Tynemouth, Black Middens, Content

HER Number:
14129

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Content

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1798 wreck of British cargo vessel which stranded on the Black Middens; a wooden sailing vessel. `To be sold by auction, for the benefit of the underwriters, on Friday the 16th November 1798, on the Low Lights Quay: All the materials of the ship CONTENT, burthen 19 keels of coals, or thereabouts, lately stranded on the Black Middens, consisting of anchors, kedges, cables, sails, hawsers, towlings [sic], warps, guns, boats, topmasts, yards, topmast and running rigging - with sundry other articles. The sale to begin at 10 o'clock in the morning.'

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Newcastle Courant 17-NOV-1798, No.6371 p2, National Monuments Record (1393462)