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The List of shipwrecks in 1744 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1744.


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January

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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in January 1744
Ship State Description
Colinie van Surinam  Dutch Republic The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain.[1]

February

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5 February

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List of shipwrecks: 5 February 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Looe Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy War of Jenkins' Ear: The fifth rate ran aground on a reef, later to be known as Looe Key, off the coast of Spanish Florida. Her 276 crew survived. She was later set afire to prevent her capture by the Spanish

8 February

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List of shipwrecks: 8 February 1744
Ship State Description
Prinsesse Louise  Denmark The Danish Asiatic Company-ship ran aground 1 mile south of Malé in the Maldives on outbound journey to the Malabar Coast.

19 survivors reached the Coromandel Coast and 5 of them returned to Copenhagen.[2]

11 February

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List of shipwrecks: 11 February 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Anne Galley  Royal Navy War of the Austrian Succession, Battle of Toulon: The fire ship was scuttled off Toulon, France, with the loss of all hands.

22 February

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List of shipwrecks: 22 February 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Anne Galley Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy
HMS Anne Galley.

War of the Austrian Succession, Battle of Toulon: The fireship was set afire by Hércules ( Spanish Navy). She exploded and sank.

Poder  Spanish Navy War of the Austrian Succession, Battle of Toulon: The fourth rate was scuttled following the battle due to damage sustained.

April

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List of shipwrecks: April 1744
Ship State Description
Two Brothers  Ireland The ship was wrecked near Montserrat. She was on a voyage from Cork to Montserrat.[3]

July

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8 July

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List of shipwrecks: 8 July 1744
Ship State Description
Somerset  Great Britain The privateer, a snow, capsized and sank in the Bristol Channel. Eleven of the 97 people on board survived.[4][failed verification]

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List of shipwrecks: July 1744
Ship State Description
Fortune  Great Britain The ship foundered in the English Channel off Beachy Head, Sussex, before 10 July. Her captain was the only survivor. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Rotterdam, South Holland, Dutch Republic.[5][failed verification]

August

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17 August

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List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1744
Ship State Description
Saint-Géran  France The ship was wrecked off Réunion with the loss of 51 of the 60 people on board. She was on a voyage from Lorient to Réunion.[6]

29 August

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List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1744
Ship State Description
Happy  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore in Lough Swilly, Ireland. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Lancaster, Lancashire.[7]
Indian Queen  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore in Lough Swilly. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Lancaster.[7]

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List of shipwrecks: August 1744
Ship State Description
Barbadoes Packet  Great Britain The ship was lost near Holyhead, Anglesey. She was on a voyage from Hale to Liverpool, Lancashire.[8]
Curton  Great Britain The galley was driven ashore and wrecked near Rye, Sussex, before 31 August. She was on a voyage from London to Jamaica.[9][8]
Duke  Great Britain The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, before 21 August. she was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.[10]
Olonets  Imperial Russian Navy The galiot ran aground on a reef 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Stockholm, Sweden and sank She was on a voyage from Cronstadt to Stockholm.[11] >

September

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5 September

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List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1744
Ship State Description
Amoretta  Great Britain The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Biddiford, Devon. She was on a voyage from Virginia, British America, to Bristol, Gloucestershire.[12]

16 September

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List of shipwrecks: 16 September 1744
Ship State Description
Jamaica Merchant  Great Britain The ship foundered in Tory Bay, County Donegal, Ireland, with the loss of all but her captain. She was on a voyage from Barbados to Liverpool, Lancashire.[13]

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List of shipwrecks: September 1744
Ship State Description
Benjamin  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore at Spurn Point, Yorkshire, before 28 September. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, to London.[14]
Gertrude Hamburg The ship was driven ashore in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, before 18 September. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Venice.[15]
John  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore near Gottenburg, Sweden, before 18 September. She was on a voyage from London to Gottenburg[15]
Kitty  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Gottenburg before 18 September. She was on a voyage from London to Gottenburg.[15]
Prosperous  Great Britain The ship ran aground off Weymouth, Dorset, before 25 September and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Chichester, Sussex, to Falmouth, Cornwall.[13]
St John  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore on the coast of Portugal by a Spanish privateer. She was on a voyage from London to Oporto, Portugal,[16]

October

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5 October

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List of shipwrecks: 5 October 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Victory Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy
HMS Victory.

The first rate ship of the line foundered between the Channel Islands and the French coast (49°52′30″N 3°33′18″W / 49.87500°N 3.55500°W / 49.87500; -3.55500) with the loss of her crew of about 1,100 men.

21 October

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List of shipwrecks: 21 October 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Colchester Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy The fourth rate ship of the line ran aground on the Kentish Knock, in the North Sea and was scuttled. There were about 40 casualties from her crew of about 400.

26 October

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List of shipwrecks: 26 October 1744
Ship State Description
Wackender Boeye  Dutch Republic The ship was lost on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Zierikzee to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France.[17]
Unidentified  Dutch Republic The dogger was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.[1]

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List of shipwrecks: October 1744
Ship State Description
Endeavour  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore near King's Lynn, Norfolk, before 16 October. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham, to King's Lynn.[18]
Kingston  Great Britain The ship foundered in the North Sea off Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, before 5 October.[12]
New Foster  Great Britain The ship was lost on the coast of the Isle of Man. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, to an African port.[19]

November

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List of shipwrecks: November 1744
Ship State Description
Robert and John  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore at Liverpool, Lancashire, before 13 November. She was on a voyage from Virginia, British America, to Liverpool.[20]

December

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3 December

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List of shipwrecks: 3 December 1744
Ship State Description
Polly  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Walmer Castle, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Cork, Ireland, and the Leeward Islands.[21]

19 December

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List of shipwrecks: 19 December 1744
Ship State Description
Prospect  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore near Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France with the loss of most of her crew.[22]

24 December

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List of shipwrecks: 24 December 1744
Ship State Description
HMS Swallow  Royal Navy The 10-gun sloop ran aground and was wrecked on the Bahama Banks near the Abaco Islands while attempting to reach New Providence.

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List of shipwrecks: December 1744
Ship State Description
Chatham  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Sussex before 28 December. She was on a voyage from Piscataway, Maryland, British America, to London.[23]
Eaton  Great Britain The frigate was driven ashore in the River Thames before 14 December. She was on a voyage from London to Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.[24]
Elizabeth  Great Britain The ship foundered in The Downs before 18 December. She was on a voyage from Stockholm, Sweden, to Portsmouth, Hampshire.[25]
Elizabeth  Great Britain The ship foundered in The Downs before 21 December. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Gibraltar.[26]
Endeavour  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore in the River Thames before 14 December, She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.[24]
James  Great Britain The ship was lost on the Spaniard Sandbank, in the Thames Estuary before 14 December. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.[24]
Martha  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore on the French coast before 25 December.[22]
Providence Hamburg The ship was driven ashore at Margate, Kent, Great Britain, before 18 December.[25]
Ranger  Great Britain The ship foundered in the English Channel before 18 December with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland, British America, to Poole, Dorset.[25]
Sally  Great Britain The ship foundered in the English Channel before 7 December. She was on a voyage from Chichester, Sussex, to Oporto, Portugal.[21]

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List of shipwrecks: 1744
Ship State Description
Cape Fare Merchant  Great Britain The ship was lost off Antigua before 5 October. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire, to Antigua.[27]
Charming Molly  Great Britain The ship foundered three days into a voyage from Saint Kitts to London. Her crew were rescued by HMS Otter (Kingdom of Great Britain Royal Navy).[28]
Charming Molly  Great Britain The ship was lost near Helsingfors, Finland, before 16 November. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia, to London.[29]
Duc de Chartres  France The ship was lost in the Rio Grande before 3 July. She was on a voyage from Cádiz, Spain, to Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of Peru.[30]
Friendship  Great Britain The ship was lost off Bermuda before 20 November. She was on a voyage from Saint Kitts to Barbados.[31]
Hare  Great Britain The ship was lost off a port in South Carolina, British America, before 22 June. She was bound for London.[32]
Katherine & Elizabeth  Great Britain The ship was lost on the coast of Carolina, British America, before 25 May. She was on a voyage from Carolina to London.[33]
Neptune  Great Britain The ship was lost on a sandbank before 29 May. She was on a voyage from North Carolina, British America, to London.[34]
Norris  Great Britain The ship sprang a leak and foundered south of Jamaica before 28 December. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London.[23]
Northampton British East India Company The ship was last sighted 50 leagues (150 nautical miles (280 km)) west of Île Bourbon sometime after 20 July. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands.
Prosperity  Imperial Russian Navy The battleship ran aground at the mouth of the Northern Dvina. She was refloated and taken in to Archangelsk in a severely leaky condition.[11]
Providence  Great Britain The ship was driven ashore near Helsingfors, Finland, before 26 October.[35]
Tartar Kingdom of Great Britain British America The privateer capsized off the Virginia Capes before 24 August with the loss of most of her crew.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b Larn, Richard (1977). Goodwin Sands Shipwrecks. Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret: David & Charles. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-7153-7202-5.
  2. ^ Bichel, Johanne (1984). Maritim Kontakt 8 (PDF). pp. 5–48.
  3. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 282, No. 881.
  4. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 902. Lloyd's of London. 13 July 1744.
  5. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 901. Lloyd's of London. 10 July 1744.
  6. ^ "Paul and Virginia". Morning Post. No. 32576. London. 24 November 1876. p. 5.
  7. ^ a b Lloyd 1744, p. 356, No. 920.
  8. ^ a b Lloyd 1744, p. 350, No. 917.
  9. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 348, No. 916.
  10. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 342, No. 913.
  11. ^ a b Chernyshev, Alexander Alekseevich (2012). Погибли без боя. Катастрофы русских кораблей XVIII–XX вв [They died without a fight. Catastrophes of Russian ships of the XVIII-XX centuries] (in Russian). Veche.
  12. ^ a b Lloyd 1744, p. 370, No. 927.
  13. ^ a b Lloyd 1744, p. 362, No. 923.
  14. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 364, No. 924.
  15. ^ a b c Lloyd 1744, p. 358, No. 921.
  16. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 360, No. 922.
  17. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 944. Lloyd's of London. 30 October 1744.
  18. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 374, No. 929.
  19. ^ Lloyd 1744, p. 386, No. 935.
  20. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 937. Lloyd's of London. 13 November 1744.
  21. ^ a b "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 944. Lloyd's of London. 7 December 1744.
  22. ^ a b "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 949. Lloyd's of London. 25 December 1744.
  23. ^ a b "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 950. Lloyd's of London. 28 December 1744.
  24. ^ a b c "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 946. Lloyd's of London. 14 December 1744.
  25. ^ a b c "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 947. Lloyd's of London. 18 December 1744.
  26. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 948. Lloyd's of London. 21 December 1744.
  27. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 927. Lloyd's of London. 5 October 1744.
  28. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 920. Lloyd's of London. 14 September 1744.
  29. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 38. Lloyd's of London. 16 November 1744.
  30. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 899. Lloyd's of London. 3 July 1744.
  31. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 941. Lloyd's of London. 20 November 1744.
  32. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 896. Lloyd's of London. 22 June 1744.
  33. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 888. Lloyd's of London. 25 May 1744.
  34. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 889. Lloyd's of London. 29 May 1744.
  35. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 932. Lloyd's of London. 26 October 1744.
  36. ^ "SHIP NEWS". Lloyd's List. No. 914. Lloyd's of London. 24 August 1744.

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