Sunderland, Conqueror

HER Number

15205

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Conqueror

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Tug

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH TUG 1856. 'Left Sunderland at 7.20am in wind conditions SSW force 2, and very shortly after struck on a sunken wreck and knocked a hole in her bottom. She was then towed a little further up the harbour, but became a total wreck due to heavy seas. The wreck she struck had been buoyed, but the wreck itself had washed away from the buoy for a distance of about 100 yards' {Larn 1997}. Built in 1841.

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 987183; 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