Talk:List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century

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October 1766
Is the October hurricane in the Western Gulf a duplicate of the major hurricane of early September? The description is vague and the listed source is a paper on Florida hurricanes.AusJeb (talk) 13:44, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

1785
From the Annual Register for 1786:


 * [January 31] The last reports from North America are full of the distresses occasioned by the heavy falls of rain in September and October last. At Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, the waters rose to an alarming height. At Dover, the waters rose about 15 feet perpendicular above the usual flowing of the tide, and carried off several hundred thousand lumber. It destroyed some valuable stores, seven mills and two bridges.
 * At Portsmouth, in Virginia, a most tremendous gale added to the freshes carried several vessels into the fields and woods, where some of them can never be got off. The damage is estimated at 30,000 l.

I suspect from context these are contemporary reports of the storms being reported three months late, rather than aftereffects being back-dated by the Register's editors. The detail may be of some interest; £30,000 is about $140,000 in contemporary currency, and in real terms perhaps something like fifty to a hundred million current dollars. Shimgray | talk | 08:08, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Nice find. I couldn't find an exact conversion, though through inflation that is about $124 million in 2005 USD. Hurricanehink ( talk ) 14:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Another 1785 issue

 * "I. On August 24, an eastward moving hurricane hit St. Croix. It continued to hit Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba before last being seen on the 29th."

My geography may be off, but it seems this storm is moving westward rather than eastward. I know that wind is described by the direction it comes from, but I know of no such convention for hurricanes. Danthemankhan 15:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Two possible interpretations - a) it's a typo; b) the wind was eastwards but the hurricane was heading west, which would make sense if the centre was to the north of the place reporting eastward winds? Shimgray | talk | 19:25, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

How many ships lost on 31st July 1715?
This article says FOUR, but the link that it points to and elsewhere in Wikipedia say ELEVEN. 124.183.121.33 (talk) 07:33, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Great Britain 1703
I think the Great Storm of 1703 that affected Great Britain should be removed from the list. While it cannot be outruled entirely it's very unlikely that it was the remnant of a hurricane. Hurricanes in December are very rare. And then this was during the little ice age when everything was a bit colder which makes it even more unlikely. It's much more likely, actually, it's almost the only possibility that this storm was one of the powerful winter storms which still happen every now and then. --Maxl (talk) 19:22, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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"Rising-Sun" Hurricane Charleston 1700
I took a special interest in this, since two ancestors of mine were on this ship. In addition to "History of Darien" by Borland, available online but nearly unreadable, there is a newer book. "Mornings on Horseback" by McCullough, a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, which covers this event, if also briefly. I edited the entry here to improve its accuracy. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SophoraDeceased (talk • contribs) 21:54, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

18th century
If this is a list of 18th-century hurricanes, it should cover the years 1701-1800, not 1700-1799.