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List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1769 Ship State Description Advice Great Britain: The ship caught fire in the North Sea off Hornsey, Yorkshire. She was beached on the Holderness coast but was destroyed. Advice was on a voyage from Memel, Prussia to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. [36] Jane Ireland: The ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...
List of shipwrecks: 27 February 1780 Ship State Description Good Intent: Danish Asiatic Company: The East Indiaman caught fire, exploded and sank at Copenhagen with the loss of many lives. [33] HMS Leviathan: Royal Navy: The storeship sprang a leak and foundered in the Atlantic Ocean.
The transport ship was destroyed by fire at Dartmouth, Devon. [16] Elizabeth Great Britain: The ship was lost near Uphill, Somerset with the loss of 30 lives. [17] Fortuna Great Britain: The ship was destroyed by fire whilst on a voyage from Gothenburg to Leith, Lothian, Great Britain. [18] Frederick Wilhelm Prussia: The ship was lost on the ...
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").
The schooner was destroyed by fire at Stromness, Orkney Islands. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Stromness. [1] Minna United Kingdom: The ship ran aground on the Gunfleet Sand, in the North Sea off the coast of Essex. She was on a voyage from Hamburg to London. She was refloated and taken in to Harwich, Essex in a leaky ...
The ship was destroyed by fire at Blackwall, Middlesex. [82] [113] Harvey Great Britain: The ship was wrecked at South Shields, County Durham. She was on a voyage from London to South Shields and Jamaica. [115] Hazard Great Britain: The ship struck the pier at Ramsgate, Kent and sank. [116] She was on a voyage from Stockholm to Marseille ...
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1859 Ship State Description Agnes Taylor United Kingdom: The ship was wrecked at Demerara, British Guiana. Her crew were rescued. [1] Audubon United States: The ship was destroyed by fire at Batavia, Netherlands East Indies. She was on a voyage from Singapore, Straits Settlements to New York. [2] Brutus United ...
British minelayer ran aground in the Kyle of Lochalsh, caught fire while being unloaded, destroyed by explosion. The Ramsey Royal Navy: 8 August 1915 An armed boarding steamer that was sunk by SMS Meteor northeast of Fair Isle