Caribbean Genealogy - Resources - HurricaneTime Line

*1400*
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		Admiral’s 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 Armada’s 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 NAO’s 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 NAO’s 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 Morgan’s 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		Filzer’s 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. Sutton’s 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-d’or
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.George’s 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
	Oct. 16-17	Dominica; Puerto Rico; Martinique; St.Lucia	100	Dominica earthquake; Barbados earthquake shocks
1817	Sept. 15	Dominica
	Oct. 21	Barbados	200-	Shipping suffers severally
	Oct. 21	St.Vincent; St. Lucia; Dominica; Martinique	250	General Seymour, Governor of St.Lucia and others perish when Government House falls in
1818	Aug. 28	Bermuda
	Sept. 27	Barbados		Extends to Dominica and Martinique
	Nov. 8-12	Jamaica		loss at sea and land
1819	Sept 21-22	Virgin Islands		Greatest damage, severe loss of life; extended to Puerto Rico; felt in St. Maarten; St.Christopher; St.Barths; Antigua and St. Lucia
	Oct. 13-15	Barbados
1821	Sept. 1	Guadeloupe	200+	88 houses destroyed in Basse-Terre
	Sept. 1	Turks Island		extends to the Bahamas
	Sept. 9	Antigua, St.Barths.
1822	Mar. 11	Jamaica		Damage to Montego Bay
	Dec. 18,19	Barbados		Great injury; felt in Dominica, Martinique and Guadeloupe; In Guad. 16 French and 10 American vessels stranded
1825	Jul. 26	Dominica; Martinique; Guadeloupe;	372 -	Numerous lives lost in Basse-Terre; In Guadeloupe Abbe Graffe, Bishop of the French West Indies died;
	Jul. 26	Puerto Rico	1300	6 villages in Puerto Rico destroyed
	Oct. 1	Cuba		Destroy a large number of buildings
1826	Aug. 27	Cuba	33	General Laborde lost his fleet
1827	Aug. 18-21	Leeward Islands		Violent hurricane in Antigua; St.Christopher, Virgin Islands, Haiti, Jamaica; extends to Turks on the 20th, Bahamas on the 21, passed Barbados without injury
	Aug. 28	Virgin Islands
1828	Sept. 13	Bermuda		3 ships lost
1829	Oct. 26	St., Barthemelow		2 ships slip their anchor, one returns Nov. 4, others not heard from
1830	Aug. 11.12.14	Leeward Islands		Dominica, Antigua, St.Thomas, Turks and Bahamas
	Aug. 22-23	Turks; Bahamas
	Sept. 29	Caribbean Islands
1831	Jun. 23-24	Trinidad		Tobago and Grenada included
	Aug. 10-11	Barbados	1500 -2500	Damaged St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Town of Auz Cayes, Haiti was nearly destroyed; St. Jago de Cuba; Havana; Martinique slightly touched.
1832	Jun. 6	Bahamas	52
1834	Oct.20-21	Martinique
	Sept. 20-23	Dominica; Dominican Republic	100-200
1835	Aug. 12-12	Antigua; Nevis; St.Christopher; Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico		Passing over Cuba
	Sept. 3	Barbados; Dominican Republic		Mail Boat, Lady Lunn, sunk, 1 man saved; 2 boats driven to sea from Barbados not heard from after 11 days; 3 deaths on Matilda near Dom. Rep.
1836		Cayman Islands		Men of East End lost at sea
		St.Thomas, V.I.
1837	Jul. 9-10	Barbados
	Aug. 2-4	Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands ;Antigua;	141
	Jul. 26-Aug3	Martinique	57
	Jul 26	Barbados		Passed over Martinique, St.Croix
	Aug. 14-15	Turks; Cacaos
1844	Oct. 4-5	Cuba	100- 101
1846	Sept. 12	Barbados
	Oct. 10-12	Cuba; Cayman Islands	164	Destructive swells in Jamaica; flooding in the Caymans
1847	Oct. 11	Tobago	27
1851	Aug. 15	Dominican Republic		Many casualties
1852	Nov. 6-8	Jamaica		Many lives lost on ships in port
	Sept. 5	Puerto Rico	100
1853	Sept.4-7	Atlantic	40
1854	Sept. 7-13	Atlantic	26
1855	Aug. 26	Dominican Republic		Many casualties
1861	July	Western Atlantic		The Bowditch, swamped, all but Capt. washed overboard
1866	Sept. 30-Oct. 3	Bahamas; Turks	383 - 387
1867	Oct. 29	St.Thomas, Puerto Rico	811
1870	Oct. 7-8	Cuba	136 -2000
1871	Aug. 21	Virgin Islands	27
1873	Sept. 25-Oct. 10	Cuba	26
	Oct. 19-20	West Atlantic		Schooner Enterprise feared lost
1875	Sept. 16-17	Cuba	176 - 180
1876	Sept.13-17	Puerto Rico	19	Suspected the Spanish Govn’t withheld actual damage and death data
1877	Sept 21-Oct.5	Curacao	16 - 84
1878	Oct.21-24	Cuba	71- 72
	Sept.1-13	Dominican Republic; Haiti		Considerable loss of life
	Sept. 25-28	Haiti		American Brigantine wrecked off Tiburon, all hands lost
1880	Aug.18-19	Jamaica	12 - 30
1882	Oct. 8-15	Cuba	36 - 140
	Sept. 4-5	Cuba		"Good many victims"
1883	Sept. 11	Bahamas	106
	Sept. 4-5	Bahamas	50
1884	Oct. 6-8	Jamaica		at least 8 people drowned
1886	Jun.17-24	Cuba		"Not a few drowned"
	Jun 28-29	Cuba; Jamaica		Cuba, some people died at sea and on land; Jamaica - no less than 18 lives lost
	Aug.17-20	Cuba	20-28
	Aug 21-26	Cuba		"crushing many of their inhabitants"
1887	Jun. 11-15	Cuba		"Some drowned’
1888	Sept.1-5	Cuba; Turks; Puerto Rico	921
1889	Jun 15-16	Cuba		"Some people died"
	Sept. 9-12	Atlantic	40
1890	May 28-29	Cuba;		Firemen, marines and civil guard teams were sent from the capital. A good number of these crews lost their lives
1891	Aug. 18-22	Puerto Rico; Martinique; Turks	700 -703
1892	Jun.9-11	Cuba		16 deaths Matanzas and a large number in the vicinity, 1 death in Havana
1894	Sept.23-25	Cuba	200
1895	Oct. 21	Cuba		‘some lives lost"
	Sept. 20-Oct.1	Cuba	56
1897	Sept.25-27	Cuba		"some people died"
	Sept. 8	Atlantic	45
1898	Sept.10-11-	St.Vincent; Barbados	283 -383
1899	Aug.8-9	Puerto Rico	3064 -3433
	Jun.28-29	Cuba; Jamaica		Cuba-some people died on land and sea; Jamaica-18 loss of life
	Oct. 28-29	Cuba; Jamaica		many dead
*1900*
YEAR	DATE	LOCATION	LOSSES*	NOTES
1903	Sept. 15-17	Atlantic	57
	Aug.5-15	Cayman Islands; Jamaica; Martinique	149 - 188
1904	Jun. 13-13	Cuba	87
1906	Oct. 17-18	Cuba	193
1908	Sept. 25-28	Dominican Republic	98
	Sept. 10-12	Turks Islands		19 dead, 8 missing
1909	Nov. 9-13	Jamaica; Haiti; Dominican Republic	97-130
	Oct. 10-11	Cuba	34
1910	Oct. 13-18	Cuba	101
1912	Nov. 17-19	Jamaica	100-200
1913	Oct. 9	Atlantic	135
1915	Aug. 12-17	Cuba; Jamaica	403 - 405
	Sept. 24-29	Jamaica	279
1916	Jul 11-15	Bahamas	26
1916	Aug. 15-16	Jamaica	25-27	17 dead
	Aug 22	Puerto Rico		2 ships missing at sea
	Aug. 28-Sept. 1	Dominica	50
1917	Sept.22-29	Jamaica; Cuba	78
1919	Sept.	Cuba	600-900
1921	Sept. 8-15	Windward Islands	80
1924	Aug. 28-29	Montserrat to Virgin Islands	34-100
1926	Jul 23-27	Bahamas; Puerto Rico; Dominican Republic	60-287
	Sept. 16-21	Bahamas	264-349
	Oct.20	Cuba; Bermuda	709
1927	Aug.22-24	Atlantic	184
1928	Sept. 12-17	Guadeloupe; Puerto Rico; Turks; Martinique	3375- 4075
1929	Sept. 24-29	Bahamas		10 deaths
1930	Sept. 1-6	Dominican Republic	2000-8000
1931	Sept. 10-16	Puerto Rico		2 deaths, 1-300 ton schooner sank, all passengers and hand lost
	Aug.	Dominican Republic; Cayman		25 French ships, several Spanish ships submerged, causing death; men of East End lost at sea
1932	Sept. 26-27	Puerto Rico	225-257
	Nov. 4-10	Cuba; Jamaica; Cayman Islands	2500-3107
1933	Jun.27-Jul.3	Trinidad; Cuba; Jamaica	35
1933	Aug. 15-16	Jamaica	70
	Aug. 30 - Sept. 5	Cuba; Turks	179
1935	Sept. 23-29	Cuba; Bimini	49-74
	Oct. 19-25	Haiti; Jamaica	1000-2150
1944	Sept. 14-15	Atlantic	344-390
*2000*
YEAR	DATE	LOCATION	LOSSES*	NOTES