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The list of shipwrecks in the 1700s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost from 1700 to 1709.
1700 [ ]
September [ ]
19 September [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1700
Ship
Country
Description
HMS Carlisle
Royal Navy
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 [ ]
1701 [ ]
February [ ]
25 February [ ]
December [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
List of shipwrecks: December 1701
Ship
Country
Description
Amity
Royal Africa Company
African slave trade : The slave ship was wrecked on a reef in , Ireland , with the loss of all but one of those on board.[4]
1702 [ ]
February [ ]
21 February [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1701
Ship
Country
Description
HMS Roebuck
Royal Navy
The fifth rate sprang a leak and sank in Clarence Bay , Ascension Island . Her crew survived. They were rescued on 8 April by Hastings ( East India Company ) and three other East India Company vessels.
April [ ]
3 April [ ]
September [ ]
30 September [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1702
Ship
Country
Description
Glocester Frigot
British East India Company
The ship departed from Plymouth , Devon for Bencoolen , India . No further trace.[6]
October [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
List of shipwrecks: October 1702
Ship
Country
Description
Dauphin
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 46-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Espérance
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay .
Fort
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 76-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Oriflamme
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 64-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Prudent
French Navy
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
Spanish Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The ship was sunk during the battle.[7]
Sirène
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 60-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay.
Solide
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 56-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Superbe
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay.
Voluntaire
French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 46-gun ship was run ashore in Vigo Bay.
November [ ]
22 November [ ]
1703 [ ]
January [ ]
7 January [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1702
Ship
Country
Description
Speaker
John Bowen
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 [ ]
27 November [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1703
Ship
Country
Description
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The storeship foundered off Bristol with the loss of 26 of her crew.[1] Later salvaged and sold.[10]
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The advice boat sank at Selsey , Sussex . Her crew were rescued.[1]
HMS Mary
Royal Navy
The Great Storm at the Goodwin Sands.
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line , a frigate , was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands , Kent . Only one of the 273 crew on board survived.
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The bomb vessel was wrecked on the Dutch coasts.[1]
HMS Newcastle
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The fourth rate frigate was wrecked at Spithead , Hampshire , with the loss of 229 of her crew.
HMS Northumberland
Royal Navy
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.
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The bomb vessel foundered at the Nore with the loss of 44 of her crew.[1]
HMS Reserve
Royal Navy
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
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line was abandoned off Pevensey , Sussex . Her crew survived.
HMS Restoration
Royal Navy
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
Royal Navy
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
Royal Navy
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
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The fourth rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Dutch coast.
HMS York
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The 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 [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1703
Ship
Country
Description
Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The bomb vessel ran ashore on the Dutch coast.[11]
Unknown date [ ]
List of shipwrecks: November 1703
Ship
Country
Description
Bandera
Spain
The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon , Gloucestershire , England with the loss of all hands.
Richard & John
England
The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon with the loss of all hands.[12]
1704 [ ]
August [ ]
List of shipwrecks: August 1704
Ship
Country
Description
John and Ann
England
The ship was wrecked near Cardigan .[13]
January [ ]
31 January [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1704
Ship
Country
Description
Albemarle
British East India Company
The ship departed on this date. She was subsequently lost at "Balparro".[6]
Unknown date [ ]
1705 [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
1706 [ ]
October [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
November [ ]
19 November [ ]
1707 [ ]
October [ ]
22 October [ ]
December [ ]
31 December [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
1708 [ ]
January [ ]
Unknown date [ ]
List of shipwrecks: January 1707
Ship
Country
Description
Samuel
England
The ship was wrecked near Cardigan .[13]
June [ ]
8 June [ ]
List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1708
Ship
Country
Description
Concepción
Spain
War of the Spanish succession , Wager's Action ): The ship ran aground on the . She was set afire and destroyed to prevent her capture by the British.
San José
Spanish Navy
War of the Spanish succession , Wager's Action ): The galleon exploded and sank off the Isla de Baru during battle with HMS Expedition ( Royal Navy ) with the loss of all but eleven of the 600 people on board.
1709 [ ]
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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. "The wreck of the pirate ship Speaker on Mauritius in 1702" . The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration . The Nautical Archaeology Trust Ltd. 13 (2): 121–32.
^ "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. 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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