The List of shipwrecks in 1776 includes some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during 1776.
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Barbara | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She was on a voyage from Campveer, Dutch Republic to Leith, Lothian. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Prudence | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the Holderness coast, Yorkshire, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Dublin. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Bieune Stock Ohlsen | ![]() | The ship foundered in The Swin. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Cádiz, Spain and Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. [2] |
Macklane | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Pakefield, Suffolk. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland and Grenada. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Barnard's Goodwill | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. [2] |
Endeavour | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth. She was on a voyage from Dover, Kent to Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. [2] |
Johanna Juliana | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Terschelling, Dutch Republic. She was on a voyage from Stettin to London, Great Britain. [3] |
Hopewell | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Great Yarmouth. [2] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Three Brothers | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Mediterranean Sea off Menorca. She was on a voyage from Sicily to Lisbon, Portugal. [4] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Thames | ![]() | The ship capsized at Plymouth, Devon and was severely damaged. [5] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Benn | ![]() | The ship ran aground and was wrecked at Ramsgate, Kent. [6] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Johan Ernst | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Dantzick to Cork, Ireland. [7] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Bacchus | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Tor Bay. She was on a voyage from Oporto, Portugal to Guernsey, Channel Islands. [7] |
Europa | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in Tor Bay. She was on a voyage from Oporto to Guernsey. [7] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Allice | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to British America and back. [8] |
Anna Maria | ![]() | The ship caught fire at the Tower of London and sank in the River Thames. She was on a voyage from London to Cork, Ireland. [2] |
Ann & Dorothy | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the French coast with the loss of all hands. [1] |
Bridlington | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the Humber. [2] |
Charles | ![]() | The ship departed from Liverpool for Africa. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [9] |
Duke of Richmond | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Norway with the loss of two of her crew. [10] |
Flora | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Dunkerque. She was on a voyage from Dunkerque to the West Indies. [11] |
Friendship | ![]() | The ship was lost in Teignmouth Bay. She was on a voyage from London to Bristol. [12] |
Hedwick | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Calais, France. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Leith, Lothian. [1] |
King George | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Messina, Sicily. [13] |
Mary | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked. She was on a voyage from Portsey, Hampshire to London. [1] |
Meredith | ![]() | The ship departed from Saint Augustine for London. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [14] |
Minerva | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Bridlington, Yorkshire with the loss of six of her crew. [1] |
Polly | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Gravelines, France. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from a Scottish port to Dunkerque, France. [2] |
Rosemay | ![]() | The ship was lost at Cádiz, Spain with the loss of five of her crew. She was on a voyage from Dantzick to Portsmouth, Hampshire and Barcelona, Spain. [7] |
Sirène | ![]() | The corvette was wrecked in the Ganges. [15] [16] |
Thames | ![]() | The ship capsized at Plymouth, Devon. [2] |
Three Brothers | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore whilst on a voyage from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire to London. [1] |
Two Brothers | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near King's Lynn, Norfolk, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Copenhagen, Denmark to Cork. [10] |
William | ![]() | The ship was driven onto rocks off the Isle of Man and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Alicante, Spain to Dublin. [17] |
William | ![]() | The ship was lost at Ferryland, Newfoundland, British America. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland to Dominica. [8] |
Ship | State | Description |
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St. Ives | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked 8 nautical miles (15 km) from Minehead, Somerset, Great Britain with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux to Saint-Malo. [18] |
Triumph | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to London. [13] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Boston | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of three of her crew. She was on a voyage from Grenada to Jamaica and London. [19] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Polly | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Senegal. [20] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Assumption | ![]() | The ship departed from Bilboa for Bristol, Gloucestershire, Great Britain. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [14] |
Brothers | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Cap La Hougue, France. She was on a voyage from London to Senegal. [7] She was later refloated. [8] |
Brothers | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in Carmarthen Bay. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux, France to Dort, Dutch Republic. [5] |
Charlotte | ![]() | The ship was wrecked at Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Bristol. [6] |
De Anthony & Jan Arnaud | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Padstow, Cornwall, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from St. Andero, Spain to Amsterdam. [3] |
Harbrough | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire at Hull, Yorkshire. [3] |
Hawke | ![]() | The yacht was lost in Dungarvan Bay. She was on a voyage from Bristol to Barcelona, Spain. [5] |
Hetty | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Padstow. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Faro, Portugal to London. [13] |
Jenny | ![]() | The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Dantzick to Liverpool, Lancashire. [13] |
Lyon | ![]() | The transport ship was lost in the Isles of Scilly. All on board were rescued. [5] |
Mary | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in tie Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Bristol to Pool, Dorset. [8] |
Molly | ![]() | The ship was wrecked at Hubberstone, Pembrokeshire, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Dublin to Havre de Grâce, France. [6] |
Morson | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Liverpool. She was on a voyage from Saint Kitts to Lancaster, Lancashire. [8] |
Rialto | ![]() | The ship was lost at Kinsale. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Bristol. [5] |
Ruby | ![]() | The ship was lost in Ballycotton Bay. She was on a voyage from Bristol to London. [5] |
St. Nicholas | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore near Fowey, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from La Rochelle to Rouen. [5] |
Thomas | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Isles of Scilly. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux to Hamburg. [18] |
William & Mary | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the French coast with the loss of all but one of her crew. [5] |
Young Gotfried | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Heligoland. She was on a voyage from Limerick, Ireland to Bremen. [7] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Neptune | ![]() | The brig foundered in the Atlantic Ocean having sprang a leak the day before. Her crew were rescued by Peggy (![]() |
Roman Eagle | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the east coast of Menorca with the loss of at least eleven lives. [22] |
Ship | State | Description |
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William & Ann | ![]() | The ship was run down and sunk in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by Patty (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Hibernia | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire in the River Thames. [4] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Blue Mountain Valley | ![]() | American Revolution: The captured British supply ship was burned in a British Raid on Elizabethtown Point. [25] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Catherina | ![]() | The ship was lost at Lisbon, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Kinsale, County Cork to Lisbon. [26] |
Industrious Bee | ![]() | The ship was lost at Figueira da Foz, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland, British America to Figueria da Foz. [26] |
Polly | ![]() | The ship was lost near Barrowhead, Scotland. She was on a voyage from Barbadoes to Ireland and Liverpool, Lancashire. [27] |
Prince William | ![]() | The ship was lost off Milford, Pembrokeshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Dublin, Ireland. [26] |
Shaw | ![]() | The ship was lost on the Arklow Banks, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow. She was on a voyage from Rotterdam, Dutch Republic to Newry, County Antrim. [28] |
Swift | ![]() | The ship was destroyed by fire in the English Channel off Portland, Dorset with the loss of nine lives. She was on a voyage from London to Quebec. [29] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Baltimore | ![]() | The ship departed from London for Africa. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [30] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Union | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on "Burkholm". She was on a voyage from Hamburg to Wismar. [31] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Ann and Elizabeth | ![]() | The whaler was lost on "Sindey Island" with the loss of five of her crew. [19] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Vrouwe Maria | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Great Britain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam to Bilboa, Spain. [31] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Brotherly Love | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Memel, Prussia. [32] |
Coalition | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the River Mersey. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to London. [27] |
Endeavour | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Margate, Kent. [24] |
Houghton | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Baltic Sea off Riga, Russia. [19] |
John | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Whitby, Yorkshire to Memel. [32] |
Mermaid | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on Muhu, Russia. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Wismar. [31] |
Pike | ![]() | The ship sank in the River Suir at Waterford, Ireland. She was on a voyage from Pool, Dorset to Waterford and Newfoundland, British America. [24] |
Ship | State | Description |
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John & Isabella | ![]() | The ship sprang a leak and foundered in the English Channel off The Lizard, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from London to Dublin, Kingdom of Ireland. [33] |
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Aldborough | ![]() | The sixth rate was driven ashore and wrecked at Plymouth, Devon. [34] |
Nossa Senhora da Conceição | ![]() | The ship departed from Goa, India on this date. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [35] |
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Franklin | ![]() | American Revolution: The schooner was run aground during a battle with Royal Navy ships near Nantasket, Massachusetts. [36] |
St James | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The ship was captured by the privateer Cornet (![]() ![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Britannia | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the Isle of Wight. [14] |
Duke of Cumberland | ![]() | The packet boat foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of all but one of her crew. She was on a voyage from Virginia, British America to Falmouth, Cornwall. [38] |
Hector | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the West Hoyle Bank, in Liverpool Bay and was severely damaged. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Africa. [39] |
Hester | ![]() | The ship was lost at Killala, County Cork. She was on a voyage from Saint Kitts to Killala. [40] |
Present Success | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on Saltholm, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to North Shields, County Durham. [14] |
Syren | ![]() | The whaler was lost in the Shetland Islands with the loss of all hands. [33] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Betsey | ![]() | The sloop was lost on the Sunk Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Weymouth, Dorset. [41] |
Ship | State | Description |
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HMS Actaeon | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The sixth rate frigate was lost in action off Fort Sullivan, South Carolina, United States on this date. |
Nancy | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet: The brig ran aground near Cape May and was consequently destroyed by gunpowder to prevent capture by the British. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Flying Mercury | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from Dantzick to Sheerness and Chatham, Kent, Great Britain. [42] |
Henry | ![]() | The ship was lost off King's Lynn, Norfolk. [41] |
St Anthony | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Sligo. She was on a voyage from Ballyshannon, County Donegal to Norway. [43] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown | ![]() | American Revolutionary War:The armed sloop is fired on and sunk at Elizabethtown Point. [44] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Seaflower | ![]() | The sloop foundered in the Bristol Channel off Pwlldu Bay, Glamorgan with some loss of life. [45] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Lady Stanley | ![]() | American Revolution: The sloop, a possible privateer, was burned at Gwynn's Island, or was captured. [46] |
Lively | ![]() | American Revolution: The schooner, a possible privateer, was scuttled by burning in a creek on Gwynn's Island to prevent capture. [47] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Diogess | ![]() | The ship was holed by her anchor and sank in the River Thames. She was on a voyage from Antigua to London. [48] |
Drontheim | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, Kingdom of Great Britain. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux, France to Drontheim. [49] |
Friends Adventure | ![]() | The ship was lost at Charles Town, South Carolina, United States. [50] |
Prince of Piedmont | ![]() | The ship was lost at Charles Town. [50] |
Unknown | ![]() | American Revolution: The sloop was burned at Smith's Island in the Potomac River in mid July. [51] |
Unknown | ![]() | American Revolution: The craft was burned at Smith's Island in the Potomac River in mid July. [52] |
Violet | ![]() | African slave trade: The ship departed from Africa with 420 slaves on board. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all on board. [9] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Ann | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was on a voyage from London to Cork, Ireland. [53] |
Deptford | ![]() | The ship wax lost in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Copenhagen, Denmark and Memel, Prussia. [54] |
Jane | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Kattegat. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Dublin, Ireland. [54] |
King's Fisher | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Gulf of Lyons. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Genoa to Valencia, Spain. [54] |
Lisbon Paquet | ![]() | The ship was lost on a sandbank in the Baltic Sea. [54] |
Seanymph | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Hull, Yorkshire. [55] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Betsey | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Spain. [56] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Betsey | ![]() | The ship foundered at Basseterre, Saint Kitts. [57] |
Fox | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Bluff Point, Saint Kitts. [57] |
Johanna | ![]() | The ship foundered at Basseterre. [57] |
Peggy | ![]() | The ship foundered at Basseterre. [57] |
Regicobus | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Basseterre. [57] |
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HMS Savage | ![]() | The brig-sloop was wrecked on Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, British America with the loss of two of her crew. [58] [59] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Aurora | ![]() | The brigantine was wrecked at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. All on board survived. [60] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Endeavour | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the coast of Labrador, British America. [61] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Alexander | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Londonderry, Kingdom of Ireland. [62] |
Charles | ![]() | The ship was lost near Selsea, Sussex, Great Britain. She was on a voyage from La Rochelle to Dunkerque. [55] |
Concordia | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to "Sunderburgh". [63] |
Frederica Maria | ![]() | The hoy was wrecked on Anholt, Denmark. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux, France to Saint Petersburg. [64] |
Maryann | ![]() | The ship was lost on the Bowbell Sand. She was on a voyage from London to Barbadoes. [64] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Hero | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged at Liverpool, Lancashire. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Africa. [65] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Turtle | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The submersible was lost when the sloop she was aboard was sunk by gunfire by the frigates HMS Phoenix, HMS Roebuck, and HMS Tartar (all ![]() |
Unidentified sloop | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The small sloop was sunk by gunfire by the frigates HMS Phoenix, HMS Roebuck, and HMS Tartar (all ![]() |
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USS Philadelphia | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: The 54-foot (16 m) gundalow was sunk in the Valcour Strait in Lake Champlain by a Royal Navy ship. The wreck was raised in 1935 and preserved at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. [67] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Belieze | ![]() | The cutter was lost on the coast of Florida, British America. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to London. [68] |
USS Providence | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: The gundalow was scuttled in Lake Champlain at Schuyler Island following damage sustained in battle. |
USS Spitfire | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: Abandoned by her crew, the 54-foot (16 m) gundalow sank in Lake Champlain off Schuyler Island due to damage sustained in battle. [69] |
Ship | State | Description |
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USS Boston | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: The gundalow was set afire and scuttled in Buttonmold Bay on Lake Champlain to prevent capture by the British. |
USS Congress | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: The row galley was beached and set afire on Lake Champlain at Crown Point, New York, following damage sustained in battle. |
USS New Haven | ![]() | American Revolutionary War, Battle of Valcour Island: The gundalow was beached, set afire and destroyed in Ferris's Bay on Lake Champlain. |
Ship | State | Description |
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No. 53 | ![]() | The pole ran aground in the Strait of Kerch and sank. She was on a voyage from Yenikale to Petrovskoye. She broke up in a storm on 27 October. [70] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Allerton | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Memel, Prussia. [71] She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Memel. [57] |
Concord | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Memel. [71] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Friends Good Hope | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Læsø, Denmark. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk to Königsburg, Prussia. [72] |
Lenox | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on the coast of Jutland. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Lisbon, Portugal [72] |
Mary & Harriot | ![]() | The ship was lost near Dantzick. Her crew were rescued. [71] |
Polly | ![]() | The ship departed from Liverpool, Lancashire for Dublin, Ireland. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. [73] |
Triton | ![]() | The ship was lost at Peniche, Portugal. She was on a voyage from Gothenburg, Sweden to Marseille [74] |
Turtle | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The submersible was sunk along with her tender vessel near Fort Lee, New Jersey after 5 October. |
Ship | State | Description |
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Aurora | ![]() | American Revolution: The supply brig ran aground, or foundered in shallow water, near Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. Ship and crew captured. [75] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Eleanor | ![]() | The ship was lost on the Niden. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Londonderry. [76] |
Ship | State | Description |
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L'Esprit | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Sandhammer. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg, Russia to Brest. [76] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Beckey or "Lady Washington" | ![]() | The brigantine stranded on Cape Henry. [77] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Friends Goodwill | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore 7 nautical miles (13 km) north west of Caernarfon. She was on a voyage from Cork, Ireland to Maryport, Cumberland. [78] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Joanna | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Portishead, Somerset. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to Bristol, Gloucestershire. [78] |
Ship | State | Description |
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St Anthony | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore 2 leagues (6 nautical miles (11 km)) from Étaples, France. She was on a voyage from Bilboa to London, Great Britain. [78] |
Yongst Pieter | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked on Texel. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam to Lisbon, Portugal. [79] |
Zee Nimpf | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on Texel. She was on a voyage from Amsterdam to Lisbon. [79] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Unknown | ![]() | American Revolutionary War:The transport, that had run aground in the Strait of Canso on an unknown date, was burned by privateer "Alfred" (![]() |
Ship | State | Description |
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Hope | ![]() | The ship was sighted off Dunkerque, France. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. She was on a voyage from Middelburg, Dutch Republic to Pool, Dorset and London. [68] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Blessing | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Hoylake, Cheshire. She was on a voyage from Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany to Chester, Cheshire. [78] |
Catharina | flag unknown | The ship foundered off the coast o Norway. She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire, Great Britain to "Sunderburgh". [82] |
Charles Sharp | ![]() | The ship capsized at Gosport, Hampshire. [76] |
Dove | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Kentish Well. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Rouen, France. [76] |
Gustaff | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Sweden to Liverpool. [79] |
Hope | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore between Padstow and St. Ives, Cornwall. She was on a voyage from Dublin, Ireland to Cowes, Isle of Wight. [76] |
Hope | ![]() | The ship foundered in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne to Pool, Dorset. [76] |
Loyal Jane | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Gravelines, France. She was on a voyage from London to Dunkerque, France. [79] |
Mary | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Whitstable, Kent. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to London. [83] |
New Content | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore on the Dutch coast. She was on a voyage from L'Orient, France to Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. [78] |
Patsey | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Liverpool. [78] |
Triton | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Hoylake. She was on a voyage from Zant to Liverpool. [78] |
Ship | State | Description |
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True Endeavour | ![]() | The ship was lost on the French coast. She was on a voyage from Cork to Havre de Grâce, France. [84] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Neptune | ![]() | The ship struck a rock off Cobh, County Cork and was severely damaged. She put into Crookhaven. Neptune was on a voyage from Dublin to Antigua. [84] |
Ship | State | Description |
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Alice | ![]() | The ship was lost on the coast of Norway. She was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Dublin. [73] |
Dispatch | ![]() | The ship was lost near Galway, Ireland. She was on a voyage from Limerick, Ireland to London. [81] |
Eagle | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Irish Sea off Wicklow. She was on a voyage from Bourdeaux, France to Belfast, County Antrim. [86] |
Earl of Arundel | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Portsmouth, Hampshire to Aberdeen. [73] |
Lucy | ![]() | The ship ran aground on the North Bull. She was on a voyage from London to Dublin. [81] |
Marner | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore at Pool, Dorset. She was on a voyage from Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland to Pool. [73] |
Nassau | ![]() | The transport ship was lost near Dungeness, Kent. She was on a voyage from New York, United States to London. [86] |
Plain-dealing | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore in the North Channel. She was on a voyage from Cork, Ireland to Falmouth, Cornwall. [87] [88] |
Sally | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Baltic Sea. She was on a voyage from Riga, Russia to Leith, Lothian. [73] |
Sophia Magdalena | ![]() | The ship was lost at "Pontaron". She was on a voyage from Dublin to Bourdeaux. [89] |
Ship | State | Description |
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African Queen | ![]() | The ship was lost at Bonny. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Bonny. [15] |
Amhurst | ![]() | The ship was lost at Pensacola, Florida, British America. [83] |
Ask-again | ![]() | The ship was lost in the Bay of Honduras. [29] |
Auckland | ![]() | The whaler was sunk by ice. [48] |
Bosphorus | ![]() | The victualling ship was lost in the Saint Lawrence River, British America. [89] |
Bryants | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Society (![]() |
Catharine | ![]() | The ship was lost at Senegal. [90] |
Ceres | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at the Cape of Good Hope. Her crew were rescued. [91] |
Diana | ![]() | The ship was lost on the Coromandel Coast, India. [92] |
Dolphin | ![]() | The ship was lost near Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was on a voyage from Newfoundland to Halifax. [93] |
Elizabeth | ![]() | The ship was lost near Kingston, Jamaica with the loss of a crew member. She was on a voyage from Madeira to Jamaica. [94] |
Euphrates | ![]() | The transport ship foundered off Halifax. She was on a voyage from London to Halifax [87] |
Favourite | ![]() | The transport ship foundered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. [73] |
Fox | ![]() | African slave trade: The ship was wrecked at Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands before 5 July. [95] |
Friendship | ![]() | The ship was deliberately run ashore on the coast of "Alruzzo" after her crew mutinied and murdered her captain. She was on a voyage from Venice to Gallipoly, Ottoman Empire. [29] |
Friendship | ![]() | The transport ship was wrecked on Cape Cod, Massachusetts British America. [39] |
Gaper | ![]() | The transport ship sprang a leak and foundered. Her crew were rescued by Juffrow Johanna (![]() |
Generous Friends | ![]() | The transport ship was lost near New York, United States. [71] |
Hercules | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on the Northern Triangles. She was on a voyage from the Bay of Honduras to Dublin [97] |
Hunter | ![]() | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Dominica. She was on a voyage from the Leeward Islands to a British port. [98] |
Industry | ![]() | The ship was lost at Barbadoes. She was on a voyage from Marseille to Barbadoes. [99] |
Inverness | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The ship was burnt at a port in Georgia, British America. [100] |
Judiane | ![]() | The ship was lost whilst on a voyage from Bourdeaux to Bengal, India. [55] |
Leghorn | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The galley was captured by an American privateer. She was taken in to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she was burnt. [15] |
Lasseune | ![]() | The frigate foundered in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar with the loss of all but three of her crew. [91] |
Lion | ![]() | The ship was lost on Cabo Catoche, New Spain. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to London. [4] |
Marquess of Narbourn | ![]() | African slave trade: The ship was lost in the West Indies with the loss of a slave. [101] |
Mary & Jane | ![]() | The ship was lost at Dominica. [102] |
Minehead | ![]() | The ship was lost at Newfoundland. [73] |
Nelly | ![]() | American Revolutionary War: The ship was burnt at a port in Georgia. [19] |
Reconnoisand | ![]() | The ship was lost at Guadeloupe. [79] |
Sainte Marie | ![]() | The ship foundered. [103] |
Samuel | ![]() | The ship was lost on Cabo Catoche. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to New York, British America. [4] |
Roggebloom | ![]() | The transport ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. [104] |
St George | ![]() | The ship was wrecked on Red Island, in the Saint Lawrence River, British America. [71] |
Patty | ![]() | African slave trade: The ship was lost at Barbadoes. Her slaves were rescued. [92] |
Rebecca | ![]() | The ship was lost on the Colleradoes. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Jamaica to London. [48] |
St. Pierre | ![]() | The ship foundered. Her crew were rescued by St. Lawrence (![]() |
Thomas | ![]() | The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from London to Newfoundland. [93] |
Ulysses | ![]() | The ship was lost in Gambia. [93] |
Union | ![]() | The ship was wrecked at Durant's Island, Newfoundland. [105] |
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the military conflict of the American Revolution. American Patriot forces, organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington, defeated the British, leading to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, in which Great Britain recognized the independence and sovereignty of the United States. In the war, American Patriot forces eventually gained the support of France and Spain. The British and Loyalist forces also included Hessian soldiers from Germany. The conflict was fought in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean.
James Lovell was an educator and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1777 to 1782. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation.
The Pennsylvania Navy served as the naval force of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution and afterward, until the formation of the United States Navy. The navy's vessels served almost exclusively on the Delaware River, and were active in first defending the approaches to the city of Philadelphia during the British campaign that successfully occupied the city in 1777, and then preventing the Royal Navy from resupplying the occupying army.
The 84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) was a British regiment in the American Revolutionary War that was raised to defend present day Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada from the constant land and sea attacks by American Revolutionaries. The 84th Regiment was also involved in offensive action in the Thirteen Colonies; including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and what is now Maine, as well as raids upon Lake Champlain and the Mohawk Valley. The regiment consisted of 2,000 men in twenty companies. The 84th Regiment was raised from Scottish soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War and stayed in North America. As a result, the 84th Regiment had one of the oldest and most experienced officer corps of any regiment in North America. The Scottish Highland regiments were a key element of the British Army in the American Revolution. The 84th Regiment was clothed, armed and accoutred the same as the Black Watch, with Lieutenant Colonel Allan Maclean commanding the first battalion and Major General John Small of Strathardle commanding the second. The two Battalions operated independently of each other and saw little action together.
HMS Glasgow was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and took part in the American Revolutionary War. While under command of Capt. William Maltby she ran onto rocks at Cohasset, Massachusetts on 10 December 1774. Refloated and arrived in Boston on the 15th for repairs. Capt. Maltby was relieved of command at a Court Martial and replaced by Tyringham Howe some time between 8–15 January 1775. She is most famous for her encounter with the maiden voyage of the Continental Navy off Block Island on 6 April 1776. In that action, Glasgow engaged a squadron of 6 ships of the Continental Navy, managing to escape intact. Under the command of Tho. Pasley she captured sloop Juliana on 1 April, 1777. She captured sloop Unity on 2 April, 1777. She captured the sloop Betsy & Ann on 4 April. She captured sloop Volante on 5 April. She captured the brig Aurora on 10 April. She captured sloop Sally on 16 April. She captured American privateer sloop Henry on 19 April. She captured schooner Providence on 2 May. She captured schooner Nancy, probably in early May. She captured schooner Betsy 27 June. She captured brig Dolphin on unknown date. She captured sloop Rover on 24 July. She captured sloop Antonio on 21 July. She captured sloop Tryall on 25 July. She captured an unknown schooner on an unknown date. She captured schooner Gen. Thompson on an unknown date. She captured sloop Industry at an unknown date. She captured schooner Betsy & Ann on 4 November. She captured brig Sally on 8 December. She captured sloop Defiance and schooner Success on 9 December. She captured brig Minerva on 19 December. She captured schooner Happy Return on 22 December, 1777. On 28 February, 1778 she captured sloop Abigale 5 leagues east north east of the Tiburon Peninsula. On 9 March, 1778 she captured schooner Nancy 6 leagues off Mayaguana, Bahamas. She captured sloop Lucy on 12 March off the south east end of Mayaguana. She captured a prize in April, 1778, but it sprang a leak and sank.
HMS Winchelsea was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the sixth Royal Navy ship to bear this name. She was ordered during the Seven Years' War, but completed too late for that conflict. She cost £11,515-18-0d to build.
HMS Kingfisher was the second ship in the 14-gun Swan class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were built in the 1760s and 1770s. She was launched on 13 July 1770 at Chatham Dockyard, and completed there on 21 November 1770. She took part in the American Revolutionary War, enforcing the blockade of the Delaware Bay, and served in the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, near Cape May, New Jersey. While under the temporary command of Lieutenant Hugh Christian, she was burnt by her own crew to avoid capture on 7 August 1778 in Narragansett Bay during the Battle of Rhode Island.
HMS Blonde was a 32-gun fifth-rate warship of the British Royal Navy captured from the French in 1760. The ship wrecked on Blonde Rock with American prisoners on board. An American privateer captain, Daniel Adams, rescued the American prisoners and let the British go free. The captain's decision created an international stir. Upon returning to Boston, the American privateer was banished for letting go the British crew and he and his family became Loyalist refugees in Nova Scotia.
The Raid on Charlottetown of 17–18 November 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, involved two American privateers of the Marblehead Regiment attacking and pillaging Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, then known as St. John's Island. The raid motivated Nova Scotia Governor Francis Legge to declare martial law. Despite the raid's success, George Washington immediately freed senior colonial officials the privateers had brought back as prisoners to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Province of Nova Scotia was heavily involved in the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). At that time, Nova Scotia also included present-day New Brunswick until that colony was created in 1784. The Revolution had a significant impact on shaping Nova Scotia, "almost the 14th American Colony". At the beginning, there was ambivalence in Nova Scotia over whether the colony should join the Americans in the war against Britain. Largely as a result of American privateer raids on Nova Scotia villages, as the war continued, the population of Nova Scotia solidified their support for the British. Nova Scotians were also influenced to remain loyal to Britain by the presence of British military units, judicial prosecution by the Nova Scotia Governors and the efforts of Reverend Henry Alline.
North Carolina state troops in the American Revolution were the initial military units created in a transition from the Province of North Carolina under British rule to independence from British rule. Most units did not last long as such and were either transferred to the Continental Army or state militia instead.
Badger was launched in Liverpool in 1775. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. New owners renamed her Molly in 1778 and sailed her as a West Indian. In 1779 she repelled an American privateer in a sanguinary single ship action. Her owners renamed her Lydia. While trading with Tortola she captured one or two prizes. Lydia was herself captured in 1782.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the American Revolutionary War.