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The list of shipwrecks in the 1710s includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during the 1710s.

1710

March

2 March

List of shipwrecks: March 1710

Ship	State	Description
Christianus Quintus	Denmark	African slave trade: The ship was wrecked near Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica.
Fredericus Quartus	Denmark	African slave trade: The ship was wrecked near Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica.

July

10 July

December

11 December

List of shipwrecks: 11 December 1710

Ship	State	Description
Nottingham Galley	Great Britain	During a voyage from London to Boston, the ship was driven ashore and wrecked on rocks on Boon Island off York, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Maine), British America. Her wreck sank at 43°07′18″N 070°28′36″W / 43.12167°N 70.47667°W / 43.12167; -70.47667 (Nottingham Galley). Sources differ on how many members of her crew survived, claiming both that all 14 did and that four perished and 10 survived. The survivors were stranded on Boon Island for 28 days before they were rescued.

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.

1711

October

7 October

List of shipwrecks: 7 October 1711

Ship	State	Description
HMS Feversham	Royal Navy	The fifth rate was wrecked on Scaterie Island, Nova Scotia, with the loss of 102 lives.

November

23 November

List of shipwrecks: 23 November 1711

Ship	State	Description
Bretagne	Kingdom of France	The Saint Malo privateer frigate hit rocks, while leaving her home port, and broke up beneath the Fort de la Latte. The crew survived.

Unknown date

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.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1711

Ship	State	Description
HMS Edgar	Royal Navy	The third-rate ship of the line was destroyed by fire at Spithead, Hampshire.

1712

March

16 March

List of shipwrecks: 16 March 1712

Ship	State	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.

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.

August

24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1712

Ship	State	Description
Unnamed	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Lake Ladoga.

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.

July

11 July

List of shipwrecks: 11 July 1713

Ship	State	Description
Sviatoy Antoniy	Imperial Russian Navy	Great Northern War: The ship ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.
Riga	Imperial Russian Navy	Great Northern War: The Riga-class ship of the line ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She was refloated.
Sviatoi Georgii	Imperial Russian Navy	Great Northern War: The ship ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy Squadron. She was refloated.
Vyborg	Imperial Russian Navy	Great Northern War: The Riga-class ship of the line ran aground west of Hogland whilst pursuing a Royal Swedish Navy squadron. She started to break up the next day and was burnt to prevent capture by the Swedes.

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.

July

27 July

List of shipwrecks: 27 July 1714

Ship	State	Description
Unnamed	Imperial Russian Navy	Russo-Swedish War: The galley ran aground off the Hanko Peninsula and was captured by the Swedes.

October

10 October

List of shipwrecks: 10 October 1714

Ship	State	Description
Adelaide	Kingdom of France	A hurricane wrecked the ship as she was on her way to Havana after she had delivered a cargo of slaves from West Africa to Saint Domingue.

November

2 November

List of shipwrecks: 2 November 1714

Ship	State	Description
Narva	Imperial Russian Navy	The Sviataia Ekaterina-class ship of the line ran aground at Petershoff. She was refloated on 9 November.

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.

1715

June

27 June

List of shipwrecks: 27 June 1715

Ship	State	Description
Narva	Imperial Russian Navy	The Sviataya Ekaterina-class ship of the line was struck by lightning, exploded and sank at Cronstadt with the loss of 389 of her 400 crew. The wreck was refloated after the Treaty of Nystad had been signed in 1721, as it was hindering navigation.

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.
Capitana	Spain	The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
El Ciervo	Spain	The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
Maria Galante	Spain	The balandrita was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion	Spain	The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
Nuestra Señora de las Nieves	Spain	The patache was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
San Miguel	Spanish Navy	The frigate was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
Refuerzo	Spain	The ship was wrecked off the coast of Spanish Florida in a hurricane.
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.

1716

August

List of shipwrecks: Unknown August 1716

Ship	State	Description
Unknown	Massachusetts Bay	The new fishing schooner sank in mid August off Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Lost with all hands.

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.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in September 1716

Ship	State	Description
Royal Transport	Imperial Russian Navy	Great Northern War: The Imperial Yacht was driven ashore near Gothenburg, Sweden. Twenty-one crew were taken prisoner by the Swedes.

October

20 October

List of shipwrecks: 20 October 1716

Ship	State	Description
Liset	Imperial Russian Navy	The shnyava was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Denmark. Her crew were rescued.

November

9 November

List of shipwrecks: 9 November 1716

Ship	State	Description
Ekaterina	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Fortuna	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Reval. Her crew were rescued.
Gavriil	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Michael	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Pearl	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Poltava	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Raphael	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Selafail	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was severely damaged in a storm at Reval.
Sviatoy Anthoniy	Imperial Russian Navy	The transport ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Reval with the loss of all hands.

10 November

List of shipwrecks: 10 November 1716

Ship	State	Description
HMS Auguste	Royal Navy	The Man-of-war was driven ashore and wrecked on Læsø, Denmark. Most of her crew survived.

December

1 December

List of shipwrecks: 1 December 1716

Ship	State	Description
Princessa	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was wrecked on "Remus Island". Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jutland to Holland.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1716

Ship	State	Description
Lusitch	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship was presumed to have foundered in the Baltic Sea with the loss of all hands.

1717

April

26 April

List of shipwrecks: 26 April 1717

Ship	State	Description
Whydah Gally	"Black Sam" Bellamy	The 100-foot (30 m) full-rigged galley — a pirate ship — grounded during a storm off a portion of Eastham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America, that later became Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 500 yards (460 m) off what later became known as Marconi Beach. She capsized and was wrecked with the loss of all but two of her crew. Her wreck settled in 30 feet (9.1 m) of water.

December

25 December

List of shipwrecks: 25 December 1717

Ship	State	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

June

10 June

List of shipwrecks: May 1718

Ship	State	Description
Queen Anne's Revenge	Blackbeard	The frigate ran aground in Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, British America
Adventure	Blackbeard	The sloop 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, on the outward leg of her maiden voyage to Madras.

Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in March 1719

Ship	State	Description
HMS Crown	Royal Navy	The fourth rate frigate was wrecked.

October

1 October

List of shipwrecks: 1 October 1719

Ship	State	Description
London	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Tolbukhovina Spit, off Kotlin Island.
Portsmouth	Imperial Russian Navy	The ship ran aground and was wrecked on the Tolbukhovina Spit.

Notes

1. Until 1752, in Great Britain and its possessions, 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. In most of Europe (though not Russia or Greece) and Latin America, 24 March 1711 was followed by 25 March 1711, and 31 December 1711 was followed by 1 January 1712.

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