Sunderland, Lile

HER Number

14216

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Lile

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Barquentine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Wrecked offshore in the Great Storm of 13th November 1901. A timber barquentine. En route from Sunderland to Malpas near Truro. Registered in Plymouth. All 6 crew were lost.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

Maritime Archaeology Project, 2006, The Great Storm of 1901 - Information and Education Pack (assembled by RJ Carlton and J Catling); National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1365984; 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; United Kingdom Shipwreck Index:BOT Wk Rtn 1901 Appx C Table 1 p126(694); LR 1901-2 No 299(L)