Sunderland, Meriam

HER Number

14350

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Meriam

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

1752 wreck of British cargo vessel which stranded near Sunderland en route from London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Boston (USA), possibly also having called at Whitby. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

558000

Grid Reference

NZ441000558000

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1312259; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 17-JAN-1752, No.1686; 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; The Bristol Weekly Intelligencer 25-JAN-1752, No.122 Page 3