List of shipwrecks in 1787
The List of shipwrecks in 1787 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1787.
January
Unknown date
- Nathaniel and Mary (
Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Firth of Forth in early January.[1] - Providence ( Great Britain): The brigantine was wrecked at Vilassar de Mar, Catalonia, Spain. Her crew were rescued.[2]
March
4 March
- Mary-Ann ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked at Ramsey, Isle of Man.[3]
9 March
- Johanna Florentina ( Great Britain): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Stutton Gut, County Dublin, Ireland.[3]
Unknown date
- Alert ( Great Britain): The ship ran aground in the North Sea and was wrecked.[4]
- Barbara ( Great Britain): The ship was driven ashore near Cadiz, Spain and was wrecked.[4]
- Eagle ( Great Britain): The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Honduras to Liverpool, Lancashire.[4]
- Hope (
Denmark): The brig was driven ashore and wrecked at St. Lucar, Spain.[4] - Piltown ( Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Irish Sea whilst on a voyage from Waterford, Ireland to Bristol, Gloucestershire with the loss of all but two of her crew.[5]
- Rachael ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked with the loss of 23 lives.[6]
May
24 May
- Hartwell ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was wrecked at Boa Vista, Cape Verde Islands on her maiden voyage.
June
2 June
- Sisters ( Great Britain): The ship struck a rock and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off Land's End, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued by William and Mary ( Great Britain).[7]
July
6 July
- Asia ( Great Britain): The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Liverpool, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.[8]
August
30 August
- Aurora ( Great Britain): The brig was wrecked by a hurricane at Dominica.[9]
- Caton ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was wrecked by a hurricane in the Roseau River, Dominica.[9]
- Dolphin ( Great Britain): The brig was wrecked by a hurricane at Point Mitchell, Dominica.[9]
- Nancy ( Great Britain): The sloop was driven ashore and wrecked by a hurricane at Dominica.[9]
- Liberty ( Great Britain). The brig was wrecked by a hurricane at Louberre, Dominica.[9]
- Swallow ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was wrecked by a hurricane in Woodbridge Bay, Dominica.[9]
September
2 September
- Belsarius ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked at the mouth of the Belize River, British Honduras.[10]
- Betsey ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[11]
- Catherine ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked at the mouth of the Belize River.[10]
- Craft ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Dick ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[11]
- Ellen ( Great Britain): The sloop was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked in British Honduras.[10]
- Ellon ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Fortune ( Great Britain): The schooner capsized during a hurricane at the mouth of the Belize River and sank with the loss of all hands.[10]
- Galloway ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- George ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked on the Magna Kas Reef off British Honduras.[10]
- Harriot ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Honduras ( Great Britain): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[11]
- Hope ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore on a reef during a hurricane and wrecked of St George's Kay, British Honduras.[10]
- Jamaica ( Great Britain): The sloop was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked in British Honduras.[10]
- Joseph ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Little Ben ( Great Britain): The sloop foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all but one of her crew.[10][11]
- Mary ( Great Britain): The [[schooner foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[10][11]
- Mary and Betsey ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[11]
- Peggy ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Polly ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Sudden Death ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane.[11]
- Superbe ( Great Britain): The ship foundered off British Honduras during a hurricane with the loss of all hands.[11]
- Susanna ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven ashore during a hurricane and wrecked at the mouth of the Belize River.[10]
- Thomas ( Great Britain): The full-rigged ship was driven onto a reef and wrecked off St. Georges Kay during a hurricane.[10]
- HMS Triumvirate
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): The ship was wrecked in a hurricane at St. George's Caye, Belize.[12]
16 September
- Vrouw Tabitha (
Dutch Republic): The ship was wrecked near Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France.[13]
19 September
- Hector ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked at Plymouth Hoe, Devon. Her crew survived.[14]
October
Unknown date
- Freden (
Sweden): The ship ran aground on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued.[15] - Lowestoft ( Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea whilst on a voyage from London to Saint Petersburgh, Russia.[16]
November
6 November
- Asia ( Great Britain): The ship foundered whilst on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Liverpool, Lancashire. Her crew were rescued.[17]
December
8 December
- Mars (
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British East India Company): The East Indiaman was driven ashore and wrecked at Margate, Kent.[18]
22 December
- Hope (
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Ireland): The brigantine was driven ashore near Youghal, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Waterford to London, Great Britain.[19]
24 December
- Plymouth ( Great Britain): The brig was wrecked at St. Ives, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued.[20]
Unknown date
- Amphion ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked at Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France whilst on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden to Havre de Grace, Seine-Maritime, France.[11]
Unknown date
- Baltic Merchant ( Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Kattegat. Her crew were rescued.[21]
- Calonne (
France): The East Indiaman was wrecked at Setúbal, Portugal.[5] - Lord Shelburne ( Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.[22]
- Minerva ( Great Britain): The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean whilst on a voyage from North Carolina, United States to Dublin, Ireland. Her crew were rescued.[21]
- Recovery ( Great Britain): The ship was wrecked at Wexford, Ireland.[23]
References
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (632). 6 January 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Foreign Intelligence". Daily Universal Register (692). 6 March 1787. p. 2.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (700). 16 March 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (695). 9 March 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (701). 17 March 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Extract of a letter from Kirkwall, in Orkney, dated March 24, 1787". Daily Universal Register (727). 17 April 1787. p. 2.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (767). 7 June 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (809). 31 July 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "(untitled)". Daily Universal Register (886). 29 October 1787. p. 3.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 10.10 "Further Particulars of a most violent Hurricane, which happened in the Bay of Honduras, on the 2d of September last." The Times (London). Wednesday, 9 January 1788. (947), col A-C, p. 4.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 "Ship News" The Times (London). Wednesday, 2 January 1788. (941), col B, p. 4.
- ↑ "Shipwrecks in Belize". UMI Productions. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (855). 21 September 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Exeter, Sept.26.". Daily Universal Register (866). 5 October 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (875). 16 October 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Daily Universal Register (881). 23 October 1787. p. 3.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (915). 3 December 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Losses from the East India Company's ships (1763 - 1815)". Ocean Treasures. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- ↑ "Shipwreck List 18th Century". Cork Shipwrecks. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ↑ "Country News" The Times (London). Saturday, 5 January 1788. (944), col D, p. 3.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (771). 12 June 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "Ship News". Daily Universal Register (916). 7 December 1787. p. 4.
- ↑ "(untitled)". Daily Universal Register (917). 6 December 1787. p. 3.
| Ship events in 1787 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1782 | 1783 | 1784 | 1785 | 1786 | 1787 | 1788 | 1789 | 1790 | 1791 | 1792 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1782 | 1783 | 1784 | 1785 | 1786 | 1787 | 1788 | 1789 | 1790 | 1791 | 1792 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1782 | 1783 | 1784 | 1785 | 1786 | 1787 | 1788 | 1789 | 1790 | 1791 | 1792 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1782 | 1783 | 1784 | 1785 | 1786 | 1787 | 1788 | 1789 | 1790 | 1791 | 1792 |