Hurricanes During the GAoP

[MadMike]

Hurricanes during GOAP

Offshore Barbados 27 Sep 1694 >1000

S Bahamas, Straits of FL 30 Jul 1715 (>1000-<2500),>1000,1000

Offshore Martinique Oct 1695 >600

Southwest Caribbean Sea 1708 578

Offshore Puerto Rico 1720 >500

Florida east coast 1683 496

Jamaica 8 Sep 1712 >400

Jamaica, Cayman Islands 8-9 Sep 1722 400

Hispaniola 12 Sep 1724 121

Jamaica 1692 >100

Martinique 4-5 Sep 1713 100

Charleston (SC) 14 Sep 1700 98

South Carolina 16-17 Sep 1713 70

Martinique 3 Aug 1680 "During a violent hurricane...over twenty large French ships and two English ships were totally lost in Cul-de-Sac Bay and the loss of life was great."

Aug 1680 "submerged...many vessels...(including) twenty-five ships of France...causing the death of most"; several Spanish ships lost as well.

W Carib. Sea 1681 "loss of lives...considerable" from several ships

Nevis 1689 "A dreadful mortality swept away one-half of the inhabitants of Nevis.

FL Keys 4 Oct 1695 offshore loss of 933 ton warship

NW Cuba 1696 "An unidentified navio was wrecked at Playa de Sabarimar, 7 leagues east of Havana, in 35 feet of water, during a storm..."

Virginia, Oct 1703 "several (vessels) driven to sea, and no more heard of."

Havana (CU) 1705 4 men of war, "with most of their crews, were lost"

US E coast 6 Nov 1706 14 ships foundered and "others were given up for lost."

Jamaica 1712 "New colonists and old pirates and seamen were drowned in hurricane waves and river floods. Many others were killed in the wreckage of English houses built of flimsy boards."

Near Havana (Cu) 1712 "drowned men"

Florida Keys late Jun 1714 "many of his ships...sank...and many men got somehow to land....many men and women floated dead."

Cuba Sep 1714 frigate San Juan lost

Louisiana 12-13 Sep 1722 "During a hurricane...a large number of unidentified ships were sunk at and near New Orleans."

Jamaica 2 Nov 1726 "Many lives lost with at least 18 at sea."

NC 13 Aug 1728 All of crew lost from ship sunk off Okracoke Island; "only a few survivors" --no date "Many ships were lost, one as far north as few miles off Ocracoke."

Jamaica 1 Sep 1730 ship of war (carrying ex-President of Panama) lost

Caribbean Sea 1730 Nuestra Senora del Carmen "went down in a hurricane south of Jamaica"

(Source- National Hurricane Center).

Say some prayers for our brethren along the Gulf Coast with the approach of Hurricane Katrina.

Yours, &c.

Mike

Pirates of Massacre Island

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