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13802


N Tyneside


Tynemouth, Longbird


Tynemouth



Maritime Craft


Transport Vessel


Cargo Vessel


Modern


C20


Wreckage


Longbird, built in 1919 by Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd at Middlesbrough. On 16 January 1943, the Longbird was on passage from the River Clyde for Hull with a cargo of vegetables and rape-seed when she foundered and was lost following a collision with another vessel, some ten miles NE of the Tyne North Pier.


49


79


NZ4979



Young, R. (2001) Comprehensive guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast (The): Volume Two, Tempus, Gloucestershire. p. 183, Source: Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project, National Monuments Record

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