Sunderland, Swan

HER Number

14074

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Swan

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Snow

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH SNOW, 1857. Having left Altona at 8am on 18-MAR, on reaching Sunderland in wind conditions SE x S force 9, struck on the Bar, lost her way and drove behind the pier at high water at 10pm to become a total wreck.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 987250; 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; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]