Sunderland, Swan

HER Number:
14074

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Swan

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Snow

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
ENGLISH SNOW, 1857. Having left Altona at 8am on 18-MAR, on reaching Sunderland in wind conditions SE x S force 9, struck on the Bar, lost her way and drove behind the pier at high water at 10pm to become a total wreck.

Easting:
41

Northing:
58

Grid Reference:
NZ4158

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 987250; 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; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]