Sunderland, Courier (Currier)

HER Number:
14108

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Courier (Currier)

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1812 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded behind the South Pier while calling at Sunderland, en route from Peterhead to London with dried fish; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41

Northing:
57

Grid Reference:
NZ4157

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971528; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 14-JAN-1812, No.4630; 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; Newcastle Advertiser 11-JAN-1812, No.1213 Page 4; Tyne Mercury 14-JAN-1812, No.503 Page 3