Tynemouth, Tynemouth Head, John

HER Number:
14559

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Tynemouth Head, John

Place:
Tynemouth

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:
1810 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded among the Spanish Battery Rocks, on her passage in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971514); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-DEC-1810, No.4521; 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 15-DEC-1810, No.7001 Page(s)4