Sunderland, Shaftesbury

HER Number:
14104

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Shaftesbury

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brig

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1817 wreck of English brig which stranded following a collision with the South Pier on her arrival at Sunderland; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41

Northing:
57

Grid Reference:
NZ4157

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971571; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 03-JUN-1817, No.5182; 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 287 (667); Newcastle Courant 31-MAY-1817, No.7338 Page 4; Durham County Advertiser 07-JUN-1817, No.144 Page 3