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Hurricane
Time Line
(Thanks to
Ann)
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Updated
09 June, 2006
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This Hurricane time line was compiled to assist with genealogical research in the Caribbean. I have included all references to any hurricane, gale, squall and storm mention in my sources. I will update this list as I receive new and additional information.
Please be aware that I have only included information related to the Caribbean and the areas surrounding. Some of the storms affected other areas, but was not included as relevant. This should be kept in mind when looking at "Losses". If I found specific data on losses I have referred to it in "Notes".
NOTE: In the area of "Losses" I have included all the numbers, from the lowest to the highest. *There is some discrepancy in the Spanish reporting, all my sources report that these countries/islands under-reported their losses.
SOURCES:
- NCEP - Edward N. Rappaport and Jose Fernendez-Partagas
- Williams, Eric E. - From Columbus to Castro
- Dookhan, Isaac - The History of the Virgin Islands
- Petersen, Arona - Food and Folklore; Personal recollections, writings, personal notes.
- Schomburgk, Robert H - The History of Barbados
- Wiltshire, Ernest M. - Friends of the Barbados Archives
THANK YOU for the numerous emails sent to me from the Caribbean Newsgroups.
Ann
Used with permission of the author, AQW. May not be copied, quoted or reproduced without the permission of the author.
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YEAR DATE LOCATION LOSSES* NOTES 1494 June 16 HISPANIOLA 1495 West Indies 3 ships sank 1500
YEAR DATE LOCATION LOSSES* NOTES 1500 July Bahamas 2 Caravels with all crew lost 1502 July 11-12 Dominican Republic 500 July 1 HISPANIOLA 20 ships, all on board perish 1508 Aug. 3 St. Domingo Every house in Buenaventure blown down, entire population lost, 20 vessels lost. 1509 July 29 St.Domingo Damage to the country 1515 July Puerto Rico Death of many Indians 1519 Jamaica 18 men from caravel survived 1524 Oct. Cuba 70 1525 Oct. Cuba 73 1526 Oct. ? Hurricane with severe flooding 1527 Oct Cuba 60-70 Expedition under Narvarez partially destroyed 1530 Aug.31 Puerto Rico 1533 July 26 Puerto Rico Aug. 23 Puerto Rico 1537 Puerto Rico Many slaves drown 1545 Aug. 20 Dominican Republic 1554 November Cuba Admirals ship sunk, small caravel sunk with all but two people drowning Bermuda The San Miguel, leading ship from Veracruz sunk, 25 survived Mona Passage Spanish NAO wrecked 1555 Bahamas Channel The Capitana of New Spain fleet lost 1563 Aug-Oct Bermuda 5 vessels missing 1567 Off Dominica 6 ships carrying 3 million pesos, Island killed all survivors 1579 Aug - Oct Atlantic Spanish Armadas 600 ton Almirante sank 1586 Bahamas Channel 2 12 -ton Spanish Navios, 6-7 others lost, including the San Juan 1589 Sept. Bahamas Channel 10 NAOs lost Sept. 9 Bahamas Channel 4 ships sunk, two were Santa Catalina and Jesus Maria, (350 -400 tons respectively) 1591 Caribbean Sea Ships lost Aug. 10 Atlantic 501 Sept. 1-10 Atlantic 20 ships from Bermuda lost, list of 5 ships total 387; uncertain how many lost 1594 Atlantic Ship lost at sea 1600
YEAR DATE LOCATION LOSSES* NOTES 1605 Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba 3 ships lost, come men survived 1609 Aug. 4 Bahamas 32 1 ship sank off Bahamas 1616 Sept. 15 Puerto Rico Many Deaths 1622 Bahamas Channel 2 NAOs lost 1623 Sept. Cuba 150-250 Sept. 19 St.Christopher Destroy tobacco crops of first settlers 1626 Sept. 15 Puerto Rico 38 1634 Oct. 5 Western Cuba 40 Oct Puerto Rico 2 British ships lost, 2 known survivors 1635 Aug. 24 Western Atlantic 35 1640 Sept. 11 Cuba 36 vessels affected;4 thrown on shore; all but 240 sailors drowned 1641 Sept. 24 Hispaniola 8 ships lost, many perished; many ships in Bahamas Channel 1642 Sept. Lesser Antilles crew of 22 ships drown St.Christopher Houses blown down, 23 fully laden vessels lost. * Three hurricanes this year, this was the second 1644 Oct. Cuba 1500 1650 St.Kitts During 2 different hurricane, 28 merchantmen lost 1651 Martinique 1652 West Indies Fleet under Prince Rupert suffered, his brother , Prince Maurice lost Sept 23-24 Leeward Islands 3 ships and crew missing 1653 July 13 Barbados 1 ship and crew lost ST.VINCENT Death of many savages 1656 Guadeloupe Most houses destroyed,, all vessels destroyed, crew drowned, 2 hurricanes this year 1657 Bahamas Salvage vessels sank off Gorda Bay Guadeloupe After hurricane caterpillars destroy vegetation 1664 Oct. 22-23 Guadeloupe Destroy vegetation, cause almost famine. 1666 Aug. 4-5 Guadeloupe Blew down houses, several killed, Lord Willoughby and his armament lost. Antigua 2 unidentified English warships lost in English harbor; many lives lost Aug. 14-15 Martinique; Guadeloupe 2000 St. Christopher 1667 August 19 Barbados Sept. 1 St.Christopher Not a house or sugar works remain standing 1669 Dec. 9 St.Kitts 25 Merchant and others washed away; Aug. 17 Nevis; Cuba 182 1670 Oct. 7 Jamaica Drove English fleet ashore, except Morgans fleet 1673 Puerto Rico Warship wreck offshore, most of 500 pirates made it to shore 1674 Aug. 10 Barbados 200 1675 Aug. 31 Barbados Sept. 10 Barbados 200 1680 Aug. 3 Martinique over 20 large French ships and 2 English ships lost in Cul-de-Sac Bay; great loss of life Aug. 15 Dominican Republic Many vessels submerged; 25 French ships; several Spanish ships lost 1681 Antigua Caribbean Sea Loss of life and several ships 1692 Jamaica 100 1694 Aug. 13 A great sea wall destroy James fort Oct. Barbados 1695 Oct. 2 Martinique 600 1696 Cuba Unidentified Navio wrecked at Playa de Sabarimar Antigua Filzers Creek; extensive damage and loss to shipping in roads 1700
YEAR DATE LOCATION LOSSES* NOTES 1700 Barbados 1705 Havana 4 Man- of- war with most of crew lost 1707 Nevis 1708 Cuba; Caribbean Sea 578 1712 Sept. 8_ Jamaica 400 Aug. 28 Jamaica Cuba men drowned 1713 Sept. 4-5 Martinique 100 Guadeloupe 1714 Sept. Cuba Frigate-San Juan lost Bahamas 1-2000 Aug.29 Jamaica several man- of -war driven ashore 1715 Jul. 30 Bahamas 1000-2500 1720 Puerto Rico; Hispaniola 500 1722 Aug. 28-Sept.3 Jamaica; Puerto Rico 280 Sept. 8-9 Cayman; Jamaica 400 1724 Sept. 12 Hispaniola 121 1726 Oct.22 Jamaica several houses and 50 vessels lost Nov. 2 Jamaica Many lives lost; 18 at sea 1728 Aug. 19 Antigua 1730 Sept. 1 Jamaica Ship of war carrying ex-president of Panama lost 1731 Barbados June 24 Windward passage Most of crew on Bridget and Kitty perish; Dolphin overturned, 1 death 1733 July 10-11 St.Kitts Crew of multiple ships lost; loss on land Jun 15-16 Bahamas 56 1734 Jamaica 1737 Jamaica Sept. 9 Dominican Republic several Negroes carried away into the sea; several persons drowned near Fort St. Louis; Town of St.Louis entirely destroyed; all ships anchored thrown onto coast Oct. St.Kitts English merchantman, Capt. Suttons ship sank at Basseterre only one survived Montserrat Negroes carried away into the sea 1738 Guadeloupe Town of Grand-Terre severely damaged 1740 Sept. 11-12 Puerto Rico 2 ships of war lost 1742 Oct. 27-28 Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands 2 ships lost 1743 Oct. 20 Jamaica Great number of Marines drowned;7 deaths, small boat wrecked off Gun Key; all but one lost from a plantain boat 1744 Oct.31-Nov.1 Jamaica 182 1746 Caribbean Sea 13 of 21 ships on way from Brazil to Lisbon disappeared without a trace 1747 Sept. 26 Central Atlantic The fleet from Barbados, Lyme man-of-war , 20 guns, overset, all but 4 of crew perish; The Homer, Gardiner, from Barbados to Liverpool, The Falmouth lost, all but 1 man on the latter saved Sept. 21-Oct.24 Leeward Islands 2 hurricanes; 14 sails of merchantmen lost at St.Christopher; 36 at other islands 1751 Jul 24 St.Kitts The Friendship wrecked, none survived, storm felt to Havana 1752 Sept 26. Cuba 16 unidentified ships lost near Havana; Speedwel lost 1754 Sept St.Domingo 12 vessels lost with 1700 hogshead of sugar 1756 Sept. 12 Martinique 1758 Nov. 10 St.Kitts 200 1760 Oct. 25 Barbuda 50 1766 Aug. 13-14 Martinique 30-400 Hurricane followed by earthquake; 100 lives, lost 35+ ships foundered Oct. 6 Guadeloupe 12 inbound slave ships from Africa to Isle de Saints totally lost Sept. 13-15 St.Christopher; Montserrat half of town on Montserrat destroyed; many vessels lost Sept. 21 ST.EUSTATIUS; Totuga Oct. 6 Dominica; Guadeloupe 5 vessels driven on shore Oct. 21-23 Pensacola(?) 5 Spanish vessels driven on shore in Bay of St. Bernard 1767 Aug. Martinique 1600 1768 Oct. 15-25 Cuba 43-1000+ 4100+ houses destroyed 1772 Aug. 4-5 St.Domingo Southern part of island devastated, many ships lost Aug. 28-Sept.3 Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; Jamaica 28-280 Puerto Rico-Hurricane accompanied by earthquake Aug. 31 Leeward; Virgin Islands Numerous lives lost; great number of vessels lost Aug. 30 St. Kitts; Dominica great loss of life 1774 Oct. 20 Jamaica 1775 Jul. 31 Caribbean Sea English merchantman, Gill, from St.Eustatius to St.Vincent sank; Nov. 2 Caicos Islands 11 merchantmen and several English warships lost in Windward Passage 1776 Sept. 5 Martinique 22 sails destroyed Sept 6 Guadeloupe 6000 1777 Sept. 10 Central Atlantic The Ariadne, Ruffel, from Dominica to London lost, all hands saved. 5 others of the fleet missing 1778 Oct. 28-31 Cuba Greatest by drowning 1779 Aug. 28 Martinique Many loss of life Dec. 3 US Coast; Atlantic 120 The Mary, Pippard, from St.Kitts to New York, overset near Sandy-Hook, vessel and cargo lost; Also A Brig with rum from Antigua 1780 Jun. 13 Puerto Rico Death and lost Oct. 3-4 Jamaica 1115 Hurricane and earthquake destroy Savannah-la-mar, Westmoreland, Hanover; a great portion of Cornwall, St. James, St. Elizabeth; felt on the 4th. In Cuba Oct. 10-11 Barbados; St. Lucia; St.Vincent; Grenada; St. Christopher; Martinique total loss all islands 22000 With earthquake in Martinique, 9000 lives lost, damage 700,000 Louis-dor
1781 Aug. 1 Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands 120 vessels driven ashore and destroyed, including 30 British man-of-war, many lives lost Oct. 29 Atlantic The Peace and Plenty, from Cork to W.I. , all but 1 perished 1782 Aug-Sept Atlantic(?) The Corfaire, St. Juan Nepomuzeno, Capt. Gallardo, sailed from St. Andero for Havana, foundered in sight of port, all lost Oct. -Nov Atlantic ship foundered in passage in Haiti to Europe 1784 July 30 Jamaica Also 2 earthquake shocks, 2 lives lost from ship Hanover Planter, half of Industry crew lost, also 2 other unnamed vessel Curacao; several large ships wrecked in harbor, several forced to sea, lost with out a trace 1785 Aug. 24-29 Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Cuba; St.Croix 142 Aug. 31 Guadeloupe Cayman Islands 1786 Sept. 2 Barbados; Dominica Martinique; many people killed in the ruins of their own home Aug. St.Domingo Sept. 10 Guadeloupe Oct. 20 Jamaica 1787 Aug. 3; 23; 29 Dominica 3 hurricanes destroyed all vessels, blew down barracks and buildings on Morne Bruce 1788 Aug. 14 Martinique Aug. 14-19 Bahamas; Dominica 600-700 1791 Jun. 21 Cuba 30-3000 11,700 head of cattle drowned in floods 1792 Aug. 1-2 Lesser Antilles Loss of life in St.Kitts, Antigua, 10 ships in St.Barths with loss of life; Spanish brig sunk between St.Kitts and St. EUSTATIUS, 2 survivors 1793 Aug. St.Christopher Aug. 13-16 Virgin Islands 28 1794 Aug. 27-29 Cuba 100 loss of several vessels Jul. 30 Jamaica Many lives lost Jun. 27 Jamaica The prize ships from St.Domingo to Jamaica lost near Kingston 1795 Aug. 18 Antigua 1796 Oct. 3 Bahamas Injury to shipping and country 1799 Sept. 23 Jamaica 27 1800
YEAR DATE LOCATION LOSSES* NOTES 1800 Oct. 9 Atlantic 25 saved from Galgo 1801 July 22 Nassau 120 sails wrecked on shore 1803 Aug West Indies 121 Between Jamaica and England 1806 Sept. 20 Dominica 165 Sept. 9 Dominica 131- 457 1809 Aug Tortola, Montserrat 62 Jul 27; Aug. 1 West Indies Dominica, Guadeloupe; ; Jamaican fleet dispersed Aug. 17-19 Puerto Rico Aug. 27 Central Atlantic The Express cutter, along with several of fleet lost Aug. 3 Puerto Rico HMS Lark, 1 survivor Sept. 2 Guadeloupe Oct. 13 Martinique Oct. 18 Trinidad Small vessels driven onshore 1810 Aug. 12 Trinidad Damage to towns, Toco, scarcely a house standing; also Diego Martin; schooner Laura driven ashore ; felt in Barbados 1812 Oct. 12 Jamaica Oct. 14 Cuba 500 houses in the city of Trinidad, many vessels wrecked in harbor of Casilda Cayman Islands men of East End lost at sea 1813 Jul. 22 Barbados 18 dead, 8 missing Jul. 22-23 Dominica, Martinique; St. Christopher The barracks at Morne Bruce leveled , numbers killed, wounded or blown over the cliffs into the sea; Shipping driven ashore in St. Christopher Aug. Martinique 3000 Jul. 26 Bermuda 60 ships in St.Georges harbor stranded Jul. 31 Jamaica Number vessels sunk or stranded in Port Royal; Earthquake 1815 Sept 18 St.Bartholomew Sept. 29 Barbados Oct. 17-19 Jamaica 100 Surrey county, several vessels stranded, lives lost 1816 Sept. 15 Barbados