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

December

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: December 1710

Ship	Country	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	Country	Description
HMS Feversham	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	Country	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	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: June 1712

Ship	Country	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	Country	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	Country	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	Country	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	Country	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	Country	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	Country	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	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1717

Ship	Country	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	Country	Description
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

List of shipwrecks: May 1718

Ship	Country	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	Country	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	Country	Description
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.

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