Tynemouth, Black Middens, Peggy

HER Number:
14191

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Peggy

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Schooner

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1891 wreck of British schooner which stranded on the Black Middens on leaving the Tyne for Gravesend with coal; a wooden sailing vessel. Lifeboats BEDFORD and JAMES YOUNG launched, services not required. (Crew of PEGGY rescued by Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade.) Master: Sedders Crew: 5

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)130; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)86-8; National Monument Record (1365416)