Sunderland, Two Sisters

HER Number:
14089

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Two Sisters

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:
1818 wreck of English craft which stranded behind the North Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland harbour; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
40

Northing:
58

Grid Reference:
NZ4058

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1345632; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 10-MAR-1818, No.5261; 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; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1818, Appendix 7 17 Pages 292 and 672; Durham County Advertiser 07-MAR-1818, No.183 Page 3; Newcastle Courant 07-MAR-1818, No.7378 Page 4