List of shipwrecks in the 1740s

The List of shipwrecks in the 1740s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1740s.

1740

January

Rooswijk ( Dutch East India Company)

The East Indiaman was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain with the loss of all hands.

1741

April

24 April

• Anna (Great Britain): George Anson's voyage around the world: The pink was damaged in a storm and put into a cove that was later to be called Bahía Anna Pink, after the ship. After two months she was repaired sufficiently to sail to the Juan Fernández Islands, where she was broken up in August 1741.

May

14 May

HMS Wager.

• HMS Wager ( Royal Navy): George Anson's voyage around the world / Wager Mutiny: The sixth rate was wrecked on rocks at 47°40′43″S 75°2′57″W, on what would later be called Wager Island, and was then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Of her crew of about 300, only ten were to return to England.

1742

January

11 January

• HMS Tyger (( Royal Navy):): The fourth rate frigate was wrecked in the Dry Tortugas.

September

2 September

• Westerbeek ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked on Suðuoroy, Faroe Islands with the loss of one of her 81 crew.

November

22 November===

• HMS Drake ( Royal Navy): The Drake-class sloop was wrecked at Gibraltar.

July

13 July

• Hollandia ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman struck the Gunner Rock, off Annet, Isles of Scilly, Great Britain and sank with the loss of all 276 crew.

September

18 September

• HMS Bridgewater ( Royal Navy): The sixth rate was wrecked in St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, British America.

1744

February

5 February

• HMS Looe ( Royal Navy): War of Jenkins' Ear: The fifth rate ran agroundd 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.

October

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5 October

• HMS VictoryZ1737 (6) ( Royal Navy): The first rate ship of the line foundered between the Channel Islands and the French coast (49°52′30″N 3°33′18″W) with the loss of her crew of about 900 men.

Unknown date

• 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.

1748

June

26 June

• HMS Fowey ( Royal Navy): The fifth rate struck a reef off the coast of Spanish Florida and was wrecked. Her crew were rescued by two British merchant ships and San Juan y Tadicos (Spain), which she had previously captured.

1749

January

26 January

• Amsterdam ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was wrecked at Bulverhithe, East Sussex, Great Britain whilst on her maiden voyage.