Jean d'Estrées, Count of Estrées

Jean d'Estrées, Count of Estrées (3 November 1624 – 19 May 1707) was a French Navy officer and nobleman who served during the reign of Louis XIV.

Like his father François Annibal d'Estrées, also Marshal of France, Jean pursued a military career from a very young age.

His fleet—12 men of war, 3 fireships, 2 transports, a hospital ship and 12 privateers—met with disaster, losing 7 of the men of war and 2 other ships when they struck reefs off the Las Aves archipelago due to a navigational error on 11 May 1678, a week after setting sail from Saint Kitts.

Navy minister Seignelay received other reports, including d'Estrées' own, which told a different story and one more favourable to the unpopular admiral.

To avoid the risk of running onto shoals and reefs, d'Estrées sent three privateer ships ahead of the fleet to get timely warning of hazards.

They fired guns to warn the fleet following them, but there was not enough time for the large men of war to change course and the result was that nine ships were lost.

The French squadron stranded on the reefs of the Aves Islands.