Hendon, Butterwreck

HER Number

12927

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Hendon, Butterwreck

Place

Hendon

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Wreck

General Period

UNCERTAIN

Specific Period

Uncertain

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

A local name for a unnamed steamer of 5000 tons. Well broken up and lying in 12 metres of water (Collings). A steamship which is believed to lie south east of Hendon in 12m of water.

Easting

441000

Northing

555000

Grid Reference

NZ441000555000

Sources

Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 18; Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project, National Monuments Record