Sunderland, Prince Albert

HER Number

16071

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Prince Albert

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Tug

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1841 wreck of English tug which stranded on Sunderland Beach following a collision with an ice floe which broke several ships from their moorings there. Constructed of wood, she was a paddle steamer.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1362134; 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 Shipwrecks 1841, Appendix 3 9 Page(s)16 (482); Newcastle Chronicle 23-JAN-1841 [via Ian T Spokes]; 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 Accessed via < http://www.dmm.org.uk/localrec/lr-1841.htm#lhtb > on 08-APR-2009; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-JAN-1841, No.8384, columns 7-8 Page(s)2