Sunderland Maritime Heritage

Sunderland Maritime Heritage is a registered charity dedicated to preserving the shipbuilding skills and history of the City of Sunderland.

We promote and maintain Sunderland’s maritime history through the use of an interactive visitor centre demonstrating the crafts, skills and trades associated with one of the greatest ship and boatbuilding centres of the last century.

We are especially proud of 1/10th model of the HMS Venerable built in wood from the original ship plans. On site we are also working on a navy cutter and a sheltie skiff - and even building a wooden boat from scratch to pass on these skills.