List of shipwrecks in the 1710s

The List of shipwrecks in the 1710s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1710s.

1710

1710 did not begin on 1 January!^{[Note 1]}

July

10 July

• Herbert (flag unknown): The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, British America. Her crew were rescued.^[1]

December

Unknown date

• Kromstrijen ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was lost in the Gulf of Bengal.^[2]
• Nottingham Galley ( Great Britain): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Boon Island, Maine, British America. Her fourteen crew survived.^[3]

1711

October

7 October

• HMS Feversham ( Royal Navy): The fifth rate was wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia with the loss of 102 lives.

November

• 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.^[4]

1712

March

16 March

• 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. ^{[5] [6]}

June

• Zuytdorp ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked at a location now known as Zuytdorp Cliffs, Australia.^[7]

1713

March

15 March

• Rijnenburg ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman, a fluyt, was wrecked off the Shetland Islands, Great Britain.^[8]

1714

May

28 May

• 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.^[9]

January

1 January

• 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.^[10]

1715

July

31 July

• Almiramta ( Spain): The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• Capitana ( Spain): The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• El Ciervo ( Spain): The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• Maria Galante ( Spain): The balandrita was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[12]
• Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion ( Spain): The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• Nuestra Señora de las Nieves ( Spain): The patache was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[13]
• San Miguel ( Spanish Navy): The frigate was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• Refuerzo ( Spain): The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.^[11]
• 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

• 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.^[14][15]

1716

September

20 September

• Catherine ( British East India Company): The East Indiaman ran aground and was wrecked in the Sunda Strait.^[16]

November

10 November

• HMS Auguste ( Royal Navy): The Man-of-war was driven ashore and wrecked on Læsø, Denmark. Most of her crew survived.

1717

April

26 April

• Whydah Gally ( "Black Sam" Bellamy): The galley capsized and was wrecked at Wellfleet, Massachusetts, British America with the loss of all but two of her crew.

December

25 December

• 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

May

Unknown date

• Queen Anne's Revenge ( Blackbeard): The frigate ran aground in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, British America

1719

March

2 March

• Vansittart ( British East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked on Maio Island, Cape Verde Islands.^[17]

Unknown date

• HMS Crown ( Royal Navy): The fourth rate frigate was wrecked.

Notes

1. ^ Until 1752, 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.

References

1. "The Herbert Shipwreck". Aquaexplorers. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
2. "Kromstrijen 1706" (in Dutch). De VOC site. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
3. "Shipwreck of 1710 to be marked in Maine". Boston.com. 5 December 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2010.
4. "#7584 DeLiefde Shipwreck Ducat Pendant". Lost Galleon. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
5. "1712 Wreck of HMS Dragon".
6. "HMS Dragon [+1711]".
7. "The Wreck of the Zuytdorp". Sharkbay. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
8. "Rijnenburg 1704 (ook Reynenburg)" (in Dutch). De VOC site. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
9. "Arion 1706" (in Dutch). De VOC site. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
10. "Saint Jerome (+1714)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
11. DeBry, John. "THE 1715 FLEET DISASTER". Wreckoverysalvage. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
12. "Maria Galante (+1715)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
13. "Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (+1715)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
14. Pieters, Janene. "Eighteenth century Dutch warship found in Gulf of Finland". NL Times. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
15. "Dutch Fourth Rate ship of the line 'Huis te Warmelo' (1708)". Threedecks. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
16. "Catherine (+1716)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
17. "Vansittart (+1719)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

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

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