North Shields, Spanish Battery, Success

HER Number:
14358

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Success

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1803 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery on her departure from Shields with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971491); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list; 22-NOV-1803, No.4404; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, CountyDurham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham (CF); Newcastle Advertiser 19-NOV-1803, No.788 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 19-NOV-1803, No.6632 Page(s)4; Newcastle Advertiser 26-NOV-1803, No.789 Page(s)1