List of shipwrecks in March 1837

The list of shipwrecks in March 1837 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1837.

2 March

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|ship=Gladiator

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Deal, Kent. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to London. Gladiator was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=11 March 1837 |issue=18238 }}

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|ship=Preciosa

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Haisborough Sands, in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Algiers, Algeria. Preciosa was refloated and taken in to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 March 1837 |page=7 |issue=16355 |column=E }}

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3 March

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|ship=Canton

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the Dardanelles.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=7 April 1837 |page=6 |issue=16384 |column=F }} She was refloated on 18 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16397 |column=D }}

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4 March

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|ship=Devonport

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Cape Henelopen, Delaware, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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|ship=Lord Strangford

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=10 March 1837 |page=7 |issue=16360 |column=D }}

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|ship=Maria

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Algoa Bay.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=31 May 1837 |page=6 |issue=16430 |column=E }}

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|ship=Maria

|flag=22px Kingdom of Sardinia

|desc=The polacca capsized in a squall at Havana, Cuba. She was later righted.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=15 June 1837 |issue=21090 }}

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5 March

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|ship=Martha

|flag={{flag|United States|1836}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom to Charleston, South Carolina.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=17 April 1837 |issue=21039 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=20 April 1837 |issue=18255 }}

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|ship=Walsingham

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on an island. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bermuda to the Turks Islands.

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6 March

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|ship=Graff Herman Wedel Jarlsberg

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Landfoort". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dram to Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 March 1837 |page=7 |issue=16361 |column=E }}

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|ship=Kensington or Kingston

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|28|30|N|59|30|W}}) with the loss of her captain. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to Cork. Survivors were rescued by Orion ({{flag|United States|1836}}).{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc. |location=Liverpool |date=21 April 1837 |issue=1355 }}

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8 March

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|ship=Petite Louise

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on a reef off Cancún, Mexico. All on board were rescued.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=16 June 1837 |page=7 |issue=16444 |column=F }}

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|ship=Portia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque ran aground and was wrecked at Capo d'Otranto, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Ancona, Papal States to Malta{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=11 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16387 |column=C }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16390 |column=B }}

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9 March

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|ship=Davenport

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Hazard's Land, Pennsylvania, United States. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=17 April 1837 |page=5 |issue=16392 |column=D }}

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|ship=Express

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in the Bay of Tangier.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 March 1837 |issue=3086 }}

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|ship=Georgiana

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Texel, Netherlands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Aux Cayes, Haiti to Hamburg.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 March 1837 |issue=3075 }}

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|ship=Sophia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The brig was wrecked on the Brazil Bank, in Liverpool Bay. Her crew were rescued by lifeboat. She was on a voyage from Valparaíso, Chile to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=(untitled) |date=11 March 1837 |page=6 |issue=16361 |column=D }}{{Cite news |title=A Chronological and Statistical Table for the year 1837 |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=30 December 1837 |issue=4222 }}

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10 March

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|ship=Arcade

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Bornholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Memel, Prussia.

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|ship=Maria

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked in Algoa Bay.

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|ship=Jane

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 April 1837 |issue=4002 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=29 April 1837 |issue=18259 }}

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11 March

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|ship=Penrhos

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque foundered in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|36|50|N|9|55|W}}). Her crew were rescued by the galiot Nieuwe Ondernehming ({{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of the Netherlands}}). Penrhos was on a voyage from Swansea, Glamorgan to Syra, Greece.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=24 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16398 |column=B }}{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=25 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16399 |column=B }}

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|ship=Solace

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship struck a sunken wreck and sank in the North Sea off Thorpeness, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=14 March 1837 |issue=3072 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=18 March 1837 |issue=18241 }}

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|ship=St. John

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground off Dublin. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain to Dublin.

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12 March

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|ship=Hamilton

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship sank at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Waterford to Dublin.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=20 March 1837 |issue=18242 }}

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|ship=Integrity

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered off Bandon, County Cork. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Troon, Ayrshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=22 March 1837 |page=7 |issue=16370 |column=F }}

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|ship=Jameson

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Sunderland, County Durham. She was refloated the next day.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=15 March 1837 |issue=21012 }}

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|ship=Moro Castle

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship caught fire at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States and was scuttled. She was on a voyage from New Orleans to Havre de Grâce, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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13 March

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|ship=Arion

|flag={{flagicon|Russian Empire}} Grand Duchy of Finland

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Mallorca, Spain. She was on a voyage from Helsingfors to Cette, Hérault, France or Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburg |date=8 April 1837 |issue=18253 }}

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|ship=Integrity

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered off "Bruneton Head". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Tarbert, Argyllshire to the Clyde.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=21 March 1837 |issue=20679 }}

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|ship=Josephine

|flag={{flag|United States|1836}}

|desc=The ship foundered off Ocracoke, North Carolina. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=31 May 1837 |issue=20730 }}

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|ship=Mary Ann

|flag={{flag|United States|1836}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean ({{coord|23|00|N|82|30|W}}). Her crew were rescued by Judith and Esther ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). Mary Ann was on a voyage from "Mancinella de Cuba", Cuba to New York.

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|ship=Phœnix

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The brig was driven ashore at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, United States.

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|ship=Prince of Saxe Coburg

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Margate, Kent. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands to London.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=15 March 1837 |issue=3073 }}

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14 March

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|ship=Richard and Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The collier, a brig, ran aground on the Heaps Bank, in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Good Agreement ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}). She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to London. Richard and Ann later floated off and was taken into Burnham on Crouch, Essex.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=17 March 1837 |issue=20676 }}

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15 March

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|ship=America

|flag={{flag|United States|1836}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on the Riding Rocks, in the Bahamas. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Grand Bahama.

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|ship=Avon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The sloop departed from Waterford for Bristol, Gloucestershire. Presumed subsequently foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=17 April 1837 |issue=4001 }}

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|ship=Triton

|flag={{flag|Norway}}

|desc=The whaler was driven ashore at "Langel".{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=3 April 1837 |issue=20690 }}

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16 March

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|ship=Cortese

|flag=22px Kingdom of Sardinia

|desc=The polacca was wrecked at Madeira.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=19 April 1837 |issue=20704 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=22 April 1837 |issue=18256 }}

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|ship=Margaret

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Møn, Denmark, where she was wrecked on 19 March with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Lübeck.

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|ship=Ricargo

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked on Anegada, Virgin Islands. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Málaga to St. Thomas and Puerto Rico.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=22 April 1837 |issue=21044 }}

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|ship=Sovereign

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|government}}

|desc=The transport ship was driven ashore at Kileton, County Waterford. All on board were rescued. She was on a voyage from Woolwich, Kent to Waterford.

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17 March

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|ship=Marys

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Catania, Sicily.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=15 April 1837 |page=2 |issue=16391 |column=C }}

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18 March

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|ship=Limerick Lass

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground in the River Shannon. She was on a voyage from Limerick to Troon, Ayrshire.

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19 March

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|ship=Mary Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Læsø, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Hull, Yorkshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=10 April 1837 |page=2 |issue=16386 |column=F }}

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20 March

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|ship=Amphion

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at Thiessow, Prussia. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Thomas and Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was holed by her anchor and sank at Fosdyke Bridge, Lincolnshire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=31 March 1837 |page=6 |issue=16378 |column=B }}

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|ship=Three Johannas

|flag={{flag|Prussia|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at "Caisbourg".

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22 March

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|ship=Etolle

|flag=22px Grand Duchy of Tuscany

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Livorno. She was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt to Livorno.

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|ship=Westminster

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at New York, United States. She was on a voyage from London to New York. Westminster was refloated the next day and taken in to New York.

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23 March

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|ship=Commerce

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was severely damaged by fire at New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=24 April 1837 |issue=4007 }}

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|ship=Friend{{'}}s Desire

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship capsized off Salcombe, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Plymouth to Torquay.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=27 March 1837 |issue=20684 }}

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|ship=London

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ran sloop aground on the Brake Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex and sank. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Dartmouth, Devon to London.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=30 March 1837 |page=3 |issue=16377 |column=F }}{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper= The Morning Post|location=London |date=28 March 1837 |issue=20685 }}

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|ship=Maria

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship ran aground on the Herd Sand, in the North Sea. She was on a voyage from South Shields, County Durham to London. Maria was refloated and put back to South Shields, where she sank.

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|ship=Minerva

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Redcar, Yorkshire. She was on a voyage from Seaham, County Durham to King's Lynn, Norfolk. Minerva was later refloated and put in to Hartlepool, County Durham.

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|ship=Nicholas I

|flag=22px Danzig

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Danzig. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Danzig to Liverpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=6 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16388 |column=D }} Nicholas I was refloated on 18 April and taken into Danzig.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=1 May 1837 |issue=18260 }}

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|ship=Oato de Maio

|flag={{flag|Portugal|civil}}

|desc=The hiate was driven ashore and wrecked on Terceira Island, Azores.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=19 April 1837 |issue=21041 }}

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|ship=Watt

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore in the New Channel. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Africa.

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|ship=Will-o{{'}}-the-Wisp

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked at São Miguel Island, Azores. Her crew were rescued.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=18 April 1837 |issue=21040 }}

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24 March

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|ship=Braddyll

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The sloop was wrecked near Whitby, Yorkshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham Hartlepool, County Durham.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=28 March 1837 |issue=3084 }}{{Cite news |title=Marine Intelligence |newspaper=The Newcastle Courant etc. |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |date=31 March 1837 |issue=8472 }}

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|ship=Thomas and Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was holed by her anchor and sank at Fosdyke Bridge, Lincolnshire.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=31 March 1837 |issue=21025 }}

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25 March

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|ship=Caroline

|flag={{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore by ice and wrecked at Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, British North America. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Saint John's, Newfoundland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=25 April 1837 |issue=21046 }}

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|ship=Elizabeth

|flag={{flag|Spain|civil-1785}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore by ice and wrecked at Pouch Cove. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Cádiz to Saint John's.

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|ship=Fortuna

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The ship sank near Greifswald.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=3 April 1837 |page=7 |issue=16380 |column=D }}

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|ship=Hope

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship struck an iceberg and foundered. Her crew were rescued by Mary ({{flag|Hamburg|admiralty}}). She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Newfoundland, British North America.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=17 May 1837 |issue=21065 }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Liverpool Mercury etc |location=Liverpool |date=19 May 1837 |issue=1359 }}

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|ship=James

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was in collision with {{PS|Mercury|1835|2}} ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and sank off Pladda with the loss of two of her crew. Survivors were rescued by Mercury.{{Cite news |title=Ship News |newspaper=The Morning Post |location=London |date=1 April 1837 |issue=20689 }}

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|ship=Jonge Alberdina

|flag=22px Stralsund

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on Hiddensee, Prussia.

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|ship=Terrys

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The barque was driven ashore and wrecked on the east coast of Skagen, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Memel, Prussia.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=The Hull Packet |location=Hull |date=21 April 1837 |issue=2734 }}

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|ship=Waterloo

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Stettin with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from London to Memel, Prussia.

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26 March

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|ship=Bee

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Workington, Cumberland. She was refloated on 7 April and taken in to Workington.

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27 March

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|ship=Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was in collision with Mentor ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}) and foundered in the North Sea off Happisburgh, Norfolk. Her crew were rescued.

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29 March

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|ship=Nyverheid

|flag={{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of the Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire in the Indian Ocean. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies to Rotterdam, South Holland.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=23 November 1837 |issue=18348 }}

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|ship=Vigilance

|flag={{Flagcountry|United Kingdom of the Netherlands}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore at Scheveningen, South Holland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Rotterdam, South Holland.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=5 April 1837 |page=2 |issue=16372 |column=F }}

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30 March

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|ship=Felicity

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship struck rocks and sank off Tarifa, Spain with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Toulon, Var, France.

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31 March

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|ship=Candidus

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States to Liverpool, Lancashire.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=10 May 1837 |page=7 |issue=16412 |column=B }}

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|ship=Anna

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Cumberland. She was refloated on 7 March and taken in to Workington.

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|ship=Bellerophon

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship sank near Marstrand, Sweden. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands to Pillau, Prussia.

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|ship=Britannia

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Wilmington, Delaware, United States.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 June 1837 |page=3 |issue=16442 |column=E }}{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=17 June 1837 |issue=18280 }}

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|ship=Chantarella

|flag={{flag|France}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure before 9 March.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ship News |date=14 March 1837 |page=7 |issue=16363 |column=C }}

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|ship=Fortuna

|flag=22px Peru-Bolivian Confederation

|desc=War of the Confederation: The brig was wrecked on the coast of Islay. Of her 71 crew, fifteen were drowned, 52 were taken prisoner and four escaped.{{Cite news |title=Buenos Ayres |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=23 August 1837 |issue=21147 }}

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|ship=Franklin

|flag={{flag|United States|1836}}

|desc=The schooner was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 11 March with the loss of a crew member. Survivors were rescued by Nelson ({{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}).

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|ship=Eliza Ann

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was declared missing. She was on a voyage from London to Hamburg.

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|ship=Frederica Louisa

|flag={{flag|Denmark}}

|desc=The ship was driven ashore near Pillau, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen to Pillau. Frederica Louisa was refloated on 21 March and taken in to Pillau.

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|ship=Friends

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was run aground and sank off Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands. She was on a voyage from Harlingen, Friesland to London.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=6 March 1837 |issue=18236 }}

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|ship=Pandora

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 26 March.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=24 April 1837 |issue=18257 }}

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|ship={{HMS|Pembroke|1812|6}}

|flag={{navy|UK}}

|desc=The {{Sclass|Vengeur|ship of the line}} was driven ashore at Gibraltar. She was later refloated with assistance from the steamship Minos ({{flag|France}}).{{Cite news |title=London |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=30 March 1837 |issue=18246 }}{{Cite news |title=(untitled) |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=30 March 1837 |issue=21025 }}

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|ship=Richmond

|flag={{flagicon|UKGBI}} New South Wales

|desc=The schooner was wrecked in the Macleay River.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32155355 |title=Postscript - One o'clock |newspaper=The Sydney Monitor |location=Sydney |page=3 |date=27 March 1837 }}

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|ship=Rising Sun

|flag={{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}}

|desc=The ship was wrecked near South Shields, County Durham. Her crew were rescued.

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|ship=Santarella

|flag=Flag unknown

|desc=The ship was wrecked near Cherbourg, Seine-Inférieure, France.

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|ship=Véloce Messeneo

|flag=File:Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816).svg Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

|desc=The ship departed from Messina for Antwerp, Belgium in mid-March. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.{{Cite news |title=Shipping Intelligence |newspaper=Caledonian Mercury |location=Edinburgh |date=3 June 1837 |issue=18274 }}

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References

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