Sunderland, Laurel

HER Number

15157

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Laurel

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

1804 wreck of English craft which stranded near the Battery at Sunderland during a gale; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558300

Grid Reference

NZ441000558300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971503); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 03-APR-1804, No.4441; 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 (CF); Newcastle Courant 31-MAR-1804, No.6651 Page(s)4