Sunderland, Friends Delight

HER Number

14312

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Friends Delight

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

BRITISH CARGO VESSEL, sank off Sunderland in 1787 while en route from Sunderland to Poole. Her master was Collingwood.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 971442; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 28-DEC-1787, No.1945; 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