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14253


N Tyneside


Tynemouth, Black Middens, Percy


Tynemouth


NZ36NE


Maritime Craft


Sailing Vessel


Snow


Early Modern


C19


Wreckage


In January 1843 the SNOW Percy was entering South Shields from London when she was wrecked on Black Middens Rocks and began to break up. Her master, Captain Hair, the ship's boy and the cook, tried to swim ashore but were drowned. The rest of the crew were saved by a seaman, William Wheeler, in his boat.


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NZ3768



Dick Keys and Ken Smith, 1998, Black Diamonds by Sea - North-East Sailing Colliers 1780-1880, p 26

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