Sunderland Maritime Heritage

we are a registered charity and sunderland's only maritime heritage organisation our objective is to preserve the artefacts, documents, pictures and the skills of the shipyard workers that contributed to a record of shipbuilding in sunderland from 1346 until 1988 when the last shipyard closed. we think this history of shipbuilding and the ships that were built in sunderland is worth preserving for future generations so that they may preserve the maritime heritage that their city is built upon.