Sunderland, Challenge

HER Number

15187

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Challenge

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ55NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Lugger

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

BRITISH LUGGER, 1897. Foundered and lost whilst fishing in high wind conditions, following collision with the S.S. BUCENTAUR.

Easting

441000

Northing

558300

Grid Reference

NZ441000558300

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1365932; 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