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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

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.[1]

December

Unknown date

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.[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

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

November

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.[4]

1712

March

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1712
Ship State Description
HMS Dragon Kingdom of Great Britain 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

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.[7]

1713

March

15 March

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.[8]

1714

May

28 May

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.[9]

January

1 January

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.[10]

1715

July

31 July

List of shipwrecks: 31 July 1715
Ship State Description
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

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.[14][15]

1716

September

20 September

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.[16]

November

10 November

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

1717

April

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1717
Ship State Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1717
Ship State Description
HDMS Lossen Denmark 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

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

1719

March

2 March

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.[17]

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: March 1719
Ship State Description
HMS Crown Kingdom of Great Britain 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. ^ a b c d e f 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.
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