south carolina

[oceanslave]

list of wrecks in south carolina

 

[Galleon Hunter]

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 Live Oak
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 La Bricole, 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 gunboat No. 157
1811. U.S. Navy gunboat No. 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 John Stoney, 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

 

[Jolly Mon]

Here is a newspaper clipping from the South Carolina Gazette, Nov, 1752.

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[oceanslave]

thanks was there a book with reference to these ships

 

[ScubaFinder]

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).

 

[Galleon Hunter]

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 New England, 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 Mary Scheper; 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

 

[Scotdixon]

My advice, go through SCIAA obtain a hobby license, no carpet baggin! S.C. has rules. Cool register!

 

[OCEANJAS]

keep up the work timmy