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The List of shipwrecks in the 1730s includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during the 1730s.
1730
March
(Dates from 1 January to 24 March 1730 under the calendar used now were considered 1729 "old style" by the British at the time. Within the British Empire, the start of the New Year was on 25 March though it was on 1 January in other European nations. In addition, the British still used the Julian calendar, which was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar by 1730; thus, 3 March 1730 "new style" would have been 18 February 1729 "old style").
During her voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic, the ship stranded on 27 September 1732 at Vlieland, during the night she foundered at a sandbank where she broke apart due to the storm in the afternoon. 100 people drowned of the 118 people onboard.[10]
The aviso ran aground in a hurricane off Key Largo, Spanish Florida. Survivors were rescued by El Africa (Spain). Delores was refloated some months later.[12]
The ship ran aground in a hurricane off Upper Matecumbe Key. All on board were rescued. Proving not to be refloatable, she was subsequently set afire and destroyed.[19]
The East Indiaman foundered off Middelburg with the loss of all 256 people on board. She was on a voyage from Rammekens to the Netherlands East Indies.[27][28]
The 145 foot long merchant ship sank during a storm at Cape of Good Hope during her return voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic.[34] 11 of the 98 crew were killed.[33]
The 145 foot long “hekboot” (a fluyt variant) sank at Cape of Good Hope (where she arrived on 29 April 1737) during her return voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic.[35] 59 of the 111 crew were killed.[33]
The 130 foot long fluyt sank during a storm at Cape of Good Hope. The skipper and some crew members were rescued. 10 of the 81 crew were killed.[33][36]
The 145 foot long merchant ship sank during a storm at Cape of Good Hope during her return voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic.[37] 12 of the 105 crew were killed.[33]
The 145 foot long merchant ship sank during a storm at Cape of Good Hope during her return voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic.[40] 2 of the 103 crew were killed.[33]
The 130 foot long merchant ship sank during a storm at Cape of Good Hope during her return voyage from Batavia, Dutch East Indies to the Dutch Republic.[41] 19 of the 83 crew were killed.[33]
The slave ship was travelling from Elmina, Ghana to Surinam, carrying around 700 enslaved men, women and children. The vessel capsized slowly in a storm at the mouth of the Maroni and before leaving the vessel, the crew deliberately nailed shut the hatches on the deck so that the slaves imprisoned below could not escape; drowning or suffocating between 664 and 702 people.[44]
The East Indiaman sprang a leak in the Indian Ocean and was abandoned by 82 of her 98 crew, who were rescued by Winchester (British East India Company). Sussex was subsequently beached on Bassas da India where she was wrecked with the loss of eleven of the sixteen crew on board. Only one of the five survivors reached Madagascar in the ship's boat.[49]
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