Sunderland, Ajax

HER Number:
14841

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Ajax

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Collier

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1799 wreck of English collier which stranded near Sunderland Bar, on her maiden voyage out of Sunderland with coal; a wooden sailing vessel. One of the five crew drowned. A subscription was set up to form the Sunderland life-boat association.

Easting:
4113

Northing:
5819

Grid Reference:
NZ41135819

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1338330; Terence Grocott 1997 Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras pages 88-9; Newcastle Advertiser 04-JAN-1800, No.586 Page 2; Newcastle Courant 04-JAN-1800, No.6430 Page 4; Newcastle Chronicle 04-JAN-1800