Sunderland, Shaftesbury

HER Number

14104

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Shaftesbury

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1817 wreck of English brig which stranded following a collision with the South Pier on her arrival at Sunderland; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

557000

Grid Reference

NZ441000557000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971571; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 03-JUN-1817, No.5182; 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 287 (667); Newcastle Courant 31-MAY-1817, No.7338 Page 4; Durham County Advertiser 07-JUN-1817, No.144 Page 3