Tynemouth, Petunia

HER Number:
13984

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Petunia

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ46NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Fishing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Trawler

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
This steam fishing trawler was stopped by a German submarine, her crew forced to abandon ship, after which she was sunk by explosive scuttling charges, 1916, 18 miles E.S.E. of the Tyne. Engines: Screw,3cyl.trip.ex Boilers: 1 Crew Lost: 1

Easting:
4795

Northing:
6976

Grid Reference:
NZ47956976

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1002320); United Kingdom Shipwreck Index; (1990) Lloyd's war losses: the First World War 1914-1918 p46; (1988) British vessels lost at sea 1914-18 and 1939-45; Larn, R & B, (1997) Shipwreck index of the British Isles, Volume 3. The east coast of England: Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Co.Durham, Northumberland, Section 6, County Durham