About 297,000 Winchester chaldrons of coal were shipped in the port of Sunderland in the year 1752. The number of ships loaded in that harbour, principally in coals, were, Coasters 3,424 ; Foreign ports 173, Total 3,597. [LHTB]

 

 

• LHTB — Local Historian's Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences Connected with the Counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham by M.A. Richardson. Published in five volumes in 1844.