Sunderland, Robert and Susannah

HER Number

14724

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Robert and Susannah

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

13 November 1790 wreck of English brig which foundered off Sunderland following a collision on departure from that port; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971447; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 16-NOV-1790, No.2247; 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 13-NOV-1790, No.5953 Page 4; Newcastle Chronicle 13-NOV-1790, No.1376 Page 2