Sunderland, Shipwright

HER Number:
15199

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Shipwright

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ55NW

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:
1817 wreck of British cargo vessel which foundered off Sunderland en route from Kingston-upon-Hull to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after springing a leak; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
41000

Northing:
58300

Grid Reference:
NZ4100058300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971570; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-MAR-1817, No.5158; 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, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page 286 (666); Durham County Advertiser 15-MAR-1817, No.132 Page 3