Sunderland, Rachael

HER Number

15158

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Rachael

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1804 incident in which an English brig or brigantine foundered following a collision with the North Pier, at Sunderland, to be recovered, repaired The vessel was recovered, repaired and sold, on the bankruptcy of her owner George Gregson. She was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Minto.

Easting

441000

Northing

558300

Grid Reference

NZ441000558300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971497); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 17-JAN-1804, No.4419; 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 14-JAN-1804, No.6640 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 27-OCT-1804, No.6681 Page(s)1