
? |
Eleven dead |
|
156 |
1825 |
22-Set |
S. Jorge |
Velas-Areia das caravelas |
? |
? |
Crew and cargo rescued |
|
157 |
1825 |
23-Set |
S. Jorge |
Juncal de São Tiago |
S. Bartolomeu |
Portuguese ship |
Broke in two |
|
10 |
1828 |
Maio |
Flores |
Fajã Grande coastline |
Elisabeth |
English brig |
With brandy, salvaged |
|
276 |
1829 |
11-Ago |
Terceira |
Praia da Vitória |
? |
Disembark boat |
120 granadiers dead |
|
277 |
1831 |
17-Abr |
Terceira |
Coast |
? |
Portuguese Schooner |
From the Liberal fleet |
|
366 |
1831 |
10-Ago |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada harbor |
? |
Packet ship |
From Pernambuco, all officers dead |
|
158 |
1832 |
27-Jan |
S. Jorge |
Fajã das Almas |
? |
? |
Ship from Calheta, with grain |
|
78 |
1833 |
? |
Faial |
Rocks to the SW of Horta bay |
King George |
English bark |
Crew rescued |
|
278 |
1832 |
18-Fev |
Terceira |
? |
Nerco |
Portuguese yacht |
|
|
79 |
1835 |
? |
Faial |
? |
? |
Schooner |
|
|
279 |
1836 |
? |
Terceira |
Coast of Zimbral |
? |
Galley |
Anchor was salvaged |
|
280 |
1841 |
21-Jan |
Terceira |
Porto Novo, Angra bay |
D. Clara |
Portuguese schooner |
Run aground |
|
367 |
1841 |
27-Jan |
S. Miguel |
Relva coastline |
Jane |
English sloop |
|
|
281 |
1841 |
18-Fev |
Terceira |
Praia da Vitória |
Hector |
English bark |
From Liverpool |
|
282 |
1841 |
10-Mar |
Terceira |
Porto Novo, Angra bay |
Mirthe |
English schooner |
10.35 am |
|
283 |
1841 |
10-Mar |
Terceira |
Prainha, Angra bay |
Louise |
English schooner |
09.30 pm |
|
368 |
1841 |
25-Mar |
S. Miguel |
? |
Mariana |
English schooner |
|
|
369 |
1841 |
08-Mai |
S. Miguel |
Heading to Vila Franca |
? |
? |
Nine dead |
|
159 |
1843 |
29-Nov |
S. Jorge |
Hit a sunked hull |
George Gustavi |
French brig |
From Senegal |
|
370 |
1843 |
10-Abr |
S. Miguel |
Near the Duque de Bragança artillery position, Ponta Delgada |
Paquete dos Açores |
Portuguese yacht |
|
|
371 |
1844 |
15-Fev |
S. Miguel |
Corner of the wall near the beach of S. Francisco, Ponta Delgada |
Nova Sociedade |
Portuguese yacht |
|
|
284 |
1845 |
10-Mar |
Terceira |
Porto Novo, Angra bay |
Belle of Plymouth |
English schooner |
|
|
372 |
1845 |
20-Abr |
S. Miguel |
Reef of Cerco, Ponta Delgada |
Gem |
English schooner |
|
|
373 |
1845 |
21-Abr |
S. Miguel |
Rosto de Cão beach |
Melitão |
Portuguese yacht |
04.00 pm |
|
285 |
1845 |
Out |
Terceira |
Heading to Angra |
? |
Portuguese ship |
|
|
286 |
1846 |
08-Mar |
Terceira |
Ponta da Queimada |
? |
Boat |
Twenty seven dead, from Calheta |
|
80 |
1846 |
28-Fev |
Faial |
Between the harbor and the castle |
Balius |
Schooner |
|
|
287 |
1846 |
07-Jan |
Terceira |
? |
Ellen |
English sloop |
|
|
289 |
1846 |
08-Jan |
Terceira |
? |
Duqueza da Terceira |
Portuguese patacho |
|
|
374 |
1846 |
24-Dez |
S. Miguel |
Calheta do Corpo Santo, Ponta Delgada |
Herbert |
English schooner |
|
|
375 |
1847 |
30-Jan |
S. Miguel |
? |
Tio e Sobrinhos |
Portuguese yacht |
|
|
35 |
1848 |
24-Fev |
Corvo |
? |
Agnes |
Brig |
|
|
160 |
1848 |
? |
S. Jorge |
Ponta de Rosais |
? |
? |
Run aground, cargo of wood |
|
290 |
1849 |
17-Dez |
Terceira |
Monte Brasil |
Sofia |
English schooner |
|
|
376 |
1849 |
30-Dez |
S. Miguel |
Rocks of the market of Corpo Santo |
Novo Viajante |
Portuguese patacho |
|
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377 |
1850 |
18-Jul |
S. Miguel |
Lagoa, Porto dos Carneiros |
Luso |
Portuguese steamship |
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