Sunderland, Fareham

HER Number

14101

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Fareham

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1827 wreck of English brig which stranded behind the South Pier after grounding on the bar on her departure from Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

557000

Grid Reference

NZ441000557000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1346237; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 23-JAN-1827, No.6188; 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; Newcastle Courant
28-JAN-1827, No.7841 Page 4; Durham County Advertiser 20-JAN-1827, No.646 Page 3