List of shipwrecks in the 1720s

The List of shipwrecks in the 1720s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1720s.

1720

In the British Empire, 1720 began on 25 March 25 rather than on 1 January. Thus, the day before "25 March 1720" O.S. (old style) was "24 March 1719" (O.S.). [Note 1] In most of continental Europe, the Gregorian calendar had already been adopted and the year began on 1 January 1720. In addition, the "old style" Julian Calendar was 13 days behind the "new style" Gregorian calendar, so the day recorded as 1 January 1719 "old style" in the British press is now considered 14 January 1720.

September

26 September
List of shipwrecks: 26 September 1720
ShipCountryDescription
Grand-Saint-Antoine  France Great Plague of Marseille: The plague-infested ship was burnt at Jarre Island, Bouches-du-Rhône by order of the Regent of Marseille. She was on a voyage from Sidon, Smyrna and Cyprus to Marseille.[1]

November

24 November
List of shipwrecks: 24 November 1720
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Monck Royal Navy The third rate frigate foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[2]

1721

January 1721 (N.S.)

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: January 1721
ShipCountryDescription
Africain  France The transport ship, a full-rigged ship, ran aground in the Loire River and was wrecked. She was on a voyage from Saint-Domingue to Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.[3]

November

10 November
List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1721
ShipCountryDescription
HMS Royal Anne Galley Royal Navy The fifth rate galley-frigate was wrecked on the Stags Rocks, in the English Channel off The Lizard, Cornwall, with the loss of all but three of the approximately 200 people on board.[4]

December

7 December
List of shipwrecks: 7 December 1721
ShipCountryDescription
Hind Royal Navy 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1711 and wrecked in 1721. The ship struck a rock "half a musket shot" off Castle Cornet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, on 7 December 1721, and 21 hands were lost including the Captain Fuzzard. The loss was attributed to the "ignorance of the pilot". 94 of the ship's company were saved.[5] Amongst those rescued was the ship's surgeon, Mr Forkington, "who was laid up with the gout, but made shift to swim to a rock not far distant, and the cold baths that endangered his life, hath effectively cured his said distemper."[6] The pilot was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment and loss of pay.[7]

1722

June

16 June
List of shipwrecks: 16 June 1722
ShipCountryDescription
Addison British East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[8]
Chandos British East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[9]

17 June
List of shipwrecks: 17 June 1722
ShipCountryDescription
Nightingale British East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[10]

November

20 November
List of shipwrecks: 21 November 1722
ShipCountryDescription
Schoonenberg Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman ran aground at Cape Agulhas, Africa, at 04h00 at night through negligence of her skipper and officers. All evidence contradict allegation of deliberate beaching.[11]

1723

January 1723 (N.S.)

18 January
List of shipwrecks: 18 January 1723
ShipCountryDescription
Fortuyn Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman departed from the Cape of Good Hope for the Netherlands East Indies on her maiden voyage. No further trace, possibly wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago.

1724

August
List of shipwrecks: August 1724
ShipCountryDescription
Guadaloupe  Spain The ship was wrecked in a hurricane in Saldaná Bay, Hispaniola.[12]
Tolosa  Spain The ship was wrecked in a hurricane in Saldaná Bay.[12]

December

21 December
List of shipwrecks: 21 December 1724
ShipCountryDescription
Christine  France The ship was wrecked near Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée with some loss of life.[13]

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: December 1724
ShipCountryDescription
Slot ter Hooge Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman struck rocks and sank off Porto Santo Island, Madeira, with the loss of 221 of the 254 people on board. She was on a voyage to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.[14]

1725

March 1725 (N.S.)

8 March
List of shipwrecks: 8 March 1725
ShipCountryDescription
Akerendam Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked on Runde, Norway.

August

26 August
List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1725
ShipCountryDescription
Chameau  French Navy The transport ship, a flutte, was wrecked north of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, with the loss of all 216 people on board. She was on a voyage from La Rochelle, Loire-Atlantique to Quebec City.[15]

1726

January 1726 (N.S.)

3 January

(3 January 1726 N.S. and 20 December 1725 O.S.)

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1726
ShipCountryDescription
Aagtekerke Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman departed from Cape Town for Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. No further trace, presumed lost with all 200 crew. Possibly wrecked in the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago.

September

6 September
List of shipwrecks: 6 September 1726
ShipCountryDescription
Santa Rosa  Portugal The galleon caught fire, exploded and sank off Recife, Brazil, with the loss of all but seven of the approximately 700 people on board. She was on a voyage from Salvador to Portugal.[16]

1727

June

9 June
List of shipwrecks: 9 June 1727
ShipCountryDescription
Zeewijk Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman ran aground and was wrecked off the Houtman Abrolhos with the loss of ten of her 208 crew. She was on her maiden voyage from Vlissingen, Zeeland, Dutch Republic, to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. Survivors built a sloop, the Sloepie from the wreck and 82 of them reached Batavia in her.

25 June
List of shipwrecks: 25 June 1727
ShipCountryDescription
Luxborough Galley South Sea Company
Luxborough Galley.
African slave trade: The ship was accidentally set on fire in the Atlantic Ocean and burnt down to the waterline with the eventual loss of all but eleven of her crew.

1728
A public house sign that depicts a ship believed to be sunk in UK waters, 1720s

There is a public house in Walmer, Kent, UK, called The Stag. The building dates from 1715 and, as an inn, it was tenanted from 1733 by Nathaniel Long, also a sailmaker. The Stag is believed to have sunk near Deal in 1728 'under ill-fated circumstances'. It is possible that Long had supplied the ship at some time.

1729

Unknown date
List of shipwrecks: 1729
ShipCountryDescription
Galera Victoria  Spanish Navy The frigate, a galleon, foundered off Gijón on her maiden voyage.[17]

Notes
  1. ^ Until 1752 in the British Empire, the year began on Lady Day (25 March) Thus 24 March 1720 was followed by 25 March 1721. 31 December 1721 was followed by 1 January 1721.

References
  1. "Grand-Saint-Antoine (+1720)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  2. "HMS Monck (+1720)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. "Africain (+1721)" (in French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  4. "1721 Cornwall shipwreck to be further studies". Xray Magazine. 28 June 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  5. "From the Whitehall Evening Post, Jan 2". Caledonian Mercury. British Newspaper Archive. 9 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  6. "From the Weekly Journal; Or, Saturday's Post, London Jan.6". Newcastle Courant. British Newspaper Archive. 13 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  7. "From the St Jame's Evening Post, London Jan.18". Newcastle Courant. British Newspaper Archive. 27 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  8. "Addison (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  9. "Chandos (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  10. "Nightingale (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  11. Malan Jan G.: Die Stranding van die VOC-skip Schoonenberg: Waarheid en Verdigsel. Kaapstad, Africana Uitgewers, 2017.
  12. "Guadalupe-Tolosa, sunk in 1724 in Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic". Sedwick. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  13. "SV Christine (+1724)" (in French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  14. "Slot ter Hooge, (Castle of Hooge) 1724". Artifact Exchange. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  15. "Chameau - 1725". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  16. "Santa Rosa (+1726)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  17. "Galera Victoria (+1729)" (in Spanish). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
Ship events in 1720
Ship launches: 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Ship commissionings: 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Ship decommissionings: 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Shipwrecks: 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Ship events in 1730
Ship launches: 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Ship commissionings: 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Ship decommissionings: 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Shipwrecks: 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
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