Sunderland, Tiny

HER Number

15221

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland, Tiny

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Leisure Craft

Site Type: Specific

Yacht

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

A British yacht possibly employed on Admiralty service, which was bombed by German aircraft and sank in South Dock, Sunderland in 1941. A wooden sailing vessel with an auxiliary oil engine. 5 tons

Easting

441130

Northing

558190

Grid Reference

NZ441130558190

Sources

National Monuments Record MONUMENT NUMBER: 1369737; 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; 1989 Lloyd's war losses: the Second World War 3 September-14 August 1945, Volumes I and II, Page(s)197