Tyne and Wear HER(14363): North Shields, Spanish Battery, Alpha - Details
14363
N Tyneside
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Alpha
North Shields
NZ36NE
Maritime Craft
Sailing Vessel
Brig
Early Modern
C19
Wreckage
1814 wreck of English brig which stranded near the Spanish Battery Rocks. Laden with a cargo of wine, rum, sugar, tea and coffee, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Turnbull
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69
NZ3769
National Monuments Record (971546); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 15-MAR-1814, No.4853; 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); Tyne Mercury 15-MAR-1814, No.616 Page(s)3; Newcastle Advertiser 15-MAR-1814, No.1326 Page(s)1; Tyne Mercury 05-APR-1814, No.619 Page(s)1