# List of shipwrecks in March 1834

The list of shipwrecks in March 1834 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded or otherwise lost during March 1834.

## 1 March

List of shipwrecks: 1 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Isabella | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Kirk Santon Head, Isle of Man with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Glasgow, Renfrewshire. |
| Matthews | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in Calf Sound, Isle of Man. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to an Irish port. |
| Robert Russell | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Grand Bahama, Bahamas. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool. |
| Water Witch | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Carnarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Glandore, County Cork to Liverpool. |

## 2 March

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| George | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Wick, Caithness. She was on a voyage from London to Wick. |

## 3 March

List of shipwrecks: 3 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brothers | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the English Channel 3 leagues (9 nautical miles (17 km)) off The Needles, Isle of Wight. |

## 4 March

List of shipwrecks: 4 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Little Liz | United Kingdom | The ship ran agrounded on the Brazil Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued by Magazine ( United Kingdom). She was on a voyage from Sierra Leone to Liverpool, Lancashire. Little Liz was refloated on 9 March and taken in to Liverpool. |
| Minerva | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Littlehampton, Sussex. |
| William Penn | United States | The steamboat caught fire and was beached at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the loss of five lives. She was carrying 120 passengers. William Penn was on a voyage from New Castle, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. |

## 5 March

List of shipwrecks: 5 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Confiance | France | The whaler was wrecked on the Costa Imperial, Chile. Her crew were rescued. |
| Shannon | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Greystones, County Wicklow. She was on a voyage from Whitehaven, Cumberland to Dublin. |
| Star | United Kingdom | The schooner foundered in Hoy Sound with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Wick, Caithness to Bristol, Gloucestershire. |

## 6 March

List of shipwrecks: 6 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Charlotte Kerr | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on South Uist, Outer Hebrides. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Grenada. |
| Eagle | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in St Brides Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Galway. |

## 7 March

List of shipwrecks: 7 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Confidence | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Tiree, Inner Hebrides, She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Haiti. |
| Louisa | Lübeck | The ship was driven ashore on "Mangen". She was on a voyage from Reval, Russia to Lübeck. |
| Mally | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in Loch Alsh near Point Knock. She was on a voyage from Runcorn, Cheshire to Balisadare, County Sligo |
| Mary Ann | New South Wales | The cutter was driven ashore and wrecked at Newcastle. Her crew were rescued. |
| Sea Nymph | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at "Lobbe". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to a North Sea port in the United Kingdom. |

## 8 March

List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Colchester | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off "Froomby", British North America. |

## 9 March

List of shipwrecks: 9 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Belford | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea off North Shields, County Durham. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Dundee, Forfarshire. |
| Othmarschen | flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore near "Robsnout", Jutland. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to a Baltic port. |
| Scotia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Uist, Outer Hebrides. She was on a voyage from the Clyde to Westport, County Mayo. |

## 10 March

List of shipwrecks: 10 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brothers | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Jutland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Stettin, Prussia. |
| Charles | Denmark | The ship was wrecked at "Wideroe", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Messina, Sicily to Copenhagen. |
| Onkel | Danzig | The ship was wrecked on Skagen, Denmark with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Danzig. |

## 11 March

List of shipwrecks: 11 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Barbuda. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands. |
| Manone | Hamburg | The ship was wrecked near "Neuvitas". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Havana, Cuba. |

## 12 March

List of shipwrecks: 12 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| King George | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Faial, Azores, Portugal. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Africa to the United Kingdom. |
| Triton | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked near Clare, Ireland. She was on a voyage from "Cleri" to Liverpool, Lancashire. |

## 15 March

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nancy | United Kingdom | The sloop foundered in the North Sea off Montrose, Forfarshire. |
| Seaforth | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Jamaica. She was on a voyage from Morant Bay to Port Maria, Jamaica. |

## 16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Danzig, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London. |
| Ridley | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore near Danzig. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Hull, Yorkshire. |

## 17 March

List of shipwrecks: 17 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fortuna | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the east coast of Jutland, Denmark. |
| Haabet | Denmark | The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Swinemünde, Prussia. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to Swinemünde. |

## 18 March

List of shipwrecks: 18 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nautilus | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Skegness, Lincolnshire. |
| Romney | United Kingdom | The brig foundered off Urbana. She was on a voyage from Fredriksberg, Sweden to Miramichi, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 19 March

List of shipwrecks: 19 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fama | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Thisted, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dundee, Forfarshire to a Baltic port. |

## 20 March

List of shipwrecks: 20 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Brunette | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on Texel, North Holland, Netherlands. |
| Henrietta | Netherlands | The ship was driven ashore or Texel. |
| Virginia | Kingdom of Sardinia | The ship was wrecked near "Catali". She was on a voyage from Genoa to Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. |

## 23 March

List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Adventure | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea off the mouth of the Humber. |
| Eliza | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on the West Hoyke Bank, in Liverpool Bay, with the loss of five of her seven passengers. She was on a voyage from the Isle of Man to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Gem | United States | The ship was driven ashore at Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 24 March

List of shipwrecks: 24 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Glasgow Merchant | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. |

## 25 March

List of shipwrecks: 25 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hector | France | The ship sprang a leak and foundered. She was on a voyage from Granville, Manche to Saint Pierre. |

## 27 March

List of shipwrecks: 27 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Louisa Augusta | Denmark | The ship was wrecked on the Long Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex, United Kingdom. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to the Isle of Man. |

## 28 March

List of shipwrecks: 28 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Actif | France | The steamship was wrecked near Audresselles, Pas-de-Calais. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. |
| Helen | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Sheephaven Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Greenock, Renfrewshire to Demerara. |
| Lady D'Urban | Antigua | The schooner was wrecked at Saint Lucia. |
| Royal Sovereign | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore in Caernarvon Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Arklow, County Wicklow to Liverpool, Lancashire. |

## 29 March

List of shipwrecks: 29 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Æolus | Wismar | The ship foundered in the Kattegat off "Grimstadt", Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Wismar to Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
| Billow | British North America | The schooner was sunk by ice. Her crew were rescued. |
| Eendraght | Netherlands | The smack was lost off "Oddoe", Norway. |
| Sylvan (Syloan) | United Kingdom | The brig was wrecked in the Kattegat. Her crew were rescued, She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Wismar. |

## 30 March

List of shipwrecks: 30 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Julia | British North America | The schooner was sunk by ice off Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Her crew were rescued. |

## 31 March

List of shipwrecks: 31 March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Chatham | United Kingdom | The Thames barge capsized and sank in the North Sea 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) east of Whitstable, Kent. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rye, Sussex to London. |
| Mexico | Spain | The ship was wrecked at Galwa Point. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cádiz ro Cartagena. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in March 1834 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ann | New South Wales | The schooner was wrecked north of "Nobby's Island". |
| Elizabeth | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore on the Swedish coast before 14 March. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to London. |
| Ellen | United States | The ship departed from Charleston, South Carolina for Kronstadt, Russia. No further trace, presumed lost with all hands. |
| Eugine | France | The ship was wrecked in Catalan Bay. |
| Gustave | France | The ship was wrecked in the "Almandes". She was on a voyage from Bordeaux, Gironde to Goree Island, South Holland, Netherlands. |
| Holland | Jamaica | The sloop was wrecked on the coast of Jamaica. |
| Neptune | Netherlands | The ship foundered off the coast of Finistère, France on or before 8 March. |
| New Jersey | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked whilst on a voyage from Gibraltar to China. |
| Reliance | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked on a shoal off Singapore in mid-March. |
| Stonehouse | United Kingdom | The ship was sunk on the North Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth, Devon to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Two Brothers | United Kingdom | The ship struck the Wild-fire Rocks, in the North Sea off Scoughall, Lothian and was consequently beached. She was on a voyage from King's Lynn to Leith, Lothian. |
| Virginia | flag unknown | The ship was driven ashore on Fanø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia and Messina, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Hamburg. |
| Zephyr | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground and was wrecked off Cardiff, Glamorgan. She was on a voyage from Cardiff to Liverpool. |