Sunderland, Victoria

HER Number

14044

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Victoria

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH SCHOONER, 1854 Vessel drove ashore in wind conditions SE force 10 on the rocks north of the pier and was wrecked due to stress of weather.

Easting

41

Northing

59

Grid Reference

NZ4159

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 987174; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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