Ryhope, Niord

HER Number

14050

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Ryhope, Niord

Place

Ryhope

Map Sheet

NZ45SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1898 wreck of Danish cargo vessel which stranded 2 miles north of Seaham harbour en route from Randers via Frederikshavn to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in fog and storm conditions. She was laden with general cargo at the time. Constructed of iron in 1877, she was a steam-driven vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

553000

Grid Reference

NZ441000553000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1365949; 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; World Wide Web page http://www.sbib.dk/documents/Dansk_soeulykkestatistik/1899_01-67.pdf accessed and translated from the Danish on 15-JAN-2008