Sunderland, Robert

HER Number:
14103

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Robert

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1817 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded behind the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41

Northing:
57

Grid Reference:
NZ4157

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971574; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 23-DEC-1817, No.5239; 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, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page 290 (690); Newcastle Courant 27-DEC-1817, No.7368 Page 4