Tynemouth, Black Middens, Moorsom (Masham, Mashon)

HER Number:
14187

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Moorsom (Masham, Mashon)

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brig

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1831 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Black Middens while running for shelter in Shields harbour during a gale. On her passage from Sunderland, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: William Smith Crew Lost: 2

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunderland and Durham general shipping gazette and mercantile advertiser 05-FEB-1831; Durham County Advertiser 04-FEB-1831, No.857 [old series]/31 [new series] Page(s)247; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 08-FEB-1831, No.6610; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; Newcastle Chronicle 05-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]; National Monuments Record (1047752)