Whitburn, Whitburn Sands, Orion

HER Number

16091

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whitburn, Whitburn Sands, Orion

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

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

1832 wreck of English brig which was beached on Whitburn Sands after catching fire shortly after leaving Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441110

Northing

560230

Grid Reference

NZ441110560230

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1387157; 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