Sunderland, Thetis

HER Number

14200

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Thetis

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

1803 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded on Hendon Rock on her passage from Shields with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971490; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-NOV-1803, No.4403; 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; Newcastle Courant 12-NOV-1803, No.6631 Page 4