19th February 1828 wreck of English schooner (from Wisbeach) which stranded behind the South Pier at Sunderland, having been abandoned after springing a leak. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel. The crew was saved.

1812 wreck of Scottish sloop (from Banff) which stranded behind the South Pier while calling at Sunderland, en route from Peterhead to London with dried fish; a wooden sailing vessel.

`As the brig CLARA, of Sunderland, was attempting to enter that port yesterday, she was driven by the strong surf, behind the breakwater of the South Pier, where she has since gone to pieces. She was a fine new vessel, and was returning from her second or third voyage, when this unfortunate accident occurred.' {Durham County Advertiser 26-JUN-1830, No.825 Page 3}.
Built: 1829 - 30. Wrecked in 1830.

30th November 1825 wreck of English craft from Shields which stranded behind the South Pier at Sunderland during a gale; a wooden sailing vessel.

1841 wreck of English tug which stranded behind the South Pier on Sunderland Beach after a collision with an ice floe which broke several ships from their moorings at Sunderland itself. Constructed of wood, she was a paddle steamer. A contemporary description of the incident is as follows: 'For some time previous the river had been frozen over in various places above Sunderland harbour. The frost continued until Saturday the 16th, when a thaw commenced, the wind being then from S to SW. On that and the following day great quantities of rain fell, by which the river was much swollen and the ice loosened before any considerable portion of it had time to be dissolved with the thaw; the consequence was, that several floating fields of ice were carried down the river, at succeeding intervals, during the ebb tides of Saturday and Sunday, until it arrived at...the high end of Sunderland harbour, where the progress of the ice was stopped. On Sunday afternoon the Wear above Sunderland bridge presented one sheet of ice, as far as the eye could reach...very soon the rain came down in torrents; the river rose rapidly, and the pressure of the ice, urged on by the flood, carried away some ships...about midnight, large pieces, several inches in thickness, that had covered the river some miles above, were observed to be floating down past Hylton...This continued till about four in the morning, when the barrier of ice formed below Pallion yielded to the increasing pressure of the water, and the mingled torrent rushing down with irresistible force, tore away whole tiers of ships from their moorings...When morning broke, it revealed such a picture of havoc as only such a night could have made...the steam tugs - SAFETY, HARE, EARL OF DURHAM, GEORGE AND ANN, and NEPTUNE, were either sunk, wrecked or missing...' {M A Richardson 1846}.

1817 wreck of English brig (from Weymouth) which stranded following a collision with the South Pier on her arrival at Sunderland; a wooden sailing vessel.

20th December 1817 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded behind the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel. The Master was Robinson. The crew was saved.

1830 wreck of English sloop which was driven out of Sunderland harbour in a flood brought on by a gale to strand behind the South Pier; a wooden sailing vessel. Newspaper reported that the ALBANY, ST. ALBANS and DASHER were wrecked in the same storm at the same place.

1827 wreck of English brig which stranded behind the South Pier after grounding on the bar on her departure from Sunderland. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Wrecked on 17th January 1827. The crew was saved.

1823 wreck of English cargo vessel (from Scarborough) which stranded behind the South Pier on attempting to enter Sunderland, presumably for shelter during a gale, since she was laden with coal [normally exported from, not into Sunderland]; a wooden sailing vessel. The crew was saved. The BRITANNIA, WILLIAM and MARY and the BETTY and NELLY were wrecked in the same storm on 8 February 1823.