Azores's Shipwrecks
Archival Research by Paulo Monteiro
XVIIIth century
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Identification |
Year |
Date of Loss |
Island |
Place of loss |
Name |
Type |
Observations |
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31 |
1700 |
? |
Corvo |
? |
Providencia |
Spanish Galleon |
From Santo Domingo, there was a map of the wreck site |
|
150 |
1700 |
? |
S. Jorge |
Ponta do Galeão, Monteiros |
? |
Galleon from Brasil |
Anchor and ballast were visible |
|
261 |
1702 |
10-Dez |
Terceira |
Lost on sunken reef, Angra bay |
Fla Orbanne |
French frigate |
|
|
151 |
1706 |
28-Nov |
S. Jorge |
Calheta |
York |
Sumaca/Balandra |
Brazilizn Wood and tobbaco |
|
838 |
1706 |
? |
Santa Maria |
? |
Nuestro Señor y San José |
Spanish Ship |
From Tierra Firme, 100 tons |
|
152 |
1710 |
25-Dez |
S. Jorge |
Ponta do Topo |
? |
Small island boat |
Four dead |
|
476 |
1712 |
29-Jan |
High seas |
? |
Magnanime |
French Ship |
Duguay Trouin fleet, Captain de Courserac |
|
477 |
1712 |
29-Jan |
High seas |
? |
Fidéle |
French Ship |
Duguay Trouin fleet, Captain de La Moinerie |
|
339 |
1713 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
La Louise |
French Ship |
From Martinica, Cap Bennoist Gomme |
|
262 |
1717 |
? |
Terceira |
Monte Brasil, south face |
? |
Portuguese Nao |
From India |
|
60 |
1719 |
? |
Faial |
Near the island |
? |
? |
From aranhão, Brazil |
|
263 |
1721 |
Dez |
Terceira |
? |
Le Elisabeth |
French Ship |
|
|
61 |
1723 |
? |
Faial |
Horta bay |
? |
? |
|
|
264 |
1727 |
? |
Terceira |
12 miles out |
Rainha Santa |
Portuguese Ship |
From Baía, Brazil |
|
5 |
1727 |
Abril |
Flores |
In face of Vila das Lajes |
Nuestra Señora de las Angústias |
Spanish Galleon |
Cap. Juan Fernandez Arnal, with treasure |
|
839 |
1727 |
? |
Flores |
? |
Nuestra Señora de los Angeles |
Spanish Ship |
|
|
340 |
1737 |
? |
S. Miguel |
Wrecked on shore |
Saint Michel |
French Ship |
Cmdt Michel Giraudel |
|
153 |
1738 |
25-Dez |
S. Jorge |
Ponta do Topo |
? |
Small island boat |
Five dead |
|
6 |
1741 |
28-Jun |
Flores |
? |
Hilversbeek |
Dutch VOC Ship |
From Java, with porcelain, 850 ton |
|
265 |
1750 |
Dez |
Terceira |
? |
Andromade |
French Ship |
From S. Domingo |
|
478 |
1762 |
? |
High seas |
Sunk by artilery fire |
HMS Malborough |
English ship |
From Havana, 70 guns |
|
32 |
1770 |
Dez |
Corvo |
? |
? |
Spanish Nao |
With indigo and treasure |
|
188 |
1777 |
Mar |
Graciosa |
? |
Jean Louis |
French Ship |
|
|
341 |
1779 |
25-Ago |
S. Miguel |
East coast of Salvação fortress, Ponta Delgada |
? |
Schooner |
Wrecked aground in storm |
|
342 |
1779 |
25-Ago |
S. Miguel |
Ponta Delgada |
? |
Four unidentified ships |
Wrecked in a storm |
|
62 |
1779 |
31-Out |
Faial |
? |
? |
English Ship |
Corsair, in a storm |
|
63 |
1779 |
31-Out |
Faial |
? |
? |
Portuguese Ship |
In a storm |
|
64 |
1779 |
31-Out |
Faial |
? |
? |
French Ship |
In a storm |
|
65 |
1779 |
31-Out |
Faial |
? |
Nuestra Señora. del Carmen |
Spanish Frigate |
Seven dead |
|
7 |
1779 |
28-Ago |
Flores |
? |
Poderoso |
Spanish ship of the line |
In a storm, 74 guns |
|
66 |
1779 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Le Marchais |
French Ship |
|
|
346 |
1779 |
Jan |
S. Miguel |
? |
? |
Two unidentified ships |
|
|
840 |
1782 |
? |
Faial |
? |
El Rosario |
Spanish Ship |
|
|
33 |
1783 |
21-Jan |
Corvo |
Wrecked on reefs |
Prince de Kaunitz |
French Ship |
|
|
154 |
1783 |
Fev |
S. Jorge |
Calheta bay |
HMS Pallas |
English Frigate |
Burnt by the Captain |
|
67 |
1786 |
? |
Faial |
? |
Nuestra Señora. del Rosário |
Spanish Ship |
|
|
34 |
1788 |
? |
Corvo |
? |
San Fernando |
Spanish Ship |
With pao campeche |
|
68 |
1789 |
Winter |
Faial |
Horta bay |
? |
? |
Coinage, cargo, 30 crew |
|
69 |
1790 |
24-Jan |
Faial |
? |
Julie |
French Ship |
600 ton. |
|
8 |
1793 |
? |
Flores |
? |
? |
French Ship |
|
|
347 |
1793 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
? |
? |
|
|
348 |
1793 |
? |
S. Miguel |
? |
? |
Brig |
|
|
125 |
1796 |
29-Jan |
Pico |
Shoal east of Santo Amaro |
Astrée |
French Frigate |
From Guadalupe, 138 dead |
|
266 |
1796 |
30-Jun |
Terceira |
9 miles out |
São José |
Portuguese Brig |
Burnt by french corsairs |
|
9 |
1797 |
? |
Flores |
? |
? |
English Ship |
With french prisoners |
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