1752 wreck of brig which stranded near Sunderland during a gale, while on her passage from London and Whitby. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel. 'Newcastle, Jan. 18. On Friday se'nnight, a hard gale coming on at ENE, 10 out of 14 sail of ships, which came out of Whitby, were put on shore near Sunderland' {The Bristol Weekly Intelligencer}.

1829 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland during a gale, while attempting to reach Sunderland harbour. Thought to have been in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel. `On Tuesday night a dreadful storm arose at NE, and several light ships having come to anchor in Sunderland Roads (the greater part of which had cast their ballast) they were consequently placed in the most dangerous situation. In the morning of Wednesday the gale increased and several of the vessels, unable to ride out the storm, even after cutting away their masts, drove on shore either on the rocks near the harbour, or on the sands near Hendon. Therefore before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the shore presented the melancholy spectacle of 13 stranded vessels - some went to pieces immediately...Happily, up to this period no lives were lost...The beach is covered with wreck and wrecked materials...FRIENDS, BLAGDON, CALEDONIA, SYREN, JAMES, IRIS, of Harwich, ELEANOR, PHOENIX, MARGARET, of Sunderland, and ADRIATIC of Shields, gone to pieces; the crew of the THOMAS FENWICK, of Shields, got safe on shore, and the vessel soon after disappeared' {Durham County Advertiser}.

2 January 1796 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland, after springing a leak en route from Klaipeda (another source says Elsineur), Memel to London with a cargo of timber; a wooden sailing vessel. Ten days after the wreckage the captain was killed: 'Captain Irvine was one of the twelve survivors of the shipwreck, and on this Thursday, 12 January, while he was assisting to salvage the cargo, a tier of the timber that had been stacked on the shore suddenly fell down upon him and imprisoned him by the thigh. Every endeavour was used to extricate him, but in vain, and before a surgeon could arrive to cut off the imprisoned member, the tide flowed in and ended all hopes of relief. In this terrible situation and under the most excruciating torture from the pressure upon his fractured limb the poor man remained, recommending his wife and children to the agonized spectators upon the strand, till the water reaching his head closed the afflicting scene. Captain Irvine left a wife and two children' {Terence Grocott 1997, The Times and Newcastle Courant
14-JAN-1797}. Master: Irvine, Crew: at least 12, Crew Lost: 12, master died later.

1790 wreck of English brig which foundered off Sunderland following a collision on departure from that port; a wooden sailing vessel. Registered in Dover. The Master was called Smithet. `Newcastle, Nov. 13...On Friday a very large fleet of ships sailed out of Sunderland harbour; but in the course of that night, they met with a strong gale of wind from the southward, which obliged the greatest part of them to run for Shields; and in the throng the brig THOMAS AND MARY, Capt. Ellender, of Stockton, ran foul of a brig belonging to Dover; the blow was so heavy that the Dover brig instantly went down, and Capt. Ellender was under the necessity of cutting his anchor from the bows, or he must have shared the same fate, it being hooked to the Dover brig's fore-rigging' {Newcastle Chronicle}.

SCOTTISH SCHOONER, 1897. Stranded and lost near Sunderland. Owner: D. McLellan, Inverness, Built: 1860, Crew: 5, Master: S. Maxwell.

1829 wreck of English cargo vessel (built 1816 and registered in Newcastle) which stranded near Sunderland in a storm, while at anchor offshore and having cast her ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. `On Tuesday a dreadful storm arose at NE, and several light ships having come to anchor in Sunderland Roads (the greater part of which had cast their ballast) they were consequently placed in the most dangerous situation. In the morning of Wednesday the gale increased and several of the vessels, unable to ride out the storm, even after cutting away their masts, drove on shore either on the rocks near the harbour, or on the sands near Hendon. Therefore before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the shore presented the melancholy spectacle of 13 stranded vessels - some went to pieces immediately...Happily, up to this period no lives were lost...The beach is covered with wreck and wrecked materials...PHOENIX...of Sunderland...gone to pieces' {Durham County Advertiser}.

ENGLISH CRAFT, 1822. `Sunderland, 11th May. Yesterday a most severe gale of wind commenced from the E & ESE with continued rain, and it is yet (11am) very bad weather. I fear bad accounts of the shipping, as a number both light and loaded would be caught on this coast...indeed we have already advice of four sail being on shore in our immediate neighbourhood...' `The ORMUS of Sunderland, from London and the ENTERPRIZE of Shields, were wrecked near Sunderland on Saturday.' ({Lloyds list}.

1823 incident in which an English sloop grounded on the Herd Sand during a gale, while en route from Sunderland to Hastings. This wooden sailing vessel was shortly afterwards recovered. Master: Depiose or Depose

1841 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand on her departure from the Tyne with coal. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel. Newcastle Courant 10th September 1841:
'On September 4th while the BROTHER owned by Warner of Yarmouth, a vessel coal-laden, was attempting to go to sea, it blowing at north-east at the time, a heavy sea, got on the Herdsand, by four o'clock in the afternoon, she fell over and went to pieces, scarcely a vestige of her was to be seen, on the following morning, the crew were saved by the lifeboat.'

1871 wreck of English craft which stranded on the Herd Sand in a gale. Master: Rawlings During the great gale of February 10th, there were six casualties in the estuary: the REMEMBRANCE...JANE...ANN...JABEZ...BRITISH QUEEN of London...and VALLIANT...all were wrecked on the Herd Sand.