Sunderland, Wearmouth Drops, Robert

HER Number:
16090

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Wearmouth Drops, Robert

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Tug

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
English Tug, 1909. Vessel foundered and lost after being run down by the London-registered SS HIGHGATE. Crew: 2

Easting:
3900

Northing:
5734

Grid Reference:
NZ39005734

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER:1313670; 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