Black Middens, Cadiz Packet

HER Number

14037

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Cadiz Packet

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Packet

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1811 wreck of English packet which stranded on the Black Middens during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel. `The CADIZ PACKET, of Newcastle; TELEMACHUS...and GOODINTENT...were driven on shore 31st ult. near Tynemouth, but it is expected will be got off.' (1)

`The CADIZ PACKET, went to pieces on the Black Meddings, 9th inst.' (2)

`In the gale of the 31st ult. mentioned in our last the ship CADIZ PACKET, of Newcastle, was thrown upon the Black Middings, at Tynemouth...' (4)

`Sunday last...Same night, the CADIZ PACKET went to pieces on the Black Middings...' (5)

Easting

437090

Northing

568800

Grid Reference

NZ437090568800

Sources

(1) Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 12-FEB-1811, No.4536

(2) Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 19-FEB-1811, No.4538
(3) 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)

(4) Newcastle Courant 09-FEB-1811, No.7009 Page(s)4

(5) Newcastle Courant 16-FEB-1811, No.7010 Page(s)4

(6) National Monuments Record (971522)