Sunderland, Nightingale

HER Number

15219

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Nightingale

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH CARGO VESSEL, wrecked at South Battery Rocks in 1755. Master: Atkinson

Easting

441670

Northing

557460

Grid Reference

NZ441670557460

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971397; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 09-MAY-1755, No.2017; 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