Black Middens, Friendship

HER Number

14138

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Friendship

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1830 wreck of British craft which stranded on the Black Middens on her arrival at Shields; a wooden sailing vessel. `Shields, 18th Sept. The FRIENDSHIP, Brown, missed stays in entering this harbour 16th instant, struck upon the Black Middings, and is totally wrecked; crew and materials saved.'

Master: Brown

Easting

437000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ437000568000

Sources

Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-SEP-1830, No.6570; 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); Newcastle Chronicle 25-SEP-1830 [via Ian T Spokes]; Durham County Advertiser 24-SEP-1830, No.838 [old style numbering]/12 [new style numbering] Page(s)95 National Monuments Record (1356873)