Tynemouth, Black Middens, Grafton

HER Number:
14143

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Grafton

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Craft

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
BRITISH CRAFT, 1766 `The GRAFTON, -, from London to Shields, is lost on the Black Middings.' Source (2) states the reporting date of loss in a transposed form, i.e. 13-OCT-1766.

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
(1) Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 31-OCT-1766, No.3212 (2) 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 (3) National Monuments Record (971422)