Sunderland, Roscoe

HER Number

14088

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Roscoe

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

This schooner went to pieces after going ashore in 1853 behind the north pier at Sunderland, in wind conditions ENE force 5 and dense fog. Her crew were saved.

Easting

440000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ440000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1362523; 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; Lloyd's 1964 Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping 1852, No.360(R)