Sunderland, Rosebud

HER Number

16073

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Rosebud

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Snow

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1841 incident in which an English snow, laden with coal, grounded on Sunderland Beach, following a collision with an ice floe which broke several ships from their moorings at Sunderland. She was later recovered and her damage repaired. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1387313; 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, Report 1, Appendix No.3 9 Page(s)17 (483); Lloyd's 1964 Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping 1841, No.444; 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 07-APR-2009; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list
26-JAN-1841, No.8388, column 11 Page(s)3