Sunderland, Rosebud

HER Number:
16073

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Rosebud

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Snow

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1841 incident in which an English snow, laden with coal, grounded on Sunderland Beach, following a collision with an ice floe which broke several ships from their moorings at Sunderland. She was later recovered and her damage repaired. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting:
4113

Northing:
5819

Grid Reference:
NZ41135819

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1387313; 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, Report 1, Appendix No.3 9 Page(s)17 (483); Lloyd's 1964 Lloyd's register of British and foreign shipping 1841, No.444; 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 07-APR-2009; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 26-JAN-1841, No.8388, column 11 Page(s)3