Tynemouth, HM MMS 180

HER Number:
13964

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, HM MMS 180

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ46NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Warship

Site Type: Specific:
Minesweeper

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
An Admiralty Motor mine-sweeper with twenty crew and an armament of two no.5 machine guns. On 13th February 1942, only two weeks after she was completed she was rammed in a convoy and foundered off the mouth of the River Tyne.

Easting:
456

Northing:
673

Grid Reference:
NZ456673

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Young, R. (2001) Comprehensive guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast (The): Volume Two, Tempus, Gloucestershire. p. 128; National Monuments Record (908735); Hydrographic Office wreck index; 1988 British vessels lost at sea 1914-18 and 1939-45 Section III Page(s)19