Cork Shipwrecks 18th Century

18th Century Shipwreck List

A list of strandings wreckings and disasters in and around Cork Harbour
(From Youghal to the Old Head of Kinsale)

This list has been generated from primary sources. In written accounts - especially from the 17th and 18th Centuries, there was sometimes a severe time lag between the event and the reporting of it. For this reason there may be errors in the date of the actual occurence.


December 1710	Several Unnamed vessels
January 1711	Unnamed Swedish Vessel
August 29th 1715	Kent
December 25, 1724	Three Unnamed Vessels

May 1728	HMS Assistance
February 1729	Two Unnamed Ships
November 1730	Unnamed Danish Ship
May 1732	Mary
November 24th, 1735	Prince of Orange
January 1736	Unnamed Dutch vessel
	Unnamed West Indiaman
	Unnamed ship for Lisbon
November 1739	Unnamed from New England
December 1739	Unity
November 1743	Shelden
January 1749	Speedwell
February 1749	Vessel from Jamaica
April 1749	Friendship
February 10, 1750	Concord
February 1750	Unnamed ship from Jamaica
February 15, 1750	Three Brothers
December 22, 1750	Twins
January 1752	Wimbledon
January 1753	Unnamed Liverpool Slave Ship (probably the Lovely Betty)
March 1754	Unnamed French Ship
October 1755	Joseph
September 22, 1757	English Oak
September 02, 1758	Mercury
November 1758	Mary
December 06, 1758	Pembroke
December 1759	Unknown
March 12, 1762	James
April 02, 1762	Unnamed from N America
	Mercury
	Unnamed from Guadalupe
	Three Unnamed from Lisbon
November 10, 1762	Norwegian Vessel Several unnamed vessels
December 1763	Union
December 1765	Britannia
August 31, 1766	Thomas
November 1766	Adventure
November 1767	Unnamed Vessel
January 1768	Ship from Memel
February 06, 1768	Industry
April 1768	Pompey
November 24, 1772	Speedwell
December 5, 1772	Philadelphia
February 1773	Kelp Vessel
April 06 1773	Wilding
January 1774	Nancy
January 25 1775	Polly
January 25 1775	*Geddes*
October 03, 1775	Charming Sally
December 22, 1775	Rockingham
January 28 1776	Two whaleboats
February 1776	Rialto
March 1776	*Lark*
March 1777	*Hibernia*
May 07, 1779	Snapper
April 09, 1780	Betty
October 13, 1781	James
January 05, 1782	Isabella
September 21, 1782	Juno
April 1783	Unnamed Kelp Vessel
November 1784	Prince William
December 14, 1785	Peggy
January 1786	Thomas and William
January 1786	William and Margaret
July 23, 1787	Unnamed vessel
December 22 1787	*Hope*
December 1788	Friendship
October 06, 1789	Hector
November 26, 1790	Mary
June 01, 1791	Britannia
January 1792	Douglas
February 1793	Active
November 03, 1793	Naval Whaleboat
October 1794	Industry
November 1794	Mary
Winter 1794	Two Friends
January 1795	Unnamed Brigantine
January 1796	*HMS Hindustan and others*
February 1796	*HMS Canada*
February 12, 1796	Stag
April 1796	Unnamed from Oporto
July 15, 1796	HMS Trompeuse
February 1797	Unnamed Galliot
February 1797	Maria Christiana
March 1797	*Queen of Naples*
November 17, 1798	Eliza Castor Bee
December 22 1787	Hope
December 1798	Boyd
December 1798	Dispatch
December 1798	Charlotte
February 06, 1799	Fishing Boat
February 07, 1799	Vessel from Newry
February 1799	Beaver
February 1799	Unnamed Fishing Boat
March 1799	Alligator