Sunderland, Providence

HER Number

15176

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Providence

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Having left Boston three days earlier, this sloop became unmanageable in the breakers in wind conditions SE force 9 with heavy rain, so that she went ashore and became a total loss in 1860.
Built: 1840
Crew: 3

Easting

441000

Northing

558300

Grid Reference

NZ441000558300

Sources

National Monuments Record (996798); United Kingdom shipwreck index; 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