1824 wreck of English collier which stranded near Ryhope (Keys and Smith say near Easington); a wooden sailing vessel, which was in ballast at the time. `Sunderland, 24th Dec: On the 22nd instant we had a severe gale from the NE. A great number of light colliers were driven on shore between this place and Hartlepool - report states 16 or 17. The following are the only names yet ascertained, viz. WM AND MARY, Sleigh...of Sunderland...' {Lloyds list 1969}. The master was Sleigh. All the crew were saved. There is another William and Mary which was wrecked off the South Pier in 1823 (HER 14126).

1819 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Ryhope en route from Sunderland to London with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

1812 wreck of English brig which stranded near Ryhope during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel. `The storm of wind from the NE and E which continued during the greater part of last week, increased on Friday to a hurricane, accompanied at intervals with a great fall of snow, hail, and sleet...On Sunday night the violence of the gale abated. The following losses are all that we have yet received any account of...The SALUS, belonging to Mr Thomas Robson, is lost...' {Tyne Mercury
24-MAR-1812, No.513 Page 3}. 'To be sold by auction, in lots (for the benefit of the underwriters) on Wednesday the 1st of April, 1812: the hull, masts, and rigging with the whole of the materials, of the wrecked brig SALUS, of Newcastle, burthen 13 keels of coals, as she now lies stranded on the sand about 3 miles south of Sunderland. Sale to commence at 11 o'clock.' {Tyne Mercury 31-MAR-1812, No.514 Page 3}.

1811 wreck of English brig which stranded at Ryhope en route from Great Yarmouth to Leith. Laden with barley, flax, oil and iron, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Part of the cargo was saved - `FLAX FOR SALE. To be sold by auction (for the benefit of the underwriters) on Tuesday the 31st Dec. inst. on Thornhill's Quay, Sunderland: About 40 tons of Riga flax, wet with salt water, saved from the wreck of the brig PALLAS, of Yarmouth, lost on the 22nd inst. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Sunderland, Dec. 26, 1811' {Newcastle Advertiser 28-DEC-1811, No.1211 Page 3}.

1880 wreck of English brig which stranded near Ryhope in force 9 conditions, while en route from Ramsgate to Shields in ballast. Built of wood, she was a sailing vessel. Built: 1857
Where Built: Dumbarton
Construction: copper fastened
Master: F Flick
Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 1
Owner: W. Kemp jnr, Whitstable

1824 incident in which an English cargo vessel grounded near Ryhope, to be recovered and repaired in Sunderland Harbour a few weeks later. Laden with timber, she was a wooden sailing vessel. `Sunderland, Dec. 23. Yesterday morning the sea rose suddenly, and a tremendous gale came on from the SE...The brig ACORN, of Portsmouth, timber-laden, came on shore near Ryhope; both, it is expected, will be got off.' {Newcastle Courant 25-DEC-1824, No.7733 Page 4}.

FRENCH SCHOONER, lost near Ryhope 1876. Master: L Masson
Crew: 5
Owner: L Masson, Gravelines
Built: 1852

ENGLISH BARQUE, 1854. Stranded due to stress of weather and very much damaged in wind conditions SE force 10. The vessel was finally condemned and sold as a wreck.

1829 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Hendon on attempting to reach Sunderland harbour during a gale. This wooden sailing vessel was in ballast at the time. `On Tuesday night a dreadful storm arose at NE, and several light ships having come to anchor in Sunderland Roads (the greater part of which had cast their ballast) they were consequently placed in the most dangerous situation. In the morning of Wednesday the gale increased and several of the vessels, unable to ride out the storm, even after cutting away their masts, drove on shore either on the rocks near the harbour, or on the sands near Hendon. Therefore before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the shore presented the melancholy spectacle of 13 stranded vessels - some went to pieces immediately...Happily, up to this period no lives were lost...The beach is covered with wreck and wrecked materials...FRIENDS, BLAGDON, CALEDONIA, SYREN, JAMES, IRIS, of Harwich, ELEANOR, PHOENIX, MARGARET, of Sunderland, and ADRIATIC of Shields, gone to pieces...' {Durham County Advertiser 17-OCT-1829, No.789 Page 3}.

1807 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded near Hendon in a gale, in attempting to enter Shields from Sunderland; a wooden sailing vessel. `The sloop PEGGY, Wood, of Limekilns, sailed from Sunderland yesterday se'nnight, and was driven back on Sunday morning in the gale, and in attempting to come into Shields harbour, went on shore near Hendon, where she now lies wrecked. The crew were taken out in a coble.' {Newcastle Courant 21-MAR-1807, No.6806 Page 4}.