Sunderland, Eleanor

HER Number

15191

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Eleanor

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1829 wreck of English sloop which foundered immediately off Sunderland while trying to make for the harbour in a gale; a wooden sailing vessel, thought to have been in ballast.

Easting

441000

Northing

558300

Grid Reference

NZ441000558300

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1409206; Durham County Advertiser 17-OCT-1829, No.789 Page 3