Sunderland, Elizabeth and Peggy

HER Number

15202

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Elizabeth and Peggy

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

1810 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded opposite the barracks at Sunderland harbour. She had left Shields with coal but put back to Sunderland through contrary winds; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971511; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-AUG-1810, No.4486; 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 18-AUG-1810, No.6984 Page 4; Newcastle Advertiser 18-AUG-1810, No.1140 Page 4; Newcastle Advertiser 18-AUG-1810, No.1140 Page 4; Newcastle Courant 19-JAN-1811, No.7006 Page 1