I've also just looked up about The Carrick - great shame - I see that she was built in Sunderland.

Where I live, the salt marshes are full of the skeletal remains of boats and ships, that were clearly just grounded and left ... and left... Occasionally, you will see a row of timbers sticking out of the mudflats - or, rarer, there will be a collapse of turf, which will show the outline of the vessel which was once there. It is quite a thing to see - incredibly sad, but very atmospheric. A graveyard.