North Shields, Bill Point, Bilboa

HER Number:
14404

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Bill Point, Bilboa

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brig

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1816 incident in which an English brig foundered off Bill Point with her cargo of coal, but was recovered a few weeks later. She was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
36

Northing:
68

Grid Reference:
NZ3668

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-DEC-1816, No.5134; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, Appendix 7 17 Page(s)284; Durham County Advertiser 21-DEC-1816, No.120 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 18-JAN-1817, No.7319 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 01-FEB-1817, No.7321 Page(s)4; National Monuments Record (971566)