The list of shipwrecks in August 1832 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1832.

2 August

List of shipwrecks: 2 August 1832
Ship State Description
Centinelle  Portugal The ship was driven ashore in a hurricane at Macao.[1]
Cornwallis  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore in a hurricane at Canton, China.[1]
Java  United States The ship foundered in a hurricane off "Capshing Moon", China with the loss of eleven of the 55 people om board. Survivors were rescued by Spartan ( United Kingdom). Java was on a voyage from "Capshing Moon" to Macao.[2]
Gabrielle  Mexico The brig was driven ashore in a hurricane at Canton.[1]
Liffey  United Kingdom The dispatch boat was lost in a hurricane at Lintin Island, China.[1]
Petrel  United Kingdom The dispatch boat was lost in a hurricane at Lintin Island.[1]

3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1832
Ship State Description
Yarmouth  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Grand Cayman. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to New York, United States.[3]

4 August

List of shipwrecks: 4 August 1832
Ship State Description
Delaford  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dundrum, Dublin. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[4]

8 August

List of shipwrecks: 8 August 1832
Ship State Description
Alcyope  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked off Dublin. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America.[4]

10 August

List of shipwrecks: 10 August 1832
Ship State Description
Peggy  United Kingdom The sloop foundered in the North Sea off Arbroath, Forfarshire. All on board were rescued.[5]
Saint Patrick  United Kingdom The smack capsized and sank off the Isle of Arran with the loss of all three crew. She was on a voyage from Ayr to Portrush, County Antrim.[6]

11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1832
Ship State Description
Leonidas  United Kingdom The transport ship was wrecked on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Quebec City, Lower Canada.[7]

12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1832
Ship State Description
Erato  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked north of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.[8]
George and Thomas  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on Langley Island, Massachusetts, United States. She was on a voyage from Barbados, to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America.[9]

13 August

List of shipwrecks: 13 August 1832
Ship State Description
Havanna United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British North America The brig was destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean (26°18′N 72°30′W / 26.300°N 72.500°W / 26.300; -72.500). Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Quebec City, Lower Canada.[10][11]

14 August

List of shipwrecks: 14 August 1832
Ship State Description
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with another vessel and foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Montreal, Lower Canada, British North America to Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America.[12]

15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1832
Ship State Description
Cygnet  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Whitehaven, Cumberland.[13]
Hopewell  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Hansley Rocks, on the coast of Northumberland.[14]

16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1832
Ship State Description
Agnes  United Kingdom The ship was lost in Cockburn Sound. Her crew were rescued.[15] She was on a voyage from London to the Swan River Colony.[16]

22 August

List of shipwrecks: 22 August 1832
Ship State Description
Flora  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on the south west coast of Anticosti Island, Lower Canada, British North America and wrecked. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Lower Canada to Padstow, Cornwall.[17]

27 August

List of shipwrecks: 27 August 1832
Ship State Description
Johanna Stettin The ship departed from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom for Stettin. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.[18]
Vane  United Kingdom The collier, a brig, was wrecked on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.[8][19]

28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1832
Ship State Description
Caledonia  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Bremen to Gaspé.[20][21]
Dispatch  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Newhaven, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Bridport, Dorset.[19][22]
Providence  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Platter Rocks, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Anglesey and sank. Her crew were rescued.[23]

29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1832
Ship State Description
Confidence  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near St. Ives, Cornwall with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Charlestown, Cornwall.[24]
Osiris  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the English Channel off Dover, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium to Liverpool, Lancashire.[22]
Ugie  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Ramsgate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Swansea, Glamorgan.[22]
Vane  United Kingdom The ship was driven on to the Cherton Sand, in the North Sea and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London.[22]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1832
Ship State Description
Little Primrose  United Kingdom The ship was abandoned off Hamburg. She was on a voyage from Stettin, Prussia to London.[25]
Susan United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British North America The ship was driven ashore on Wreck Reef, off the coast of Jamaica between 28 and 31 August during a hurricane.[26]

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