Sunderland, Adriatic

HER Number

14304

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Adriatic

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

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

1829 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland during a storm, while at anchor offshore and having cast her ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1356819; 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, 1829, Appendix 8 17 Pages 333 and 713; Durham County Advertiser, 17-OCT-1829, No.789 Page 3