Sunderland, Courier (Currier)

HER Number

14108

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Courier (Currier)

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1812 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded behind the South Pier while calling at Sunderland, en route from Peterhead to London with dried fish; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

557000

Grid Reference

NZ441000557000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971528; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 14-JAN-1812, No.4630; 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; Newcastle Advertiser 11-JAN-1812, No.1213 Page 4; Tyne Mercury 14-JAN-1812, No.503 Page 3