Sunderland, Safety

HER Number:
16074

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Safety

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Tug

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1841 wreck of English tug which stranded on Sunderland Beach after collision with an ice floe, which caused several ships to break from their moorings at Sunderland. Constructed of wood, she was a paddle-driven steamer.

Easting:
4113

Northing:
5819

Grid Reference:
NZ41135819

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER:1362125; 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 No.3 9 Page(s)16 (482); Newcastle Chronicle 23-JAN-1841 [via Ian 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 21-JAN-1841, No.8384, columns 7-8 Page 2