Tynemouth, Tynemouth Head, Union

HER Number:
14524

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Tynemouth Head, Union

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1831 incident in which an English cargo vessel grounded on the Spanish Battery Rocks during a gale. In ballast from Great Yarmouth, she was a wooden sailing vessel, and was recovered within a few weeks.

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1387144); 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); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 04-FEB-1831, No.6609; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-FEB-1831, No.6613; Durham County Advertiser 04-FEB-1831, No.857 [old series]/31 [new series] Page(s)247; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; Durham County Advertiser 25-FEB-1831, No.860 [old series]/34 [new series] Page(s)271; Newcastle Chronicle 05-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]