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

1 February

List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1832
Ship State Description
Altgiras  Spain The schooner was captured off Matanzas, Cuba by a Colombian Navy cruiser. She was set afire and destroyed.[1]
Ceres  France The ship was wrecked at Stavanger, Norway. She was on a voyage from Stavanger to Sète, Hérault.[2]
Felicity  United Kingdom The ship struck the Clipera Rock, in the Irish Sea and foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Flint to Holyhead, Anglesey.[3]
Sally  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean between the Longships Lighthouse and the Runnel Stone. Her crew were rescued by Good Intent ( United Kingdom). Sally was on a voyage from London to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[3]

2 February

List of shipwrecks: 2 February 1832
Ship State Description
Cleopatra  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in Loch Indaal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sligo to London.[4]
Portland  United Kingdom The sloop foundered off the coast of Jamaica. Her crew were rescued.[1]

3 February

List of shipwrecks: 3 February 1832
Ship State Description
Brothers  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Dublin. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Whitehaven, Cumberland.[5]
Hibernia  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the "East Breaker". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Mobile, Alabama, United States.[6][7]
Shark  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Dublin. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Wexford.[5]

4 February

List of shipwrecks: 4 February 1832
Ship State Description
Albion  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of County Donegal. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Sligo.[8]
Huntley  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Atlantic Ocean (49°50′N 21°00′W / 49.833°N 21.000°W / 49.833; -21.000). She was abandoned on 7 February with the ultimate loss of three of her seventeen crew.[9]
Sovereign  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with a collier and sank in the River Thames at Greenhithe, Kent. She was later refloated and beached at Grays Thurrock, Essex.[10][11]
Zetes  United Kingdom The barque sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, United States. Her crew survived.[12]

5 February

List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1832
Ship State Description
Ann and Catherine  United Kingdom The sloop foundered in the North Sea off Eastbarns, Lothian. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to Dundee, Forfarshire.[5][13]
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and sank at Cayenne, French Guiana. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Cayenne.[14]
Crown  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Eastore Point, County Wexford with the loss of ten of her nineteen crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Charleston, South Carolina, United States.[15][5][16]
Dolphin  United Kingdom The ship was destroyed by fire at Tralee, County Cork.[17]
Elizabeth  United Kingdom The ship was lost on the Caucassus Reef. She was on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America to Jamaica.[18]
Herald  United States The ship was wrecked at "Ivica". Her crew were rescued.[19]
St. Thomas  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.[20]

6 February

List of shipwrecks: 6 February 1832
Ship State Description
Pirate  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Aberdeen. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Banff, Aberdeenshire.[13]

7 February

List of shipwrecks: 7 February 1832
Ship State Description
Endraght  Netherlands The ship was lost in the Abaco Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland to Havana, Cuba.[21]
Samuel  United Kingdom The ship was run down and sunk off Bridport, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Falmouth, Cornwall to London.[9]

8 February

List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1832
Ship State Description
Eliza  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Horse Shoe Reef, off the coast of Antigua. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.[1]

9 February

List of shipwrecks: 9 February 1832
Ship State Description
Friendsbury  United Kingdom The whaler was wrecked on a coral reef in the Pacific Ocean (5°01′S 159°19′E / 5.017°S 159.317°E / -5.017; 159.317) with the loss of 24 of her 35 crew.[22]

10 February

List of shipwrecks: 10 February 1832
Ship State Description
Sophia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Antigua The schooner was wrecked on Anegada. She was on a voyage from Curaçao to Antigua.[1]

12 February

List of shipwrecks: 12 February 1832
Ship State Description
Adventure  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and sank. Her crew were rescued by Princess Royal ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Goole, Yorkshire to London.[23][24]
Orb  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Whiting Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[25]

14 February

List of shipwrecks: 14 February 1832
Ship State Description
Apparance Russian Empire Grand Duchy of Finland The ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom and was consequently beached at Winterton-on-Sea. She was on a voyage from Jakobstadt to London, United Kingdom.[26]

16 February

List of shipwrecks: 16 February 1832
Ship State Description
Lavinia  United States The ship was wrecked on the Colorado Reef. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Vera Cruz, Mexico to New York.[14]

18 February

List of shipwrecks: 18 February 1832
Ship State Description
Editha  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Terceira, Azores, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America to Liverpool, Lancashire.[27]
Naren  Portugal The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked on Terceira.[27]
Prudencia  Portugal The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Terceira.[27]
Souvenir  United States The schooner was driven ashore on Terceira.[27]

19 February

List of shipwrecks: 19 February 1832
Ship State Description
Betsey  United Kingdom The ship was in collision with a smack off Padstow, Cornwall and foundered. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[28]
Union  United Kingdom The sloop sprang a leak and was beached near Mundesley, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by the Mundesley Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[29][30]
Venus  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at "Uaber". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn, Sweden to a British port.[31]

20 February

List of shipwrecks: 20 February 1832
Ship State Description
Batavier  Netherlands The steamship was driven ashore at Reculver, Kent, United Kingdom. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland to London, United Kingdom.[32]

21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1832
Ship State Description
Agnes  United Kingdom The ship was lost off Itamaracá, Brazil. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Pernambuco, Brazil.[14]

22 February

List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1832
Ship State Description
Morning Star  United Kingdom The ship was driven out to sea from Madeira, Portugal. she did not return.[33]
Sabeto  Ottoman Empire The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Beirut.[34]
Vigilancia  Brazil The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Madeira.[33]

24 February

List of shipwrecks: 24 February 1832
Ship State Description
Eliza  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean whilst bound for Havana, Cuba. Three of her crew were subsequently rescued by Treaty ( United States).[35]

25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1832
Ship State Description
Venus  Sweden The ship was wrecked at Xàbia, Spain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Söderhamn to Alicante, Spain.[36]

26 February

List of shipwrecks: 26 February 1832
Ship State Description
Mercure  France The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Bayonne, Gironde.[36]

29 February

List of shipwrecks: 29 February 1832
Ship State Description
Caledonia The ship was scuttled at Davi, near Tofua, Tonga. She had been taken over by seven convicts whilst at anchor at Moreton Bay, Queensland in December 1831.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1832
Ship State Description
Auguste  France The ship was wrecked near Tunis before 22 February. She was on a voyage from Algiers, Algeria to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.[36]
General Putnam  United States The ship was driven ashore at Barnegat, New Jersey and broke in two. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to New York.[37]
Madeira Paket United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The ship was wrecked on the Brampton Shoal. At least thirteen of her crew survived.[38]
Phœnix  United Kingdom The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Kalmar, Sweden to Sète, Hérault, France.[32]
San Christ del Grao  Spain The ship was driven ashore at "Nouvelle", France. She was on a voyage from Valencia to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.[39]
Sarah and Sophia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British North America The drogher was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia.[27]
William Little  United Kingdom The crew mutinied and murdered her captain. The ship was cubseqently scuttled off Fanning Island.[40]

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