# List of shipwrecks in the 1700s

The list of shipwrecks in the 1700s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost from 1700 to 1709.

## 1700
### September
#### 19 September

List of shipwrecks: 19 September 1700 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Carlisle | Royal Navy | The 48-gun fourth rate exploded and sank in The Downs with the loss of 124 of the 128 crew on board. |

#### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: February 1700 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Thornton | British East India Company | The East Indiaman was wrecked at Port Quin, Cornwall. |
| Henrietta Marie | England | African slave trade: The ship was wrecked on the New Ground Reef, off the Marquesas Keys, Spanish Florida, with the loss of all hands. |

## 1701
### February
#### 25 February

List of shipwrecks: 25 February 1700 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Padang | Dutch East India Company | The frigate was reported lost while on a voyage from Batavia to Amboina. |

### December
#### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: December 1701 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Amity | Royal Africa Company | African slave trade: The slave ship was wrecked on a reef in Dunworley Bay, Ireland, with the loss of all but one of those on board. |

## 1702
### February
#### 21 February

List of shipwrecks: 21 February 1701 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Roebuck | Royal Navy | The fifth rate sprang a leak and sank in Clarence Bay, Ascension Island. Her crew survived. They were rescued on 8 April by Hastings ( East India Company) and three other East India Company vessels. |

### April
#### 3 April

List of shipwrecks: 3 April 1702 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Merestein | Dutch East India Company | The East Indiaman struck rocks and sank in Saldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa, with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board. |

### September
#### 30 September

List of shipwrecks: 30 September 1702 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Glocester Frigot | British East India Company | The ship departed from Plymouth, Devon for Bencoolen, India. No further trace. |

### October
#### 23 October

List of shipwrecks: October 1702 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Dauphin | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 46-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
| Espérance | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
| Fort | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 76-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
| Oriflamme | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 64-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
| Prudent | 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 | Spanish Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The ship was sunk during the battle. |
| Sirène | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 60-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
| Solide | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 56-gun ship was set afire and destroyed following the battle. |
| Superbe | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 70-gun ship was run ashore and wrecked in Vigo Bay. |
| Voluntaire | French Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Battle of Vigo Bay: The 46-gun ship was run ashore in Vigo Bay. |

### November
#### 22 November

List of shipwrecks: 22 November 1702 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Amsterdam | Dutch East India Company | The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) type pinnace foundered en route to Basra from Bombay during a storm. All hands were lost. |

## 1703
### January
#### 7 January

List of shipwrecks: 7 January 1702 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Speaker | John Bowen | The ship foundered off the east coast of Mauritius. Her 170 crew survived. The Dutch East India Company sold Bowen a sloop, the Vliegendehart, which they enlarged and sailed away in. |

### November
#### 25 November

List of shipwrecks: 25 November 1703 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Unnamed ship | Dutch Republic | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England with the loss of all hands. |

#### 27 November

List of shipwrecks: 27 November 1703 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Canterbury | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The storeship foundered off Bristol with the loss of 26 of her crew. Later salvaged and sold. |
| HMS Eagle | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The advice boat sank at Selsey, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. |
| HMS Mary | Royal Navy | 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 | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel was wrecked on the Dutch coasts. |
| HMS Newcastle | 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 | 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 | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel foundered at the Nore with the loss of 44 of her crew. |
| HMS Reserve | 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 | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The third rate ship of the line was abandoned off Pevensey, Sussex. Her crew survived. |
| HMS Restoration | 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 | 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 | 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 | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The fourth rate ship of the line was wrecked on the Dutch coast. |
| HMS York | 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. |

### December
#### 2 December

List of shipwrecks: 2 December 1703 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Mortar | Royal Navy | Great Storm of 1703: The bomb vessel ran ashore on the Dutch coast. |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: November 1703 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Bandera | Spain | The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon, Gloucestershire, England with the loss of all hands. |
| Richard & John | England | The ship foundered at the mouth of the River Avon with the loss of all hands. |

## 1704
### August

List of shipwrecks: August 1704 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| John and Ann | England | The ship was wrecked near Cardigan. |

### January
#### 31 January

List of shipwrecks: 3 January 1704 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Albemarle | British East India Company | The ship departed on this date. She was subsequently lost at "Balparro". |

### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 1704 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Castle Del Ray | unknown | The ship was driven ashore and sank at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, English America. |
| Cinque Ports | England | The ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off Malpelo Island, Viceroyalty of Peru. Her crew survived. |

## 1705
### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: 1705 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Apostol | Spain | The ship sank in Pensacola Bay, Spanish Florida. |
| Swan | Unknown | The brigantine was lost in the vicinity of "Squan," a term used at the time for the coast of New Jersey near Manasquan and sometimes for the 7-mile (11 km) stretch of coast between Manasquan Inlet and Cranberry Inlet or for the entire coast of New Jersey between Sea Girt and Barnegat Inlet. |

## 1706
### October
#### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: October 1706 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Major | England | The pink was wrecked near Cardigan. |

### November
#### 19 November

List of shipwrecks: 19 November 1706 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Hazardous | Royal Navy | The fourth rate ran aground and sank at Bracklesham Bay, Sussex. |

## 1707
### October
#### 22 October

List of shipwrecks: 22 October 1707 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| HMS Association | Royal Navy | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The second rate ship of the line struck the Outer Gilstone Rock, off the Isles of Scilly and sank with the loss of all hands, approximately 800 men. |
| HMS Eagle | Royal Navy | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The third rate ship of the line was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of all hands. |
| HMS Firebrand | Royal Navy | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The fireship struck the Outer Gilstone Rock and consequently foundered in Smith Soud, off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of 28 of her 40 crew. |
| HMS Romney | Royal Navy | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The fourth rate ship of the line struck the Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, and foundered with the loss of all but one of her crew. |
| HMS St George | Royal Navy | Scilly naval disaster of 1707: The first rate ship of the line struck rocks off the Isles of Scilly. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service. |

### December
#### 31 December

List of shipwrecks: 31 December 1707 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Norske Løve | Danish East India Company | The East Indiaman sank in Lambavík, Faroe Islands. About 100 crew survived. |

#### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in December 1707 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Unnamed ship | Dunkerque | The privateer was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain, with the loss of all 60 crew. |

## 1708
### January
#### Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: January 1707 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Samuel | England | The ship was wrecked near Cardigan. |

### June
#### 8 June

List of shipwrecks: 8 June 1708 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Concepción | Spain | War of the Spanish Succession, Wager's Action): The ship ran aground on the Isla de Baru. She was set afire and destroyed to prevent her capture by the British. |
| San José | Spanish Navy | War of the Spanish Succession, Wager's Action): The galleon exploded and sank off the Isla de Baru during battle with HMS Expedition ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all but eleven of the 600 people on board. |