# List of shipwrecks in May 1831

The list of shipwrecks in May 1831 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1831.

## 4 May

List of shipwrecks: 4 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Archibald | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Sandhamn, Sweden. |

## 5 May

List of shipwrecks: 5 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Janet | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued by the Fraserburgh Lifeboat. |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The schooner was in collision with a brig and sank with the loss of three of her five crew. she was on a voyage from Portaferry, County Down to Campbeltown, Argyllshire. |

## 9 May

List of shipwrecks: 9 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hero | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on St. Paul's Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. |

## 10 May

List of shipwrecks: 10 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Sarah | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off Skagen, Denmark. |

## 11 May

List of shipwrecks: 11 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Jessie | New South Wales | The sloop was wrecked off Newcastle. Her crew were rescued. |
| John | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked in Jank's Sound, off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued. |
| Union | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on the East Barrow Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. All on board were rescued by the cutter Area ( United Kingdom). |

## 12 May

List of shipwrecks: 12 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Doris | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Lady Ridley ( United Kingdom) rescued the crew. |
| Duke of York | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Madeira, Portugal. |
| George | Cape Colony | The cutter was wrecked on Dyer Island. Her crew were rescued. |

## 13 May

List of shipwrecks: 13 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Mary Ann | United Kingdom | The brig capsized off Hiiumaa, Russia with some loss of life. |

## 14 May

List of shipwrecks: 14 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Fleece | United Kingdom | The schooner was wrecked on Scroby Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. Her crew were rescued by HMS Royal Charlotte ( Royal Navy). She was on a voyage from Boston, Lincolnshire to London. |
| Washington | United States | The 180-foot (55 m), 339-gross register ton sidewheel paddle steamer sank in 60 feet (18 m) of water in Long Island Sound off Stratford, Connecticut, within 15 minutes of colliding in darkness with the steamer Chancellor Livingston (flag unknown). Chancellor Livingston rescued all 52 of Washington′s passengers. |

## 15 May

List of shipwrecks: 15 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Rattler | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Arctic Sea. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Archangelsk, Russia. |

## 17 May

List of shipwrecks: 17 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Pero | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at North Somercotes, Lincolnshire. She was on a voyage from London to Hull, Yorkshire. |

## 19 May

List of shipwrecks: 19 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Coosa | United States | The steamboat collided with Huntress ( United States) and sank in the Mississippi River 90 miles (140 km) downstream of the mouth of the Ohio River with the loss of eight lives. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana to Louisville, Kentucky. |
| Henrick | Hamburg | The three-masted barque capsized in the River Thames at St. Katherine's Dock, London, United Kingdom. Her twenty crew survived. She was refloated later that day. |
| Thorne | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Robin Island, Cape Colony. She was on a voyage from the Cape Colony to London. |

## 20 May

List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Lively | United Kingdom | The ship capsized and sank off "Huen Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Pillau, Prussia to Ramsey, Isle of Man. |

## 22 May

List of shipwrecks: 22 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Prosperous | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked and sank on the north coast of Guernsey, Channel Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Weymouth, Dorset to Guernsey. |

## 23 May

List of shipwrecks: 23 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Ruby | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Poole, Dorset to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 24 May

List of shipwrecks: 24 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hercules | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on the Corton Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk. She was on a voyage from Dominica to London. |
| Lady Cathcart | United Kingdom | The ship was destroyed by fire at Kingston, Jamaica. |
| Windart | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on the Corton Sand. |

## 25 May

List of shipwrecks: 25 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Sarah | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Lossiemouth, Inverness-shire where she subsequently became a wreck. |

## 26 May

List of shipwrecks: 26 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cape Breton | Spain | The ship was destroyed by fire at Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom. |
| Mary Porter | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. |
| Sir Charles Ogle | British North America | The ship was lost west of Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Demerara to Halifax. |

## 27 May

List of shipwrecks: 27 May 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Governor Hodgson | United Kingdom | The ship was wreckled at County Harbour, Nova Scotia, British North America. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America. |
| Mary | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on Anholt, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to London. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1831 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Devenant | France | The ship was driven ashore in the Bay of Anthie in early May. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure to Hamburg. |
| Maria | United Kingdom | The ship was captured in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa by a 10-gun Spanish pirate brig. Most of her crew were murdered and the ship was scuttled. |
| Mina | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea approximately 20 nautical miles (37 km) north of Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ballachulish, Inverness-shire to Dundee, Forfarshire. |
| Mersey | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on "The Triangles" before 25 May. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, to Vera Cruz, Mexico. |
| HMS Monkey | Royal Navy | The schooner was wrecked at Tampico, Mexico. Her crew were rescued. |
| Providence | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from Liverpool to Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew were rescued. |