Sunderland, Hare

HER Number

14105

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Hare

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Paddle Steamer

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1841 wreck of English tug which stranded behind the South Pier on Sunderland Beach after a collision with an ice floe which broke several ships from their moorings at Sunderland itself. Constructed of wood, she was a paddle steamer.

Easting

441000

Northing

557000

Grid Reference

NZ441000557000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1362128; 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; Parliamentary papers 1843, Select Committee on Shipwreck 1841, Appendix 3 9 Page 16 (482); Newcastle Chronicle 23-JAN-1841; M A Richardson 1846 Local Historian's Table-Book of Remarkable Occurrences, Historical Facts....&c. connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-JAN-1841, No.8384, columns 7-8 Page 2