List of shipwrecks in 1820

The list of shipwrecks in 1820 includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1820.

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|ship=Amie

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Saint Lucia

|desc=The drogher was wrecked at Saint Lucia in late January or early February.{{Cite news |title=Lloyd's Marine List – March 28. |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=3 April 1820 |issue=15380 }}

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|ship=Auguste

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was lost in the Old Bahama Channel. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Havana, Cuba.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006574233;view=1up;seq=70 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5572 |date=23 February 1821 }}

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|ship=Brothers

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The whaler was lost in the Davis Strait.

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|ship=Cruttendon

|flag={{flag|United States|1820}}

|desc=The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Havana, Cuba to Charleston, South Carolina. Her crew survived.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=318 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5539 |date=3 November 1820 }}

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|ship=Ebenezer

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was destroyed by fire in the River Plate.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=138 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5491 |date=16 May 1820 }}

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|ship=Eolus

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America. She was on a voyage from Barbados to St. Andrews.{{Cite news |title=Lloyd's Marine List – March 10. |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=13 March 1820 |issue=13571 }}

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|ship=Four Sons

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Puerto Rico to Tobago. Her crew were rescued.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006574233;view=1up;seq=34 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5562 |date=23 January 1821 }}

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|ship=Friends

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered. All on board were rescued by Deux Sœurs ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=REWARDS FOR RESCUING PERSONS IN DANGER AT SEA |date=1 April 1820 |page=3 |issue=10896A |column=D }}

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|ship=Friends

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the Bay of Fundy.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=345 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5546 |date=28 November 1820 }}

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|ship=Grape

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Dart ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006574233;view=1up;seq=26 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5560 |date=16 January 1821 }}

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|ship=Highflyer

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The whaler was lost in ice off Greenland.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=217 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5515 |date=8 August 1820 }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(untitled) |date=21 November 1820 |page=2 |issue=11697 |column=C }} Her crew were rescued.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=221 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5516 |date=11 August 1820 }}

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|ship=Hippolite

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was lost on the coast of East Florida, New Spain. She was on a voyage from Havana to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=378 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5554 |date=26 December 1820 }}

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|ship=Hope

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The whaler was lost off Greenland. Her crew were rescued.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=197 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5510 |date=21 July 1820 }}

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|ship=Johannah

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked off Poorhead, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Cork to Barbados and Trinidad.{{Cite news |title=Lloyd's Marine List June 30. |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=3 July 1820 |issue=15419 }}

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|ship=John & Sarah

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was lost at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=382 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5555 |date=29 December 1820 }}

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|ship=Liverpool

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Cape St. James, Africa. She was on a voyage from Old Calabar to Liverpool.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |date=6 September 1820 |issue=15436 }}

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|ship=Margaret

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef off the coast of British Honduras.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |date=4 November 1820 |issue=15487 }} Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Mary

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Carriacou

|desc=The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Levera, Grenada in late January or early February.

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|ship={{USS|Niagara|1813|6}}

|flag={{navy|United States|1819}}

|desc=The brig was scuttled in Misery Bay, Lake Erie sometime in 1820. Refloated in 1913 and rebuilt for use as a museum ship.{{cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.103308610&view=1up&seq=321 |title=American Marine Engineer July, 1911 |publisher=National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States |via=Haithi Trust |access-date=9 December 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/brig-niagara |title=The Brig Niagara |publisher= Pennsylvania Center for the book |access-date=9 December 2020}}

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|ship=Nore

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked off Barbados. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to a Bolivian port.{{Cite news |title=London |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=30 June 1820 |issue=1828 }}

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|ship=Oceano

|flag={{flag|Portugal|1816}}

|desc=The ship foundered off Maranhão, Brazil. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Porto to Maranhão.{{Cite news |title=Lloyd's Marine List – Dec. 5. |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=11 December 1820 |issue=15488 }}

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|ship=Peggy

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned. Her crew were rescued by Mary ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Peggy was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=341 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5545 |date=24 November 1820 }}

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|ship={{ship|Spanish frigate|Prueba|1800|2}}

|flag={{navy|Spain|1795}}

|desc=The frigate foundered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(untitled) |date=21 October 1820 |page=3 |issue=11070 |column=E }}

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|ship=Resource

|flag={{flag|United States|1819}}

|desc=The ship was lost in the Marianas Islands.

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|ship=St. Jose Fama

|flag={{flag|Portugal|1816}}

|desc=The ship was lost in the Indian Ocean. She was on a voyage from Mozambique to Bombay, India. Her crew were rescued by the Portuguese Navy brig of war which was escorting her.{{Cite news |title=Lloyd's Marine List – March 21. |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |date=25 March 1820 |issue=15376 }}

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|ship=Tamar

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Bocas. She was on a voyage from Puerto Rico to Trinidad.

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|ship=Thomas Henry

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Venus ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Thomas Henry was on a voyage from Nova Scotia, British North America to Liverpool.{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006574233;view=1up;seq=38 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5563 |date=26 January 1821 }}

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|ship=Welcome Return

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The schooner sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|32|38|N|69|00|W}}).{{cite journal |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005778199;view=1up;seq=157 |title=The Marine List |journal=Lloyd's List |issue=5497 |date=6 June 1820 }}

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|ship=William

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked at New London, Prince Edward Island, British North America. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=PLYMOUTH |newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser |date=23 November 1820 |issue=2880 }} }}

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