Sunderland, Shipwright
Sunderland, Shipwright
HER Number
15199
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Sunderland, Shipwright
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ55NW
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Transport Vessel
Site Type: Specific
Cargo Vessel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
1817 wreck of British cargo vessel which foundered off Sunderland en route from Kingston-upon-Hull to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after springing a leak; a wooden sailing vessel.
Easting
441000
Northing
558300
Grid Reference
NZ441000558300
Sources
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971570; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-MAR-1817, No.5158; 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
1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page 286 (666); Durham County Advertiser 15-MAR-1817, No.132 Page 3
1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page 286 (666); Durham County Advertiser 15-MAR-1817, No.132 Page 3