Tynemouth, Wansworth

Tynemouth, Wansworth

HER Number

12976

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Wansworth

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Wreck

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

A 1754 steamship wrecked on Battery Rocks.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 38