Ryhope, Charles

HER Number

15211

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Ryhope, Charles

Place

Ryhope

Map Sheet

NZ45SW

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

1828 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded at Ryhope after getting into difficulties on her departure from Sunderland on 13th January. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel. En route from Boston. Master: Potts. All the crew were lost.

Easting

441710

Northing

553190

Grid Reference

NZ441710553190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1356815; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-JAN-1828, No.6291; 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; Durham County Advertiser
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