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List of shipwrecks in the 1710s

The list of shipwrecks in the 1710s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the 1710s.

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1710 edit

March edit

2 March edit

List of shipwrecks: March 1710
Ship State Description
Christianus Quintus   Denmark African slave trade: The ship was wrecked near Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica.[1]
Fredericus Quartus   Denmark African slave trade: The ship was wrecked near Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica.[1]

July edit

10 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 July 1710
Ship State Description
Herbert unknown The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, British America. Her crew were rescued.[2]

December edit

11 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1710
Ship State Description
Nottingham Galley   Great Britain During a voyage from London to Boston, the ship was driven ashore and wrecked on rocks on Boon Island off York, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Maine), British America. Her wreck sank at 43°07′18″N 070°28′36″W / 43.12167°N 70.47667°W / 43.12167; -70.47667 (Nottingham Galley). Sources differ on how many members of her crew survived, claiming both that all 14 did and that four perished and 10 survived. The survivors were stranded on Boon Island for 28 days before they were rescued.[3][4]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: December 1710
Ship State Description
Kromstrijen   Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was lost in the Gulf of Bengal.[5]

1711 edit

October edit

7 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1711
Ship State Description
HMS Feversham   Royal Navy The fifth rate was wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia, with the loss of 102 lives.

November edit

23 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1711
Ship State Description
Bretagne   Kingdom of France The Saint Malo privateer frigate hit rocks, while leaving her home port, and broke up beneath the Fort de la Latte. The crew survived.[6]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: November 1711
Ship State Description
Liefde   Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked off the Shetland Islands, Great Britain, with the loss of all but one of her 300 crew.[7][dead link]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1711
Ship State Description
HMS Edgar   Royal Navy The third-rate ship of the line was destroyed by fire at Spithead, Hampshire.

1712 edit

March edit

16 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1712
Ship State Description
HMS Dragon   Royal Navy The fourth rate frigate was escorting a convoy from Guernsey to England when it was wrecked on Les Casquets, west of Alderney, Channel Islands, with no recorded lives lost. [8] [9]

June edit

List of shipwrecks: June 1712
Ship State Description
Zuytdorp   Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked at a location now known as Zuytdorp Cliffs, Australia.[10]

August edit

24 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1712
Ship State Description
Unnamed   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Lake Ladoga.[11]

1713 edit

March edit

15 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 15 March 1713
Ship State Description
Rijnenburg   Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was wrecked off the Shetland Islands, Great Britain.[12]

July edit

11 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1713
Ship State Description
Sviatoy Antoniy   Imperial Russian Navy Great Northern War: The ship ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.[11]
Riga   Imperial Russian Navy Great Northern War: The Riga-class ship of the line ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.[11]
Sviatoi Georgii   Imperial Russian Navy Great Northern War: The ship ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy Squadron. She was refloated.[11]
Vyborg   Imperial Russian Navy Great Northern War: The Riga-class ship of the line ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She started to break up the next day and was burnt to prevent capture by the Swedes.[11]

1714 edit

May edit

28 May edit

List of shipwrecks: 28 May 1714
Ship State Description
Arion   Dutch East India Company The East Indiaman ran aground and was wrecked in the Paracel Islands. She was on a voyage from Batavia, Netherlands East Indies, to a Japanese port.[13]

July edit

27 July edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1714
Ship State Description
Unnamed   Imperial Russian Navy Russo-Swedish War: The galley ran aground off the Hanko Peninsula and was captured by the Swedes.[11]

October edit

10 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1714
Ship State Description
Adelaide   Kingdom of France A hurricane wrecked the ship as she was on her way to Havana after she had delivered a cargo of slaves from West Africa to Saint Domingue.

November edit

2 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1714
Ship State Description
Narva   Imperial Russian Navy The Sviataia Ekaterina-class ship of the line ran aground at Petershoff. She was refloated on 9 November.[14]

January edit

1 January edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1712
Ship State Description
Saint Jerome   Kingdom of France The ship foundered off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Quebec to a French port.[15]

1715 edit

June edit

27 June edit

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1715
Ship State Description
Narva   Imperial Russian Navy The Sviataya Ekaterina-class ship of the line was struck by lightning, exploded and sank at Cronstadt with the loss of 389 of her 400 crew. The wreck was refloated after the Treaty of Nystad had been signed in 1721, as it was hindering navigation.[11]

July edit

31 July edit

Further information: 1715 Treasure Fleet
List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1715
Ship State Description
Almiramta   Spain The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
Capitana   Spain The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
El Ciervo   Spain The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
Maria Galante   Spain The balandrita was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[17]
Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion   Spain The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
Nuestra Señora de las Nieves   Spain The patache was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[18]
San Miguel   Spanish Navy The frigate was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
Refuerzo   Spain The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.[16]
Santísima Trinidad   Spain The ship ran aground near Fort Pierce, Spanish Florida, in a hurricane. She was set afire and destroyed after her cargo had been salvaged.

August edit

25 August edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1715
Ship State Description
Huis te Warmelo   Dutch Republic Navy The fourth rate frigate foundered in the Gulf of Finland with the loss of all 130 people on board.[19][20]

1716 edit

August edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown August 1716
Ship State Description
Unknown   Massachusetts Bay The new fishing schooner sank in mid August off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Lost with all hands.[21]

September edit

20 September edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 September 1716
Ship State Description
Catherine   British East India Company The East Indiaman ran aground and was wrecked in the Sunda Strait.[22]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in September 1716
Ship State Description
Royal Transport   Imperial Russian Navy Great Northern War: The Imperial Yacht was driven ashore near Gothenburg, Sweden. Twenty-one crew were taken prisoner by the Swedes.[11]

October edit

20 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1716
Ship State Description
Liset   Imperial Russian Navy The shnyava was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Denmark. Her crew were rescued.[11]

November edit

9 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1716
Ship State Description
Ekaterina   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Fortuna   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Reval. Her crew were rescued.[11]
Gavriil   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Michael   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Pearl   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Poltava   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Raphael   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Selafail   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.[11]
Sviatoy Anthoniy   Imperial Russian Navy The transport ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Reval with the loss of all hands.[11]

10 November edit

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1716
Ship State Description
HMS Auguste   Royal Navy The Man-of-war was driven ashore and wrecked on Læsø, Denmark. Most of her crew survived.

December edit

1 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1716
Ship State Description
Princessa   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was wrecked on "Remus Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jutland to Holland.[11]

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1716
Ship State Description
Lusitch   Imperial Russian Navy The ship was presumed to have foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands.[11]

1717 edit

April edit

26 April edit

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1717
Ship State Description
Whydah Gally   "Black Sam" Bellamy The 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galley — a pirate ship — grounded during a storm off a portion of Eastham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America, that later became Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 500 yards (460 m) off what later became known as Marconi Beach. She capsized and was wrecked with the loss of all but two of her crew. Her wreck settled in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water.[23]

December edit

25 December edit

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1717
Ship State Description
HDMS Lossen   Dano-Norwegian Navy Christmas Flood of 1717: The frigate was wrecked on Vesterøy with the loss of about 50 of her 103 crew.

1718 edit

June edit

10 June edit

List of shipwrecks: May 1718
Ship State Description
Queen Anne's Revenge   Blackbeard The frigate ran aground in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, British America
Adventure   Blackbeard The sloop ran aground in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, British America

1719 edit

March edit

2 March edit

List of shipwrecks: 2 March 1719
Ship State Description
Vansittart   British East India Company The East Indiaman was wrecked on Maio Island, Cape Verde Islands,[24] on the outward leg of her maiden voyage to Madras.

Unknown date edit

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in March 1719
Ship State Description
HMS Crown   Royal Navy The fourth rate frigate was wrecked.

October edit

1 October edit

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1719
Ship State Description
London   Imperial Russian Navy The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Tolbukhovina Spit, off Kotlin Island.[11]
Portsmouth   Imperial Russian Navy The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Tolbukhovina Spit.[11]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Until 1752, in Great Britain and its possessions, the year began on Lady Day (25 March) Thus 24 March 1710 was followed by 25 March 1711. 31 December 1711 was followed by 1 January 1711. In most of Europe (though not Russia or Greece) and Latin America, 24 March 1711 was followed by 25 March 1711, and 31 December 1711 was followed by 1 January 1712.

References edit

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