List of shipwrecks in the 1700s
The list of shipwrecks in the 1700s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the 1700s.
1700
1700 did not begin on 1 January![Note 1]
September
19 September
Ship | Country | 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] |
February
25 February
Ship | Country | Description |
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Padang | The frigate was reported lost while on a voyage from Batavia to Amboina.[2] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Thornton | The East Indiaman was wrecked at Port Quin, Cornwall.[3] | |
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
December
Unknown date
Ship | Country | 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] |
February
21 February
Ship | Country | 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 ( |
1702
April
3 April
Ship | Country | 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] |
October
Unknown date
Ship | Country | 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.[6] | |
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 | Country | 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.[7] |
January
7 January
Ship | Country | 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.[8] |
1703
November
25 November
Ship | Country | 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 | Country | 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.[9] | |
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 | Country | Description |
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HMS Mortar | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel ran ashore on the Dutch coast.[10] |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | 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.[11] |
1704
August
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Castle Del Ray | unknown | The ship was driven ashore and sank at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, English America.[13] |
Cinque Ports | The ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Malpelo Island, Viceroyalty of Peru. Her crew survived. |
1705
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apostol | The ship sank in Pensacola Bay, Spanish Florida.[14] | |
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.[15] |
1706
October
Unknown date
November
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Hazardous | The fourth rate ran aground and sank at Bracklesham Bay, Sussex.[16] |
1707
October
22 October
Ship | Country | 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 | Country | Description |
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Norske Løve | The East Indiaman sank in Lambavík, Faroe Islands. About 100 crew survived. |
Unknown date
Ship | Country | 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] |
January
1708
June
8 June
Ship | Country | 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
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- "Merestein, sunk in 1702 off South Africa". Sedwick. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
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- Lettens, Jan. "Amsterdam (+1702)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
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Ship events in 1700 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | 1699 | 1700 | 1701 | 1702 | 1703 | 1704 | 1705 |
Ship commissionings: | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | 1699 | 1700 | 1701 | 1702 | 1703 | 1704 | 1705 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | 1699 | 1700 | 1701 | 1702 | 1703 | 1704 | 1705 |
Shipwrecks: | 1695 | 1696 | 1697 | 1698 | 1699 | 1700 | 1701 | 1702 | 1703 | 1704 | 1705 |
Ship events in 1710 | |||||||||||
Ship launches: | 1705 | 1706 | 1707 | 1708 | 1709 | 1710 | 1711 | 1712 | 1713 | 1714 | 1715 |
Ship commissionings: | 1705 | 1706 | 1707 | 1708 | 1709 | 1710 | 1711 | 1712 | 1713 | 1714 | 1715 |
Ship decommissionings: | 1705 | 1706 | 1707 | 1708 | 1709 | 1710 | 1711 | 1712 | 1713 | 1714 | 1715 |
Shipwrecks: | 1705 | 1706 | 1707 | 1708 | 1709 | 1710 | 1711 | 1712 | 1713 | 1714 | 1715 |
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