August
- August, 1933 Glory, steamer, lost off Nags Head
- August 4, 1918 O.B. Jennings, steamer, shelled and sunk by U-140; 1 killed
- August 5, 1918 Stanley M. Seaman, schooner, shelled and scuttled by U-140
- August 6, 1918 Merak, steamer, shelled and sunk by U-140
- August 6, 1918 Diamond Shoals, lightship, shelled and sunk by U-140
- August 9, 1900 Palestro, steamer, lost off Cape Hatteras
- August 10, 1898 S.G. Hart, schooner, lost off Little Kinnakeet
- August 11, 1899 June, sloop, lost off Oregon Inlet
- August 16, 1899 Aaron Reppard, schooner, lost off Gull Shoal (near Salvo); 5 killed
- August 16, 1899 Florence Randall, schooner, lost off Big Kinnakeet
- August 16, 1918 Mirlo, tanker, mined and sunk; 10 killed
- August 16, 1935 Nomis, schooner, lost off Hatteras Inlet
- August 17, 1899 Fred Walton, hulk, lost off Portsmouth
- August 17, 1899 Lydia A. Willis, schooner, lost off Portsmouth; 2 killed
- August 17, 1899 Robert W. Dasey, schooner, lost off Little Kinnakeet
- August 17, 1899 Priscilla, barkentine, lost off Gull Shoal (near Salvo); 4 killed
- August 17, 1911 Willie H. Child, schooner, lost off Gull Shoal (near Salvo)
- August 17, 1918 Nordhav, schooner, shelled and sunk by U-117
- August 18, 1899 Minnie Bergen, schooner, lost off Chicamacomico
- August 19, 1918 Proteus, passenger-freighter, sunk in collision with SS Cushing
- August 23, 1925 Victoria S., schooner, lost off Ocracoke
- August 23, 1933 G.A. Kohler, schooner, lost off Gull Shoal (near Salvo)
- August 24, 1899 Henrietta Hill, schooner, lost off Portsmouth
- August 24, 1910 Catherine M. Monohan, schooner, foundered off Cape Hatteras
- August 26, 1911 James Davidson, schooner, lost off Cape Fear
- August 26, 1957 Tarpon, submarine, foundered under tow
- August 29, 1893 Wustrow, brig, lost off Oak Island
- August 29, 1911 Charles H. Valentine, schooner, lost off Cape Fear
- August 30, 1893 Kate E. Gifford, schooner, lost off Oak Island
- August 31, 1893 Enchantress, schooner, lost off Oak Island
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