Roker, Hebble

HER Number

12930

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Roker, Hebble

Place

Roker

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

POSSIBLE REMAINS OF ENGLISH CARGO VESSEL, 1917. While making for Sunderland Harbour, this steamship struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-42 at 11.50 a.m, whilst employed on Government service as an ammunition Stores Carrier No 3. The ship sank at once, 11 of the crew being rescued by a motor launch and landed at Sunderland. The chief engineer and four others were lost.

Easting

444080

Northing

559070

Grid Reference

NZ444080559070

Sources

Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 18; Young, R. (2000) Comprehensive guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast (The): Volume One (1740 – 1917), Tempus, Gloucestershire. p. 141, Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project, National Monuments Record 908713; J J Colledge 1989 Ships of the Royal Navy, volume 2: navy-built trawlers, drifters, tugs and requisitioned ships from the fifteenth century to the present, Page 106; Hydrographic Office wreck index 09-MAR-1993; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 1990 Lloyd's war losses, The First World War: Casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918, Page 130; 1988 British vessels lost at sea 1914-18 and 1939-45, Page 4; A J Tennent 1990 British merchant ships sunk by U boats in the 1914-1918 war, Page 148; Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Receiver of Wreck Amnesty (23-Jan to 24-Apr-2001)