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
1720 did not begin on 1 January![Note 1]
September
- 26 September
- Grand-Saint-Antoine (
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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
- HMS Monck (
Royal Navy): The third rate frigate foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[2]
1721
January
- Unknown date
- 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
- 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
- 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 the 7th 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
- Addison (
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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.[8]
- 17 June
- Nightingale ( British East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[8]
November
- 21 November
- Schonenberg (
Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was deliberately run aground at Cape Agulhas, Africa by her captain. she was subsequently set afire and destroyed.[9][10]
1723
January
- 18 January
- 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
- Guadaloupe (
Spain): The ship was wrecked in a hurricane in Saldaná Bay, Hispaniola.[11] - Tolosa ( Spain): The ship was wrecked in a hurricane in Saldaná Bay.[11]
December
- 21 December
- Christine ( France): The ship was wrecked near Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée with some loss of life.[12]
Unknown date
- 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.[13]
1725
March
- 8 March
- Akerendam ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked on Runde, Norway.
August
- 26 August
- 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.[14]
1726
September
- 6 September
- Santa Rosa (
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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.[15]
January
- 3 January
- 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.
1727
June
- 9 June
- 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
Luxborough Galley.
- Luxborough Galley (
South Sea Company): 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
- 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
A public house sign that depicts a ship believed to be sunk in UK waters, 1720s
1729
Unknown date
- Galera Victoria ( Spanish Navy): The frigate, a galleon, foundered off Gijón on her maiden voyage.[16]
Notes
- ^ Until 1752, 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
- ↑ "Grand-Saint-Antoine (+1720)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "HMS Monck (+1720)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "Africain (+1721)" (in French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "1721 Cornwall shipwreck to be further studies". Xray Magazine. 28 June 2008. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "From the Whitehall Evening Post, Jan 2". Caledonian Mercury (British Newspaper Archive). 9 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "From the Weekly Journal; Or, Saturday's Post, London Jan.6". Newcastle Courant (British Newspaper Archive). 13 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ "From the St Jame's Evening Post, London Jan.18". Newcastle Courant (British Newspaper Archive). 27 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014. (subscription required (help)).
- 1 2 3 "Addison (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ ""The Schonenberg 1722" (page 1 of 2)". Shipwreck. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ ""The Schonenberg 1722" (page 2 of 2)". Shipwreck. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- 1 2 "Guadalupe-Tolosa, sunk in 1724 in Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic". Sedwick. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "SV Christine (+1724)" (in French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ↑ "Slot ter Hooge, (Castle of Hooge) 1724". Artifact Exchange. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "Chameau - 1725". Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ "Santa Rosa (+1726)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ↑ "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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