Sunderland, Macduff

HER Number

14065

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Macduff

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1827 wreck of Scottish craft which stranded against the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland harbour. On her passage from Leith, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1348257; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 02-MAR-1827, No.6199; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Section 6, County Durham; Durham County Advertiser 03-MAR-1827, No.652 Page 3