Sunderland, Ajax

HER Number

14841

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Ajax

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Collier

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1799 wreck of English collier which stranded near Sunderland Bar, on her maiden voyage out of Sunderland with coal; a wooden sailing vessel. One of the five crew drowned. A subscription was set up to form the Sunderland life-boat association.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1338330; Terence Grocott 1997 Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras pages 88-9; Newcastle Advertiser
04-JAN-1800, No.586 Page 2; Newcastle Courant 04-JAN-1800, No.6430 Page 4; Newcastle Chronicle 04-JAN-1800