Tynemouth, Inverness

HER Number:
14518

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Inverness

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Schooner

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1832 wreck of Scottish schooner which stranded on the Spanish Battery Rocks on her departure from Shields. Bound for Inverness with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1362103); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-NOV-1832, No.6794; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59-60; 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 Courant 17-NOV-1832, No.8234 Page(s)1; Durham County Advertiser 16-NOV-1832, No.950 Page(s)159