List of shipwrecks in the 1710s
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The list of shipwrecks in the 1710s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the 1710s.
1710
March
2 March
| 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
10 July
| 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
11 December
| 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. 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kromstrijen |  Dutch East India Company |
The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was lost in the Gulf of Bengal.[5] |
1711
October
7 October
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Feversham |  Royal Navy |
Quebec Expedition: The fifth rate was wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia, with the loss of 102 lives. |
| Joseph |  Great Britain |
Quebec Expedition: The transport ship was wrecked on the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. |
| Mary | Great Britain |
Quebec Expedition: The transport ship was wrecked on the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. |
| Neptune | Great Britain |
Quebec Expedition: The transport ship was wrecked on the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. |
November
23 November
| 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
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Edgar | Royal Navy |
The third-rate ship of the line was destroyed by fire at Spithead, Hampshire. |
1712
March
16 March
| 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
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Zuytdorp | Dutch East India Company |
The East Indiaman was wrecked at a location now known as Zuytdorp Cliffs, Australia.[10] |
August
24 August
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Unnamed |  Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship was wrecked in Lake Ladoga near Novaya Ladoga. She was on a voyage from Olonetskaya shipyard to Saint Petersburg.[11] |
1713
March
15 March
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rijnenburg | Dutch East India Company |
The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was wrecked off the Shetland Islands, Great Britain.[12] |
July
11 July
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Riga (Рига) | Imperial Russian Navy |
Great Northern War: The Riga-class ship of the line (flagship of vice admiral Cornelius Cruys) ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.[11] |
| Svyatoy Antony (Святой Антоний, 'St. Anthony') | Imperial Russian Navy |
Great Northern War: The ship of the line ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.[11] |
| Vyborg (Выборг) | 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. Her hull broke open the next day and she was burnt to prevent capture by the Swedes.[11] |
1714
May
28 May
| 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
27 July
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | Imperial Russian Navy |
Great Northern War: The galley ran aground off the Hanko Peninsula and was captured by the Swedes.[11] |
October
10 October
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adélaïde | 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
2 November
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Narva (Нарва) | Imperial Russian Navy |
The Svyataya Yekaterina-class ship of the line ran aground at Petergof. She was refloated on 9 November.[14] |
January
1 January
| 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
June
27 June
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Narva (Нарва) | Imperial Russian Navy |
The Svyataya Yekaterina-class ship of the line was struck by lightning, exploded and sank at Kronstadt with only 19 of her 400 crew surviving. The wreck was raised after the Treaty of Nystad had been signed in 1721, as it was hindering navigation.[11] |
July
31 July
| 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
25 August
| 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] |
September
Unknown date
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Transport (Транспорт-Рояль) | Imperial Russian Navy |
Great Northern War: The yacht, gifted to Peter the Great by William III of England in 1698,[21] was wrecked near Gothenburg, Sweden. Twenty-one crew were taken prisoner by the Swedes.[22]: 192–193 [11] The wreck was claimed to have been found in 2015.[23] |
Unknown date
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Unnamed | Imperial Russian Navy |
The transport ship was wrecked near Gothenburg, Sweden.[24] |
1716
August
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Massachusetts Bay |
The new fishing schooner sank in mid August off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Lost with all hands.[25] |
September
20 September
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine | .svg){kind=small} British East India Company |
The East Indiaman ran aground and was wrecked in the Sunda Strait.[26] |
October
20 October
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lizet (Лизет, 'Lisette') | Imperial Russian Navy |
The snow ran aground and was wrecked in the vicinity of Stevns Klint, Denmark. Her crew were rescued.[24][11] |
November
9 November
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fortuna (Фортуна) | Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship ran aground and was wrecked the following day at Reval. Her crew were rescued.[11] |
| Svyatoy Antony (Святой Антоний, 'St. Anthony') | Imperial Russian Navy |
The transport ship ran aground and was wrecked the following day at Reval with the loss of all hands.[11] |
10 November
| 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
1 December
Unknown date
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lyustikh (Люстих, 'Lustig') | Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship was presumed to have foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands.[11] |
1717
April
26 April
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Whydah Gally |  Samuel 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.[27] |
December
25 December
| 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
June
10 June
| 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
March
2 March
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vansittart | British East India Company |
The East Indiaman was wrecked on Maio Island, Cape Verde Islands,[28] on the outward leg of her maiden voyage to Madras. |
Unknown date
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HMS Crown | Royal Navy |
The fourth rate frigate was wrecked. |
May
23 May
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lesnoye (Лесное) | Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship of the line was holed by her own anchor, capsized and sank at Kronstadt. She was later refloated.[24] |
October
1 October
| Ship | State | Description |
|---|---|---|
| London (Лондон) | Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship of the line ran aground and was wrecked near the Tolbukhin Spit, west of Kotlin Island. She was on a voyage from Reval to Kronstadt.[11] Her crew were rescued.[24] The area subsequently became known as the London Shallows.[11] |
| Portsmut (Портсмут, 'Portsmouth') | Imperial Russian Navy |
The ship of the line ran aground and was wrecked near the Tolbukhin Spit, west of Kotlin Island. She was on a voyage from Reval to Kronstadt.[11] Her crew were rescued.[24] |
Notes
- ^ 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.