North Shields, Spanish Battery, Tyne

HER Number:
14360

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Tyne

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:
1804 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery, bound for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from Southampton with timber; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Wright

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971504); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-NOV-1804, No.4505; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham (CF); Newcastle Advertiser 10-NOV-1804, No.839 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 10-NOV-1804, No.6683 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 17-NOV-1804, No.6684 Page(s)4; Tyne Mercury 13-NOV-1804, No.129 Page(s)3