Sunderland, Thetis

HER Number:
14200

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Thetis

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:
1803 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded on Hendon Rock on her passage from Shields with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41

Northing:
58

Grid Reference:
NZ4158

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971490; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-NOV-1803, No.4403; 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 Courant 12-NOV-1803, No.6631 Page 4