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

1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1832
Ship State Description
Catherina and Carmelita Kingdom of Sardinia The ship was destroyed by fire at Havana, Cuba.[1]

2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1832
Ship State Description
Amy  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby, Yorkshire. She was later refloated.[2]
Antelope  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]
Atlas  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]
Bell  United Kingdom The ship struck a sunken rock off the Isle of Glass Lighthouse and was wrecked.[3]
Blossom  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]
General Murray  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]
Thomas Ferguson  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]
Wansbeck  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Whitby. She was later refloated.[2]

3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1832
Ship State Description
Ellen  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore near Ravenglass, Cumberland. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Dublin. Ellen was refloated on 17 March and taken in to Ravenglass.[4]
Hoop  Netherlands The ship departed from Emden, Kingdom of Hanover for Schiedam, South Holland. No further trace, presumed foundered in the North Sea with the loss of all hands.[5]
Prince of Wales  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Trinity Sand, in the North Sea off the mouth of the Humber with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from London to Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.[4]

4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1832
Ship State Description
Cambray  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on Colonsay, Inner Hebrides. She was on a voyage from Letterkenny, County Donegal to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[6]
Lady Warde  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Oistin's Point, Barbados. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Berbice to Barbados.[5]
Thistle  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Westport, County Mayo.[7]

5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1832
Ship State Description
Belinda  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked in the Bass Strait. She was on a voyage from Launceston to Hobart, Van Diemen's Land.[8]
Britannia  United Kingdom The ship departed from Wigton, Cumberland for Liverpool, Lancashire. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Irish Sea with the loss of all hands.[9]
Dolphin  United Kingdom The sloop foundered in the North Sea off Bervie, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the smack Mansfield ( United Kingdom). Dolphin was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.[10]
Success  United Kingdom The ship foundered off the Dudgeon Sandbank, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[11]
Westmoreland  United Kingdom The sloop was wrecked near Dundrum, County Down with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Portrush, County Antrim to Liverpool.[12][13]

6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1832
Ship State Description
Ann  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Montrose, Forfarshire. Her crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat. She was in a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Arbroath, Forfarshire.[7]
Annie  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Montrose. Her crew were rescued by the Montrose Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Arbroath.[7]
Atalanta  United Kingdom The sloop struck the Beacon Rock, off Leith, Lothian and was severely damaged.[14]
Commerce  United Kingdom The ship ran aground on the Kentish Knock, in the North Sea off the coast of Kent and foundered. She was on a voyage from Harwich, Essex to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[3]
Cookson  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Ballycarry Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Belfast, County Antrim to Maryport, Cumberland.[15]
Dolphin  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and capsized in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Sunderland, County Durham.[16]
Île de Graix  France The ship was wrecked on Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime to Hamburg.[17]
Lady Forbes  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Aberdeen. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire to Leith, Lothian.[18]
Leonidas  France The ship was wrecked on the Îlots des Moines, Corsica. She was on a voyage from Constantinople, Ottoman Empire to Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.[19]
Mantua  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on the Spanish Battery Rocks, off South Shields, County Durham. Her crew were rescued.[20]
Richard  United Kingdom The sailing barge capsized off Lowestoft, Suffolk.[7]
Robert and Sarah  United Kingdom The ship struck the Dudgeon Sandbank, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk and sank. Her crew were rescued.[16]
Sophia  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Montrose. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aberdeen to Hull, Yorkshire.[14]
Sussex Oak  United Kingdom The brig was wrecked on the Cross Sand, in the North Sea off Lowestoft. Her crew were rescued by the brig John Stafford ( United Kingdom). Sussex Oak was on a voyage from Littlehampton, Sussex to Sunderland.[18]
Swallow  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Bridport, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Bridport.[21] Swallow was refloated on 9 March and taken in to Bridport.[22]
Willing Trader  United Kingdom The ship struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent and was beached. She was on a voyage from Littlehampton to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[23]

7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1832
Ship State Description
Emstroome  Portugal The ship was driven ashore at Belém. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Figueira da Foz. She was refloated on 17 March.[24]

8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1832
Ship State Description
Richard  United Kingdom The ship capsized off Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to London.[11]

9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1832
Ship State Description
Enterprize  United States The ship was wrecked on Watling Island, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Savannah, Georgia to Jamaica.[25]
Sybil  United States The ship was wrecked on the "coast of St Michael", 8 leagues (24 nautical miles (44 km) west of the Île de Batz, Finistère with the loss thirteen of her seventeen crew. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Charleston, South Carolina.[26][27]

10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1832
Ship State Description
Minerva  France The ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay off Île d'Yeu, Vendée with the loss of all but four of her crew. She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands.[9]

12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1832
Ship State Description
Brenda United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The brig was driven ashore and wrecked on Swan Island, Van Diemen's Land.[28]
Wemyss  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dunure, Ayrshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[29]

13 March

List of shipwrecks: 13 March 1832
Ship State Description
Dart United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The cutter was wrecked at Port Macquarie. Her crew were rescued.[30][31]
Eolus  Spain The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Finisterre. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from St. Ubes to a Baltic port.[32]

14 March

List of shipwrecks: 14 March 1832
Ship State Description
Hope  United Kingdom The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the North Sea off Robin Hoods Bay, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Margate, Kent.[33]

15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1832
Ship State Description
John and Isaac  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Dublin. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newry, County Antrim to Dublin.[33]

17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1832
Ship State Description
Mary  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore on "Bornahard Point". She was on a voyage from Limerick to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[4]
Mentor Hamburg The ship ran aground off Amrum, Denmark and was abandoned by her crew. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France to Hamburg. Mentor was refloated on 28 March and taken in to Hamburg.[24]

19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1832
Ship State Description
Belem Castle  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Hoylake, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Lisbon, Portugal to Liverpool, Lancashire.[34]
Eliza  United Kingdom The schooner ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the North Sea off North Shields, County Durham. Her crew were rescued by the South Shields Lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen.[4]
Wemyss  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Ayr. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Glasgow, Renfrewshire.[35]

20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1832
Ship State Description
Penelope  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Hoylake. Her crew were rescued by the Hoylake Lifeboat and placed under quarantine. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Liverpool, Lancashire.[34]

21 March

List of shipwrecks: 21 March 1832
Ship State Description
Strever  Netherlands The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Surinam to Amsterdam, North Holland.[27]

22 March

List of shipwrecks: 22 March 1832
Ship State Description
Harriet  United Kingdom The ship struck a rock off St David's Head, Pembrokeshire and consequently foundered with the loss of one life. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Barbados and Trinidad.[36]
Meridian  United States The ship was wrecked on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was on a voyage from Charleston, South Carolina to Trieste.[37]

24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1832
Ship State Description
Abraham and Moses  United Kingdom The ship foundered in the North Sea off Aldeburgh, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.[38]

26 March

List of shipwrecks: 26 March 1832
Ship State Description
Alert  United Kingdom The ship struck the West Mouse Rock, in the Irish Sea off the coast of Anglesey and consequently foundered with the loss of 134 of the 160 people on board. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Liverpool, Lancashire.[36][39]

27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1832
Ship State Description
Coletta  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked at Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, Belgium.. She was on a voyage from London to Nieuwpoort.[40]

30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1832
Ship State Description
Ranger  United Kingdom The ship collided with Romulus ( United Kingdom) at Hellevoetsluis, South Holland, Netherlands. Both vessels sank.[24]

31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1832
Ship State Description
De Rahm  France The ship was wrecked on Long Island, New York, United States.[41]
Defence  United Kingdom The ship was sailing from Alloa to Quebec when she was wrecked near the entrance of Long Hope. Her crew was saved.[42]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1832
Ship State Description
Darling United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland New South Wales The schooner was wrecked in the Bay of Islands. Her crew were rescued.[43]
Experiment  United Kingdom The ship was driven ashore at Campvere, Zeeland, Netherlands before 24 March. She was on a voyage from London to Ghent, Belgium.[44]
Faithful  United Kingdom The ship was lost on the Cork Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex with the loss of at least three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to London. Five survivors were rescued by Spy ( United Kingdom)[11][45]
Lavinia  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked on "the island of Java". She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Bremen.[46]

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