The list of shipwrecks in the 1700s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost from 1700 to 1709.
1700
September
19 September
Unknown date
1701
February
25 February
December
Unknown date
1702
February
21 February
April
3 April
September
30 September
October
23 October
List of shipwrecks: October 1702
Ship
State
Description
Dauphin
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 46-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Espérance
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay .
Fort
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 76-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Oriflamme
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 64-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Prudent
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 60-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje
File:Bandera de España 1701-1748.svg Spanish Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The ship was sunk during the battle.[ 7]
Sirène
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 60-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay.
Solide
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 56-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle.
Superbe
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay.
Voluntaire
File:Flag of the Kingdom of France (1814-1830).svg French Navy
War of the Spanish Succession , Battle of Vigo Bay : The 46-gun ship was run ashore in Vigo Bay.
November
22 November
1703
January
7 January
November
25 November
27 November
List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1703
Ship
State
Description
HMS Canterbury
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The storeship foundered off Bristol with the loss of 26 of her crew.[ 1] Later salvaged and sold.[ 10]
HMS Eagle
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The advice boat sank at Selsey , Sussex . Her crew were rescued.[ 1]
HMS Mary
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
File:Great Storm 1703 Goodwin Sands engraving.PNG The Great Storm at the Goodwin Sands. Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line , a Speaker -class frigate , was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands , Kent . Only one of the 273 crew on board survived.
HMS Mortar
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The bomb vessel was wrecked on the Dutch coasts.[ 1]
HMS Newcastle
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The fourth rate frigate was wrecked at Spithead , Hampshire , with the loss of 229 of her crew.
HMS Northumberland
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all 253 of her crew.
HMS Portsmouth
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The bomb vessel foundered at the Nore with the loss of 44 of her crew.[ 1]
HMS Reserve
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The fourth rate frigate foundered in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth , Norfolk , with the loss of all but one of her 270 crew.
HMS Resolution
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line was abandoned off Pevensey , Sussex . Her crew survived.
HMS Restoration
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all 387 of her crew.
HMS Stirling Castle
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The third rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands with the loss of all but 70 of her 349 crew.
HMS Vanguard
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The second rate ship of the line sank at Chatham Dockyard , Kent. She was refloated in 1704, rebuilt and relaunched in 1710.
HMS Vigo
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The fourth rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Dutch coast.
HMS York
File:English Red Ensign 1620.svg Royal Navy
Great Storm of 1703 : The Speaker -class frigate sank at Harwich , Essex , with the loss of four of her crew.
Two merchant ships
Flag unknown
Great Storm of 1703 : a ship was driven into a pink in The Downs, both vessels foundered.[ 1]
December
2 December
Unknown date
1704
August
January
31 January
Unknown date
1705
Unknown date
1706
October
Unknown date
November
19 November
1707
October
22 October
December
31 December
Unknown date
1708
January
Unknown date
June
8 June
1709
Notes
^ Until 1752, the year began on Lady Day (25 March) Thus 24 March 1700 was followed by 25 March 1701. 31 December 1701 was followed by 1 January 1701.
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↑ 6.0 6.1 Throckmorton, Peter. "The Great Basses Wreck" (PDF) . Expedition . No. Spring 1964. pp. 21–31.
↑ "Santo Cristo del Buen Viaje (+1704)" . Wrecksite. Retrieved 1 February 2015 .
↑ Lettens, Jan. "Amsterdam (+1702)" . Wrecksite . Retrieved 22 November 2018 .
↑ Lizé, Patrick (1984). "The wreck of the pirate ship Speaker on Mauritius in 1702" . The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration . 13 (2). The Nautical Archaeology Trust Ltd: 121–32. doi :10.1111/j.1095-9270.1984.tb01182.x .
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↑ Lettens, Jan. "HMS Mortar (+1703)" . Wrecksite . Retrieved 2 December 2016 .
↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks" (PDF) . Swansea Docks. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2015 .
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