South Shields, S.S. Norfolk

HER Number:
12975

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, S.S. Norfolk

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
A steel steamship built in 1880. She came aground near Skelton Beacon in 1908 and was eventually broken up. South Shields Library has a good photo. The NMR describes her as a Norwegian cargo vessel which stranded on the Black Middens in a storm. She had called at Blyth to bunker coal on her passage from Ibiza to Kristiansund with salt, but was forced to seek shelter in the Tyne.

Easting:
42

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ4263

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 35; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham (CF); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)138; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)122; World Wide Web page http://www.skipet.no/1908.pdf accessed and translated from the Norwegian on 17-JAN-2008; National Monuments Record (1001951)