1520. Spanish caravel Buen Jesús 1520 or 1521. A Spanish vessel (identified as a nao or caravel 1525. An unidentified caravel that was part of an expedition under the command of Don Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, 1526. An unidentified Spanish merchant nao 1526. The Capitana of the fleet on Don Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon 1561. Two Spanish frigates Sometime prior to 1563. Six Frenchmen had met a band of Indians and had taken from them 400,000 ducats of Spanish gold. The gold, evidently had come from a shipwreck in the area. Sometime prior to 1578. An unidentified French Sometime prior to 1663. An unidentified English ship 1663. An unidentified English vessel 1682. A small-unidentified English vessel 1686. Three Spanish vessels 1698. Spanish adviso 1700. Scottish merchantman Rising Sun 1706. “two vessels 1706. English galley Littleton 1707 or 1708. A small-unidentified English sloop 1713. A large number of ships 1718. Three small sloops 1718. English slave brigantine Princess 1718. American ship William 1718. sloop Dove brigantine Dorothy, 1728. English ship Mary Ann (or Maryann) Scottish ship Olive English ship Carolina Packet, 1730. Several ships 1730. English pink Triton 1731. An unidentified merchant sloop 1731. American merchant sloop Tace 1732. American sloop Triumph 1732. American brigantine Britania 1732. American brigantine Isaac 1733. English merchantman Abigail & Ann 1735. Spanish pinque Jesús-Mariá-Joseph Sometime around 1735. Mike Freeman of Ox Hill, Maryland discovered an old wreck loaded with stacks of bricks during a side-scan sonar search of the Black River. The wreck, located near Brown’s Ferry, was incorrectly identified as a 19[SUP]th[/SUP] century barge and largely ignored. 1738. British ship Baltick Merchant 1739. British sloop H.M.S. Hawk 1740. English merchantman Vernon 1741. A large unidentified ship 1741. A large brigantine 1741. English merchantman Woolford 1741. An unidentified ship 1741. An unidentified French sloop 1741. An unidentified 1742. American ship Queen of Carolina 1744. English merchantman Sarah (or Anne & Sarah 1744. English ship Hare 1745. American sloop Black Joak 1745. English ship Dundee 1745. British privateer snow Betty 1745. An unidentified sloop 1746. A small unidentified sloop 1746. American schooner Murray 1747. American sloop Wanton 1747. English ship Oak 1747. Three unidentified “light vessels” 1747. American privateer Proof 1750. English merchantman Caesar 1751. American brigantine Elizabeth 1751. Scottish merchantman Martha 1751. English sloop Preston 1752. English merchantman Bennet Galley 1752. English slave ship Africa 1752. More than twenty large merchantmen and three large British warships 1752. British warship H.M.S. Mermaid 1752. English snow Bristol Merchant 1752. English snow Vine 1753. The English snow Constantia 1754. English brigantine William 1755. English sloop Polly 1755. British warship H.M.S. Jamaica 1757. A slave ship of unknown registry, Anamaboo 1757. Scottish snow Peggy 1758. English merchantman Marcella 1759. American brigantine Spy 1759. English merchantman Judith 1759. An unidentified ship 1760. An unidentified Dutch sloop 1761. Four ships 1761. English merchantman Success 1761. Bermudian sloop Patty 1762. American brigantine Betsey 1762. A tender to the British privateer Eagle 1762. A small unidentified sloop 1762. An unidentified English schooner 1762. An unidentified schooner 1762. An unidentified schooner 1766. English merchantman Speedwell 1767. Portuguese ship St. Anthony, English ship Mary 1767. American schooner Good Intent 1768. English merchantman York 1769. A small boat 1769. An unidentified American sloop 1770. American sloop Ann 1770. English merchantman Sergeant Glynn 1772. American schooner Liberty, 1775. English merchantman Nancy 1775. American schooner Defense 1776. An unidentified French sloop 1776. The Battle of Sullivan’s Island
frigates H.M.S. Actaeon, H.M.S. Sphinx and H.M.S. Syren 1776. British sloop-of-war H.M.S. Cruizer 1777. English sloop Nancy 1777. French ship Lilancour (or Lilaneeur 1777. American ship Weatherall 1777. An unidentified ship 1778. An unidentified English snow 1778. French ship Angelica 1778. French schooner Bienheureuse 1779. An unidentified American schooner 1779. American ship LiveOak 1779. English brig Peace & Harmony 1780. The South Carolina armed schooner (also described as a row galley), Rattlesnake 1780. British armed transport Vigilant 1780. An unidentified ship 1780. Three American warships the frigate LaBricole, 44-guns; the ship General Moultrie, 20-guns; and the brigantine Notre Dame, 16-guns. 1780. French frigate La Truite 1780. American naval frigate U.S.S. Queen of France 1780. British supply ship Aeolus 1780. Three unidentified warships 1780. British privateer Vigilant Circa 1780-1810. The Clydesdale Plantation Wreck 1781. British warship Thetis and London; the English merchantman Despatch, arriving from Jamaica, Leeds Industry, the English merchantman Port Morant, Jamaica 1781. British brig-sloop H.M.S. Hope 1781. An unidentified sloop 1781. British privateer sloop Lord North 1781. American ship Port Morant 1781. American galley Tyger 1781. American brig Jamaica 1781. English sloop Andromeda 1782. British galley Alligator 1784. Three English merchantmen the America, the Swift, and the Suffolk 1785. English merchantman Dispatch 1785. American ship Fanny 1785. An unidentified schooner 1787. English ship Hope, and the Scottish ship Three Friends, 1788. American ship America 1790. English merchantman Speedwell 1791. American ship Governor Bickney 1791. American schooner Governor Hamilton 1791. American ship Termagant 1792. Several large unidentified merchant ships 1792. American schooner Griffin 1793. French frigate Ariel, 1796. Two English merchantmen the Powhaton and the Grampus 1797. Two merchantmen the English ship Three Friends, and the American ship Polly 1797. American brig Patsey Wentworth 1797. American ship Powhaton 1799. American sloop Seaflower 1800. English merchantman Argus 1800. An unidentified sloop 1800. An unidentified schooner 1801. English ship Patrick 1801. English ship Patriot
1801. An unidentified vessel 1801. American ship Amity 1801. American schooner Beginning 1801. British merchantman Bristol 1801. American brig Peggy 1802. American ship Monticello 1802. American schooner Mary 1802. An unidentified brig 1803. American schooner William 1803. American ship Roxa 1803. American schooner Anna 1803. British merchantman Juno 1803. American schooner Sally 1803. American brig 1804. An unidentified vessel 1804. Five unidentified ships 1804. American schooner Favorite 1804. American schooner Iona (or Ino 1804. American packet brig Consolation 1804. American schooner Perseverance 1805. American schooner Patience 1805. American sloop Young America 1805. American schooner Franklin 1805. Two English merchantmen the Northumberland, and the Jack Park 1805. American merchantman Montezuma 1806. A large ship variously identified as the Sally, or the Two Friends 1806. Two English slave ships the John and the Swan 1806. American brig Lucinda 1807. American sloop John 1807. British brig Antelope 1808. American schooner Clotilda 1809. American sloop Hibernia 1809. American brig Venus 1809. American schooner Industry 1809. American sloop Revival 1809. English ship Davis 1810. Two English merchantmen the Sarah, and the Cracklow 1810. British schooner Sarah Milnor 1810. American schooner Roby 1811. English ship Benson 1811. American schooner Lucy 1811. U.S. Navy gunboatNo. 157 1811. U.S. Navy gunboatNo. 2 1812. A large unidentified schooner 1812. American gunboat No. 62 1812. Two U.S. Navy gunboats, No. 161 and No. 164 1812. U.S. Navy gunboat No. 159 1812. The American brig Matthew 1813. American schooner Boston 1813. British sloop-of-war H.M.S. Colibri 1813. A large number of ships 1813. British sloop-of-war H.M.S. Sylph 1813. American schooner Harriett 1813. The brig Tarter 1813. U.S. revenue cutter U.S.R.C. Gallatin 1813. A sloop of unknown registry, General Hodgkinson, 1813. British schooner H.M.S. Dominica, 1813. French schooner Inca, 1813. American schooner Hazard 1813. Numerous vessels were driven ashore or destroyed. Some of the vessels included, the Spanish schooner Del Carmes; the sloop Necessity; the schooner Bryon; the schooner Union; the schooner Cornelia; the ship Sally; the ship Jupiter; the ship Juno; the brig Margaret; the brig South Boston; and an unidentified Spanish schooner. 1813. Four unidentified vessels 1814. British schooner H.M.S. Ballahoo 1814. American schooner U.S.S. Ferret 1814. American schooner U.S.S. Alligator 1814. British sloop H.M.S. Peacock 1814. American gunboat U.S.S. Alligator (ex-Gunboat No. 166 1814. British East Indiaman General Wellesley 1814. An unidentified British schooner 1814. American schooner Friends 1814. British brig Roper 1815. A small unidentified vessel 1815. Two merchantmen the English ship Spring and the American ship Hercules 1815. Several small American coastal trading vessels 1815. American schooner Brant 1815. American schooner Favorite 1815. American schooner Nonsuch 1815. British brig Spring 1815. American brig Sterling 1815. American ship Alexander 1816. Three British merchantmen the Albion the Maria and the Polly 1816. American schooner Young Sea Horse 1816. British merchantman Harriet 1816. Spanish schooner Diamante, (or Diamond 1816. French sloop Calliope 1816. American steamboat Enterprise 1817. British brig Nancy 1818. The privateer Young Spartan 1818. Spanish sloop Remedos 1818. The Venezuelan privateer Cerony (alias Felix) 1818. English merchantman Margaret 1820. English ship Dee 1820. An unidentified brig 1820. American sloop Young 1821. A ship of unknown registry, Minerva 1821. American schooner Monroe 1822. American ship Calcutta 1822. American sloop William & Ann) 1822. English sloop Harker 1822. American schooner Little Jack 1823. American schooner Hazard 1823. American schooner Fame 1824. English merchantman Plantagenet 1824. American side-wheel steamer William Lowndes, 1824. American side-wheel steamer Columbia 1824. American schooner Mulberry 1824. American schooner Live Oak 1826. American sloop Pandora 1829. American revenue cutter U.S.R.C. Crawford 1832. American schooner Ortolan 1833. American ship Pennsylvania 1834. Four American vessels the schooner Maria the brig Francis Ann, the schooner JohnStoney, and the sloop Exchange 1835. Two American side-wheel steamers were destroyed: the Macon and the Charleston 1835. American side-wheel steamer Sir Walter Raleigh 1836. American steamboat Free Trade 1836. American schooner Manuel, 1836. American brig Improvement 1837. American schooner Martha Pratt 1837. American Three Sisters 1838. American brig Phoebe 1839. American schooner Harvest 1839. American schooner Walter E. Hyer 1839. American schooner Enterprise 1840. American side-wheel steamer North Carolina 1841. American schooner Nancy 1841. American brig Detroit 1841. American schooner Christopher Columbus 1842. American side-wheel steamer Florida 1843. American schooner U.S.S. Grampus 1843. American brig Detroit 1843. American sloop Martha Y. Howren 1843. American steamer Utility 1845. American schooner Erie, 1845. American side-wheel steamer Walter Raleigh 1846. American side-wheel steamer Osceola 1846. Two American steamers, the Utility and the Wateree 1849. American side-wheel steamer Richland, 1850. American schooner Fox 1850. American side-wheel steamer Wateree 1852. American screw-propeller steamer Pilot 1853. American side-wheel steamer Robert Martin 1853. British ship Austria 1853. American schooner S.J. Moys (or S.J. Moye 1853. American brig Nancy Pratt 1853. American side-wheel steamer Marlboro 1853. U.S. revenue cutter Alexander Hamilton 1854. American schooner Lucy Ann, 1854. British barque Aquatic 1854. American brig Joann 1854. American brig E. Hinds 1854. American schooner Mary D. Hayman 1854. American brig Horace Greeley 1854. A square-rigged sailing ship of unknown registry, Delia Maria, 1855. American schooner Augustus Moore 1855. American ship Harkaway 1856. British merchantman Hardy 1857. American steamship S.S. Central 1857. American sloop Winged Racer 1859. American schooner Haze 1859. American schooner Samuel Adams 1859. American schooner Mary Louisa 1860. American survey steamer Walker 1861. Confederate privateer schooner Petrel 1861. Confederate blockade runner Thomas Watson 1861. Confederate side-wheel steamer Osiris (or Orsini 1861. Union screw-propeller transport steamer Osceola, 1861. Union side-wheel steamer transport Peerless, 1861. Union side-wheel steamer Governor 1861. British blockade running schooner Prince of Wales 1861. Sixteen vessels filled with granite, were sunk as part of the “First Stone Fleet”
For the sake of brevity I decided to stop at the Civil War
There will be soon, that is an excerpt from Galleon Hunter's new books. His reference will be the most comprehensive list of of shipwrecks ever published (at least in my opinion).
Oceanslave: You asked for a "list." Here are the rest of my South Carolina shipwrecks. I stopped my research at 1900. PM me if there is any particular vessel on this list you would like more detailed information on.
1862. Union barque Marcia 1862. Union forces assembled a “Second Stone Fleet” consisting of thirteen obsolete vessels, mostly smaller barques and brigs. The ships were loaded with stone, towed to the south edge of Rattlesnake Shoal, Maffitt’s Channel and intentionally sunk to block Charleston Harbor
The “Second Stone Fleet” included: the ship Bogota, 300-tons; barque Dove, 151-tons; barque Jubilee, 233-tons; ship Majestic, 297-tons; barque Margaret Scott, 330-tons; ship Mechanic, 335-tons; barque Messenger, 216-tons; ship NewEngland, 368-tons; ship Newburyport, 341-tons; barque Noble, 274-tons; ship Peri, 265-tons; brig Stepen Young, 199-tons; and the ship Timor, 289-tons. Bruce Berman’s Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks omits the Bogota but mistakenly includes the barque Edward, 340-tons; the ship Emerald, 518-tons; the barque Marcia, 343-tons; the ship Montezuma, 424-tons; and the ship Valparaiso, 402-tons. 1862. Union transport steamer Winfield Scott 1862. Five Confederate coastal schooners the Elizabeth; the Edisto,; the Wando; the Theodore Stoney and the Patriot 1862. Confederate gunboat C.S.S. Rattlesnake 1862. Union brig Empire 1862. Three Confederate vessels the schooner George Washington, the schooner Julia Worden (or Julia Warden), and the sloop Mary Louisa 1862. Confederate schooner Experiment 1862. British schooner Liverpool 1862. Confederate schooner Sir Robert Peel 1862. Confederate schooner Samuel Adams 1862. British schooner Chase 1862. British schooner Sarah 1862. Confederate schooner Edwin 1862. A flat barge belonging to J.J. Middleton, 1862. Confederate brig Joseph 1862. Confederate side-wheel steamer Nelly (or Nellie 1862. British screw-propeller steamer Minho 1862. British steamer Angelia 1862. Confederate steamer Scotia 1862. British schooner Pathfinder 1863. American schooner Lotus 1863. Confederate side-wheel steamer Tropic (formerly the C.S.S. Huntress 1863. Confederate side-wheel steamer Nina 1863. Confederate iron-hulled screw-propeller steamer Thistle 1863. British side-wheel steamer Havelock 1863. British iron-hulled screw-propeller steamer Wave Queen or Queen of the Wave 1863. Confederate steamer C.S.S. Georgiana 1863. Confederate hermaphrodite brig Georgia’s Pride 1863. Confederate side-wheel transport steamer C.S.S. Etiwan 1863. Confederate transport steamer Marion 1863. Union ironclad U.S.S. Keokuk 1863. Union side-wheel steamer George Washington
1863. Confederate side-wheel steamer Stonewall Jackson, (formerly the British steamer Leopard 1863. British schooner Golden Liner (or Gold Linen) 1863. Confederate schooner George Chisholm 1863. Confederate schooner Antoinette 1863. British screw-propeller steamer Norseman 1863. Confederate sloop Munson 1863. Union steamer Thomas F. Secor (or T.F. Secor), 1863. British screw-propeller steamer Gertrude 1863. Confederate screw-propeller steamer C.S.S. Stono 1863. Union barque Whistling Wind 1863. Union steam tug Governor Milton 1863. British side-wheel steamer Ruby 1863. Confederate steam scow Gabriel Manigualt 1863. Confederate side-wheel steamer Raccoon 1863. Side-wheel steamer Robert Habersham 1863. Union barque Faith 1863. Confederate steamer Sumter (alias Gibraltar 1863. Confederate blockade runner Rover 1863. Union ironclad monitor U.S.S. Weehawken 1863. Union coal barque Alice Provost 1864. British side-wheel steamer Dare, (or Virginia Dare) 1864. Confederate iron-hulled side-wheel steamer Presto, (also known as the Fergus 1864. Union steam sloop-of-war U.S.S. Housatonic 1864. Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley 1864. Confederate steamer Helen (formerly the Juno 1864. Union army side-wheel transport steamer U.S.S. Boston 1864. British side-wheel steamer Rose 1864. Confederate side-wheel steamer C.S.S. Etiwan 1864. British iron-hulled screw-propeller steamer Prince Albert 1864. British paddle-wheel steamer Mary Bowers 1864. British side-wheel steamer Constance or Constance Decima 1864. Confederate side-wheel steamer Flamingo 1864. British iron-hulled side-wheel steamer Flora, (also known as the Kate and the Anna 1864. An unidentified sloop 1864. British iron screw-propeller steamer Beatrice 1864. American schooner Robert B. Howlett 1864. British iron-hulled side-wheel steamer Julia 1865. British schooner Celia 1865. Confederate screw-propeller ironclad ram C.S.S. Columbia, (also known as the Ashley), 1865. Union ironclad monitor U.S.S. Patapsco 1865. Confederate sloop Thompson 1865. Confederate steamer John Randolph 1865. Union screw-propeller steam gunboat U.S.S. Dai Ching 1865. British twin screw-propeller steamer Rattlesnake 1865. Confederate side-wheel steamer Celt (also known as the Colt, or Sylph 1865. Confederate receiving ship C.S.S. 1865. Three Confederate torpedo boats (called “Davids”) 1865. Two Confederate ironclad rams the C.S.S. Palmetto State and the C.S.S. Chicora 1865. Confederate ironclad sloop C.S.S. Charleston 1865. Confederate States schooner C.S.S. Indian Chief 1865. Union side-wheel steamer Harvest Moon 1865. Confederate gunboat Pee Dee 1865. American side-wheel steamer Fannie Lehr 1865. American steamer Commodore McDonough 1866. American schooner Minnehaha 1866. American side-wheel steamer Suwanee, 1866. American side-wheel steamer General Hooker 1867. American side-wheel steamer R.E. Bell, 1867. American side-wheel steamer Raleigh 1868. French schooner L’Audacieuse 1870. American iron-hulled side-wheel steamer Tennessee 1871. American side-wheel steamer S.S. Henry Chauncey 1873. American side-wheel steamer Nick King 1773. American schooner O.J. Lang 1874. Canadian ship Percy Thompson 1874. American screw-propeller steamer Sherman, (formerly the Princess Royal) 1874. American steamer General Sherman 1874. American side-wheel steamer Amanda Winants 1876. American side-wheel steamer Planter 1877. British schooner William Danforth 1880. American steamship Bedford 1880. British schooner White Cloud 1881. American ship Sandusky 1881. Several vessels: Pilot Boat #3; the schooner Daisy,; the tug boat Canoochee; the schooner MaryScheper; and the barque Traveler 1881. American schooner Nettie Langdon 1881. American screw-propeller steamer United States 1882. American steamer Marion 1887. American schooner Fred W. Chase 1887. American steamship Cherokee 1887. American sloop Carrie & Hattie 1887. American schooner Bertha 1887. American schooner Fair Dealer 1888. American schooner Hattie N. Gove 1889. American schooner Franklin Woodruff 1889. American steamer Chancellor 1891. Two American schooners: the Potosi, and the Thomas W. Haven 1893. American iron-hulled screw-propeller steamer City of Savannah 1893. American barkentine Freeda A Willey, (also known as Freida Wyley, Freeda Wyley or Freeda A.Wyley 1894. American schooner Cothrade 1895. American sloop Adventure 1897. American schooner Louisiana 1897. British schooner Androcules 1899. American screw-propeller steamer William Lawrence