Sunderland, Phoenix

HER Number

14722

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Phoenix

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

1829 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland in a storm, while at anchor offshore and having cast her ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1356818; 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, 1818, Appendix 8 17 Page(s) 333 (713); Durham County Advertiser 17-OCT-1829, No.789 Page(s) 3