Tynemouth, Black Middens, Thomas

HER Number:
14227

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Black Middens, Thomas

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Unknown

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1821 wreck of English sloop which stranded on the Black Middens on her arrival at Shields from Kingston-upon-Hull with goods and passengers; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Thompson Passengers: 3 The CHARLES was wrecked on the Black Middens on the same day (Newcastle Courant)

Easting:
37

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3768

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-DEC-1821, No.5652; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)49'; Newcastle Courant 15-DEC-1821, No.7575 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 15-DEC-1821, No.380 Page(s)3; National Monuments Record (1348867)