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HMS Feversham

Lost: 1711
Location: Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Coordinates: 46.0200, -59.8000
Era: British Royal Navy Losses
Coinage: milled
Discovered by: Sport divers
Recovery: 1982
Cargo: Massachusetts and colonial silver, Spanish reales, Pay chests, Portuguese gold

Royal Navy frigate wrecked off Scatarie Island, Nova Scotia, while escorting a convoy carrying pay-chests for the failed Quebec Expedition.

History

HMS Feversham was a 32-gun fifth-rate escorting three transports carrying pay for the Walker Expedition against Quebec when she was wrecked in a gale off Scatarie Island on 7 October 1711. All four vessels were lost; of her complement of roughly 148, about 46 men drowned, including her captain, and roughly 102 survived. The pay chests aboard held a mix of Massachusetts and Spanish colonial silver assembled in Boston and New York.

Recovery

The site was investigated in the 1970s and worked more thoroughly from 1982 under Nova Scotia's licensed archaeological and salvage arrangements. Coinage recovered includes Massachusetts Pine Tree shillings and Spanish colonial cobs — a snapshot of colonial North American currency at the turn of the 18th century.

Timeline

1711 — Escorting Convoy — Escorting pay-transports for the Walker Expedition.
1711 — Wrecked at Scatarie — Lost with three transports in a 7 October gale; about 46 of ~148 crew died.
1970s–1980s — Rediscovered and Worked — Site investigated in the 1970s, then worked under licence from 1982.
1980s — Coinage Recovered — Pine Tree shillings and Spanish cobs lifted.

Notes

Yielded Massachusetts Pine Tree shillings — key early American coinage
Sank while paying troops for the failed 1711 attack on Quebec
About 102 of her roughly 148 crew survived the wreck