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
In the British Empire, 1720 began on 25 March 25 rather than on 1 January. Thus, the day before "25 March 1720" O.S. (old style) was "24 March 1719" (O.S.). [Note 1] In most of continental Europe, the Gregorian calendar had already been adopted and the year began on 1 January 1720. In addition, the "old style" Julian Calendar was 13 days behind the "new style" Gregorian calendar, so the day recorded as 1 January 1719 "old style" in the British press is now considered 14 January 1720.
26 September
Ship | Country | Description |
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Grand-Saint-Antoine | 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] |
24 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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HMS Monck | Royal Navy | The third rate frigate foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.[2] |
1721
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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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] |
10 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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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] |
12 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nystadt | Imperial Russian Navy | The ship ran aground and was wrecked off Saaremaa. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Holland to Cronstadt.[5] |
7 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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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 7 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.[6] 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."[7] The pilot was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced to three years imprisonment and loss of pay.[8] |
1722
16 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Addison | British East India Company | The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[9] |
Chandos | British East India Company | The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[10] |
17 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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Nightingale | British East India Company | The East Indiaman was wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope.[11] |
20 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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Schoonenberg | Dutch East India Company | The East Indiaman ran aground at Cape Agulhas, Africa, at 04h00 at night through negligence of her skipper and officers. All evidence contradict allegation of deliberate beaching.[12] |
1724
18 January (N.S.)
Ship | Country | Description |
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Fortuyn | Dutch East India Company | The East Indiaman departed from Texel in the Netherlands on 27 September 1723 and reached the Cape of Good Hope on 2 January 1724 (20 December 1723 O.S.) On 18 January 1724 (dated as "5 January 1723" on the British calendar, she left for the Netherlands East Indies. No further trace, possibly wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos archipelago. |
24 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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Thirteen unnamed vessels | Imperial Russian Navy | The ships were driven ashore at Derbent.[5] |
25 unnamed vessels | Imperial Russian Navy | The ships were driven ashore 30 versts (17 nautical miles (32 km) from Chechen' Island.[5] |
Unknown date
19 November
Ship | Country | Description |
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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. [14]
She was on a voyage to Batavia, Netherlands East Indies.[15] |
21 December
Ship | Country | Description |
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Christine | France | The ship was wrecked near Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée with some loss of life.[16] |
1725
8 March
Ship | Country | Description |
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Akerendam | Dutch East India Company | The East Indiaman was wrecked on Runde, Norway. |
26 August
Ship | Country | Description |
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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.[17] |
1726
3 January
(3 January 1726 N.S. and 20 December 1725 O.S.)
Ship | Country | Description |
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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
9 June
Ship | Country | Description |
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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
Ship | Country | Description |
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Luxborough Galley | South Sea Company |
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.
1729
Unknown date
Ship | Country | Description |
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Galera Victoria | Spanish Navy | The frigate, a galleon, foundered off Gijón on her maiden voyage.[19] |
Notes
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.
- Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche.
- "From the Whitehall Evening Post, Jan 2". Caledonian Mercury. British Newspaper Archive. 9 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- "From the Weekly Journal; Or, Saturday's Post, London Jan.6". Newcastle Courant. British Newspaper Archive. 13 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- "From the St Jame's Evening Post, London Jan.18". Newcastle Courant. British Newspaper Archive. 27 January 1722. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- "Addison (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "Chandos (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "Nightingale (+1722)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- Malan Jan G.: Die Stranding van die VOC-skip Schoonenberg: Waarheid en Verdigsel. Kaapstad, Africana Uitgewers, 2017.
- "Guadalupe-Tolosa, sunk in 1724 in Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic". Sedwick. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "Het schip Slot Ter Hoge", Maritiem Erfgoed] (Dutch)
- "Slot ter Hooge, (Castle of Hooge) 1724". Artifact Exchange. Archived from the original on 18 December 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- "SV Christine (+1724)" (in French). Wrecksite. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- "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.