The list of shipwrecks in the 17th century includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost between (and including) the years 1601 to 1700.
1601–1610
1601 20 July — Gift (): The East India Company vessel was abandoned in the Atlantic while on a voyage from Torbay to the Canaries.
1606 18 August — Dom Duarte De Guerra (): The Portuguese Navy galleon was lost during the Battle of Cape Rachado within the Strait of Malacca. The wreck was found in 1993 off the Bambeek Shoal. 18 August — ( Dutch East India Company): The ship was lost during the Battle of Cape Rachado off Port Dickson, Malay Peninsula. The wreck was found in 1993 off the Bambeek Shoal. 18 August — São Salvador (): The Portuguese Navy frigate was lost during the Battle of Cape Rachado within the Strait of Malacca. The wreck was found in 1993 off the Bambeek Shoal. 18 or 22 August — ( Dutch East India Company): The ship was lost during the Battle of Cape Rachado off Port Dickson, Malay Peninsula. The wreck was found in 1993 off the Bambeek Shoal. unknown date — Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (): Lost off the mouth of the River Tagus, near Lisbon. She was carrying peppercorns of black pepper (Piper nigrum), with some salvaged and all the crew of the nau saved.
1607 20 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The ship was wrecked while leaving Vlissingen in a storm.
1609 28 July — Sea Venture (): Having left England for the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the Sea Venture was blown off course, developed a serious leak in a hurricane and, on seeing land, grounded on a reef east of St. George's Island, Bermuda whilst trying to reach shore. The one hundred and fifty crew and passengers were the first settlers on Bermuda. 24 August — Good Hope (): The pinnace was wrecked on the coast of Gujarat, India. (Date is approximate). 3 September — Ascension (): The crew of the East India Company vessel, abandoned ship when she ran aground on the Malacca Banks, in the Gulf of Khambhat. The crew reached Surat, Gujarat. Unknown date — San Francisco (): The ship sank off the coast of Japan. She was on a voyage from New Spain to the Spanish East Indies.
1610 10 January — Nossa Senhora da Graça ( Portuguese Empire): The carrack was scuttled in Nagasaki Bay, Empire of Japan with much loss of life.
1611–1620
1613 7 August — ( Dutch East India Company): The pinnace ran aground off Madagascar. November — (): The ship was destroyed by fire in the Hudson River, North America.
1616 4 January Abraham (Flag unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Jonas (Flag unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. Unknown ship (Flag unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. 25 August — ( Dutch East India Company): The pinace ran aground off Engano, West Sumatra while en route for Batam from Coromandel. 25 November — Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (): The carrack was wrecked off the Portuguese coast on her return from the Indies to Viana do Castelo. unknown date Unknown ship (): Thought to be a cargo vessel which foundered off Rill Cove, near Kynance Cove in Mount's Bay, Cornwall. Finds include 300 coins in two datable groups 1555–98 and 1598–1603/5. The year 1616 is tentative. Unknown ship: Wrecked offshore of the Isles of Scilly.
1616 or 1617 unknown date — Unknown ship: (): Equipped by Sir Walter Raleigh at his own expense, the ship sank in the Isles of Scilly during a gale, while outward bound to Guiana seeking gold.
1617 10 January — Johane (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England. 17 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The 50 ton pinnace ran aground off Suratte, while en route from Bantam. 19 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The frigate was lost off Suratte while on a journey from Bantam to Suratte. unknown date — Supply (): The pinnace, belonging to the East India Company, was driven aground on the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly while homeward bound from Bantam to London. Men saved and goods salvaged, and she made a second voyage to Java in 1621 and was reported as laid up, there, in 1623.
1618 21 August — Golden Wagon (): The ship was driven ashore and wrecked near Dover, Kent. November — Blind Fortune (): The barquentine was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. 15 November — Sun (): The East Indiaman ran aground at Engano, Sumatra. Unknown date — Sampson (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.
1619 20 November — Warwick (): The merchantman, owned by the Earl of Warwick and on charter to the Virginia Company, sank during a gale in Castle Harbour, Bermuda. The passengers had disembarked and the cargo unloaded before the storm. unknown date — Unnamed ship (): With a cargo of silver bullion, the San Lucar ship was wrecked near Polpear Cove on the Lizard peninsula.
1621–1630
1621 Unknown date — Ark Noah (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England.
1622 25 May Tryall (): The ship struck submerged rocks off the Montebello Islands, Western Australia. The crew survived. This is the oldest known shipwreck in Australian waters. 5 September Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario (): The sailing ship, along with seven others, out of a fleet of twenty-eight, was lost during a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, between Florida and Cuba. The ships, left Havana on 4 September, with gold for the Spanish treasury. Nuestra Senora de la Consolacion (): The galleon capsized during the same hurricane as, Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario. Nuestra Senora de los Reyes (): The slave ship sank near East Key, part of the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico. 6 September Nuestra Senora de Atocha (): Out of Havana and carrying a valuable cargo of silver, gold and tobacco for Spain, two hundred and sixty people died when Atocha sank in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. Santa Margarita (1622) (): One of eight ships that sank between Havana and Florida with a cargo of gold and silver.
1623 19 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The ship was lost off Formosa while in the service of the Kamer van Amsterdam. November — Anne Lyon (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. December — Unidentified ship (Flag unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.
1624 15 July — White Swan (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England. 4 October — A storm wrecked many of the 120 vessels anchored in The Downs and 20 of them foundered. 4 October A warship () exploded in The Downs with the loss of 200 of her crew. A warship (), the flagship of Mooy Lambert, foundered in The Downs. Her crew survived. 27 October — Dolphin (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.
1625 23 February — Golden Rose (): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent, England. She was on a voyage from St. Lucar, Spain to Hamburg. 5 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The East Indiaman was lost off Texel. 25 September — Moon (): The East Indiaman was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.
1626 21 June — Three great ships (one ) were sunk in The Downs when one of them exploded.
1627 28 November — Solen ( Sweden): The 38-gun galleon was scuttled by the crew during a battle off Danzig. In the 1970s the vessel was excavated by Polish archaeologists.
1628 10 August — ( Royal Swedish Navy): The warship capsized and sank off Stockholm on her maiden voyage with the loss of 30 lives. The wreck was salvaged in 1959.
1629 4 June — Batavia ( Dutch East India Company): The vessel struck Morning Reef near Beacon Island, Western Australia on her maiden voyage from Texel for Batavia. Forty people drowned and over one hundred people died during a mutiny. 24 August — L´estourneau: Capsized during a storm off Canso, Nova Scotia with the loss of fourteen people.
1631–1640
1631 March — Fame (): The ship was wrecked on a sandbank at the mouth of Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Hoorn to the West Indies. 10 September — ( Dutch East India Company): The pinnace ran aground and was wrecked, when her cables parted during a typhoon near Hirado, Japan. Four other ships, Arend, Heusden, Kemphaan and Parel also ran aground but were refloated. 12 September Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres (): The galleon sank in battle against the Dutch flagship Prins Willem, during the Battle of Albrolhos, near the islands of Abrolhos, off the Bahia coast, Brazil. This was the smaller of two Portuguese ships called Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres involved in the battle. ( Dutch East India Company): The carrack and flagship of Admiral Peter was lost during the Battle of Albrolhos, near the islands of Abrolhos, off the Bahia coast, Brazil. ( Dutch East India Company): The carrack was lost during the Battle of Albrolhos, near the islands of Abrolhos, off the Bahia coast, Brazil. San Antonio (): The galleon sank during the Battle of Albrolhos, near the islands of Abrolhos, off the Bahia coast, Brazil. 21 October — Nuestra Señora del Juncal (): The galleon sank off the coast of Mexico, during its journey between Veracruz and Havana, as it was heading to Spain. Of the 300 people on board, only 39 survived.
1632 January— Unnamed cargo ship: Wrecked in Manor of Tintagel near Crackington, St Gennys, Cornwall with the loss of all lives. She was carrying fustick wood and tobacco.
1633 July— Blessing of Burntisland (): The ship capsized and sank in the Firth of Forth off Burntisland, Fife with the loss of 33 of the 35 people on board. Unknown date— Alfresia (): The ship was wrecked at Dungeness, Kent, England.
1634 24 July — ( Dutch East India Company): The ship ran aground on a shoal in the Paracels, South China Sea. 11 October — At Dagebüll, Netherlands ships were left stranded on the dike, and at Husum, Netherlands ships were washed on to the highway after a flood, known as the Burchardi flood. Eight thousand to fifteen thousand people are estimated to have drowned.
1635 February — A galleon (): Homeward bound from the Indies, the galleon was captured and looted by the Dutch. Putting into "Guavers Lake" (Gwavas Lake) off Newlyn she hit the Low Lee ledge. Attempts at salvage by the authorities were opposed by the inhabitants of Mousehole and Market Jew who raided the ship at night and took away "two hundred hides". A looted cannon from this ship was salvaged by the Greencastle in 1916 and for many years was in front of Penzance Library, before being stolen. 24 July – Nossa Senhora de Belem (): The East Indiaman was wrecked north east of Port St. Johns, Dutch Cape Colony. All on board survived. She was on a voyage from Goa, Portuguese India to Lisbon. 15 August — Angel Gabriel (): Operating as a merchant ship as part of a small convoy bound from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the 240-ton galleon was driven onto rocks on the coast of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Pemaquid Point in Penaquid (now Bristol, Maine), during a storm, killing most of the people on board. There were some survivors.
1636 24 March — Gift of God (): Sailing ship of Kirkcaldy wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.
1637 18 February – Three Dutch Republic () warships were lost during a naval action off the coast of the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall. A Spanish armada of eight warships intercepted an Anglo-Dutch merchant convey of fifty vessels and also captured seventeen of the ships.
1638 22 August Battle of Getaria: The fireship Chasseur () was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Fortune () was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Ours () was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Saint Jean Baptiste () was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Saint Louis d'Olonne () was expended in battle. Battle of Getaria: The fireship Soleil () was expended in battle.
1639 18 September — Action of 18 September 1639: The full-rigged ship Groote Christoffel () exploded and sank in the English Channel off Calais, Kingdom of France. 31 October