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15205


Sunderland


Sunderland, Conqueror


Sunderland


NZ45NW


Maritime Craft



Tug


Early Modern


C19


Wreckage


ENGLISH TUG 1856. 'Left Sunderland at 7.20am in wind conditions SSW force 2, and very shortly after struck on a sunken wreck and knocked a hole in her bottom. She was then towed a little further up the harbour, but became a total wreck due to heavy seas. The wreck she struck had been buoyed, but the wreck itself had washed away from the buoy for a distance of about 100 yards' {Larn 1997}. Built in 1841.


4113


5819


NZ41135819



National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 987183; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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

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