Sunderland, Dorothy

HER Number

14307

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Dorothy

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

1794 incident in which an English craft grounded near Sunderland during a storm, to be recovered shortly afterwards; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971457; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-FEB-1794, No.2584; 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
01-FEB-1794, No.6111 Page 4; Newcastle Advertiser 01-FEB-1794, No.276 Page 2; Newcastle Courant 08-FEB-1794, No.6112 Page 4