Sunderland, Tyro (or Trio)

HER Number

14840

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Tyro (or Trio)

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1794 wreck of English craft which stranded near Sunderland during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971456; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-FEB-1794, No.2584; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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 01-FEB-1794, No.6111 Page 4; Newcastle Advertiser 01-FEB-1794, No.276 Page 2