List of shipwrecks in the 1700s
The list of shipwrecks in the 1700s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost from 1700 to 1709.
1700
September
19 September
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Carlisle | ![]() | The 48-gun fourth rate exploded and sank in The Downs with the loss of 124 of the 128 crew on board.[1] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Thornton | ![]() | The East Indiaman was wrecked at Port Quin, Cornwall.[2] |
Henrietta Marie | ![]() | African slave trade: The ship was wrecked on the New Ground Reef, off the Marquesas Keys, Spanish Florida, with the loss of all hands. |
1701
February
25 February
Ship | State | Description |
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Padang | ![]() | The frigate was reported lost while on a voyage from Batavia to Amboina.[3] |
December
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Amity | ![]() | African slave trade: The slave ship was wrecked on a reef in Dunworley Bay, Ireland, with the loss of all but one of those on board.[4] |
1702
February
21 February
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Roebuck | ![]() | The fifth rate sprang a leak and sank in Clarence Bay, Ascension Island. Her crew survived. They were rescued on 8 April by Hastings (![]() |
April
3 April
Ship | State | Description |
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Merestein | ![]() | The East Indiaman struck rocks and sank in Saldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa, with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.[5] |
September
30 September
Ship | State | Description |
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Glocester Frigot | ![]() | The ship departed from Plymouth, Devon for Bencoolen, India. No further trace.[6] |
October
23 October
Ship | State | Description |
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Dauphin | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 46-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
Espérance | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
Fort | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 76-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
Oriflamme | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 64-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
Prudent | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 60-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The ship was sunk during the battle.[7] |
Sirène | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 60-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
Solide | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 56-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
Superbe | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
Voluntaire | ![]() | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 46-gun ship was run ashore in Vigo Bay. |
November
22 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Amsterdam | ![]() | The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) type pinnace foundered en route to Basra from Bombay during a storm. All hands were lost.[8] |
1703
January
7 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Speaker | ![]() | The ship foundered off the east coast of Mauritius. Her 170 crew survived. The Dutch East India Company sold Bowen a sloop, the Vliegendehart, which they enlarged and sailed away in.[9] |
November
25 November
Ship | State | Description |
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Unnamed ship | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England with the loss of all hands.[1] |
27 November
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Canterbury | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The storeship foundered off Bristol with the loss of 26 of her crew.[1] Later salvaged and sold.[10] |
HMS Eagle | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The advice boat sank at Selsey, Sussex. Her crew were rescued.[1] |
HMS Mary | ![]() | |
HMS Mortar | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel was wrecked on the Dutch coasts.[1] |
HMS Newcastle | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The fourth rate frigate was wrecked at Spithead, Hampshire, with the loss of 229 of her crew. |
HMS Northumberland | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all 253 of her crew. |
HMS Portsmouth | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel foundered at the Nore with the loss of 44 of her crew.[1] |
HMS Reserve | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The fourth rate frigate foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, with the loss of all but one of her 270 crew. |
HMS Resolution | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The third rate ship of the line was abandoned off Pevensey, Sussex. Her crew survived. |
HMS Restoration | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all 387 of her crew. |
HMS Stirling Castle | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all but 70 of her 349 crew. |
HMS Vanguard | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The second rate ship of the line sank at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. She was refloated in 1704, rebuilt and relaunched in 1710. |
HMS Vigo | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The fourth rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Dutch coast. |
HMS York | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The Speaker-class frigate sank at Harwich, Essex, with the loss of four of her crew. |
Two merchant ships | Flag unknown | Great Storm of 1703: a ship was driven into a pink in The Downs, both vessels foundered.[1] |
December
2 December
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Mortar | ![]() | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel ran ashore on the Dutch coast.[11] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Bandera | ![]() | The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon, Gloucestershire, England with the loss of all hands. |
Richard & John | ![]() | The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon with the loss of all hands.[12] |
1704
August
Ship | State | Description |
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John and Ann | ![]() | The ship was wrecked near Cardigan.[13] |
January
31 January
Ship | State | Description |
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Albemarle | ![]() | The ship departed on this date. She was subsequently lost at "Balparro".[6] |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Castle Del Ray | unknown | The ship was driven ashore and sank at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, English America.[14] |
Cinque Ports | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Malpelo Island, Viceroyalty of Peru. Her crew survived. |
1705
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apostol | ![]() | The ship sank in Pensacola Bay, Spanish Florida.[15] |
Swan | Unknown | The brigantine was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet.[16] |
1706
October
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Major | ![]() | The pink was wrecked near Cardigan.[13] |
November
19 November
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Hazardous | ![]() | The fourth rate ran aground and sank at Bracklesham Bay, Sussex.[17] |
1707
October
22 October
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Association | ![]() | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The second rate ship of the line struck the Outer Gilstone Rock, off the Isles of Scilly and sank with the loss of all hands, approximately 800 men. |
HMS Eagle | ![]() | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The third rate ship of the line was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of all hands. |
HMS Firebrand | ![]() | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The fireship struck the Outer Gilstone Rock and consequently foundered in Smith Soud, off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of 28 of her 40 crew. |
HMS Romney | ![]() | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The fourth rate ship of the line struck the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, and foundered with the loss of all but one of her crew. |
HMS St George | ![]() | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The first rate ship of the line struck rocks off the Isles of Scilly. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service. |
December
31 December
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Norske Løve | ![]() | The East Indiaman sank in Lambavík, Faroe Islands. About 100 crew survived. |
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
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Unnamed ship | ![]() | The privateer was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain, with the loss of all 60 crew.[1] |
1708
January
Unknown date
Ship | State | Description |
---|---|---|
Samuel | ![]() | The ship was wrecked near Cardigan.[13] |
June
8 June
Ship | State | Description |
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Concepción | ![]() | War of the Spanish succession, Wager's Action): The ship ran aground on the Isla de Baru. She was set afire and destroyed to prevent her capture by the British. |
San José | ![]() | War of the Spanish succession, Wager's Action): The galleon exploded and sank off the Isla de Baru during battle with HMS Expedition (![]() |
1709
Notes
- ^ Until 1752, the year began on Lady Day (25 March) Thus 24 March 1700 was followed by 25 March 1701. 31 December 1701 was followed by 1 January 1701.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret: David & Charles. pp. 47–59, 165–72. ISBN 0-7153-7202-5.
- ^ Lettens, Jan. "Thornton (+1700)". wrecksite. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ Lettens, Jan. "Padang (+1700)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Paddy (19 November 2009). "Amity (1701) The Dunworley Slave Ship". Irish Maritime History Society. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ "Merestein, sunk in 1702 off South Africa". Sedwick. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ a b Throckmorton, Peter. "The Great Basses Wreck" (PDF). Expedition. No. Spring 1964. pp. 21–31.
- ^ "Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje (+1704)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ Lettens, Jan. "Amsterdam (+1702)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ Lizé, Patrick (1984). "The wreck of the pirate ship Speaker on Mauritius in 1702". The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration. 13 (2). The Nautical Archaeology Trust Ltd: 121–32. doi:10.1111/j.1095-9270.1984.tb01182.x.
- ^ "British Other Vessels storeship 'Canterbury' (1692)". Threedecks. Retrieved 14 May 2017.}
- ^ Lettens, Jan. "HMS Mortar (+1703)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
- ^ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF). Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ a b c "Cardigan & District Shipwrecks and Lifeboat Service". Glen Johnson. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ "The Castle Del Ray Shipwreck". Aquaexplorers. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ^ "Pensacola's Historical and Archaeological Timeline". University of West Florida. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- ^ njscuba.net "Lavallette Wreck"
- ^ "Isle of Wight Shipwrecks: Treasure, and 'Hazardous'". BBC. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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