List of shipwrecks in 1770

The List of shipwrecks in 1770 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1770.

January

Leimuiden ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman, a frigate, foundered off Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands. Most of her 329 crew survived.^[1]

Ann & Dorothy ( British America): The ship was wrecked north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[2]^[3]
HMS Swift ( Royal Navy): The Swift-class ship-sloop ran aground at Puerto Desire, Viceroyalty of Peru and sank. Eighty-eight crew survived.^[4]

Charming Polly ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, British America. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from London to Oracock, North Carolina.^[5]
Lillie ( Great Britain): The snow was driven ashore and wrecked 10 nautical miles (19 km) north of Cape Hatteras. Her crew survived. She was on a voyage from Glasgow, Renfrewshire to Oracock.^[5]
Polly (flag unknown): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) south of Cape Hatteras. She was on a voyage from the West Indies to North Carolina.^[5]

Planters Welvard ( Dutch Republic): The West Indiaman was driven ashore at Porthcawl Point, Glamorgan, Great Britain with the loss of fifteen lives. She was on a voyage from Suriname to a Dutch port.^[6]

HMS Endeavour ( Royal Navy): The barque ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef and was severely damaged. She was beached to enable temporary repairs to be made. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.

Oriflama ( Spain): The full-rigged ship foundered in the Pacific Ocean off the mouth of the Huenchullami River, Viceroyalty of Peru between 25 and 28 July after most of her crew had been killed by disease.

Industry ( British America): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked at Kennebunk, Maine in the autumn of 1770 with the loss of all hands. She was on her maiden voyage.^[7]

↑ "Leimuiden (+1770)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ "(untitled)". The Pennsylvania Gazette. 29 March 1770.
↑ "PHILADELPHIA, April 2.". The Virginia Gazette. 2 April 1770.
↑ "HMS Swift 1770 Shipwreck Exhibition". National Anthropology Institue of Argentina and Museo Brozoski Provincial Museum. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "PHILADELPHIA, May 24.". The Philadelphia Gazette.
↑ Tovey, Ron. "A Chronology of Bristol Channel Shipwrecks". Swansea Docks. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
↑ "1770 wreck of the Industry at Kennebunk Beach". Some Old News. 27 May 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2015.