Sunderland, Resource

HER Number:
16072

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Resource

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1841 wreck of English craft which stranded on Sunderland Beach, following collision with an ice floe which drove her, and several other vessels, from their moorings at Sunderland. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting:
4113

Northing:
5819

Grid Reference:
NZ41135819

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1362126, 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 1843, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1841, Appendix 3 9 Page(s)17 (483); Newcastle Chronicle 23-JAN-1841 [via Ian T Spokes]; M A Richardson 1846 Local Historian's Table-Book of Remarkable Occurrences, Historical Facts....&c. connected with the Counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham Accessed via < http://www.dmm.org.uk/localrec/lr-1841.htm#lhtb > on 08-APR-2009; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 26-JAN-1841, No.8388, column 11 Page(s)3