Sunderland, Phoenix

HER Number:
14722

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Phoenix

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:
1829 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland in a storm, while at anchor offshore and having cast her ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
4113

Northing:
5819

Grid Reference:
NZ41135819

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1356818; 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, 1818, Appendix 8 17 Page(s) 333 (713); Durham County Advertiser 17-OCT-1829, No.789 Page(s) 3