Sunderland, Robert

Sunderland, Robert

HER Number
14103
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Sunderland, Robert
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
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
1817 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded behind the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.
Easting
441000
Northing
557000
Grid Reference
NZ441000557000
Sources
National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971574; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 23-DEC-1817, No.5239; 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
1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page 290 (690); Newcastle Courant 27-DEC-1817, No.7368 Page 4