Tynemouth, Black Middens, Liberty

HER Number:
14177

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Liberty

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1831 wreck of English craft which stranded on the Black Middens owing to a "sudden gust of wind" on her arrival at Shields from London; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Draper

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-NOV-1831, No.6686; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; 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 12-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]; National Monuments Record (1356970)