Sunderland, Macduff

HER Number:
14065

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Macduff

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1827 wreck of Scottish craft which stranded against the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland harbour. On her passage from Leith, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41

Northing:
58

Grid Reference:
NZ4158

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1348257; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 02-MAR-1827, No.6199; 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; Durham County Advertiser 03-MAR-1827, No.652 Page 3