Tynemouth, Sparrowhawk, Wheatsheaf (Wheat Sheaf)

HER Number:
14573

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Sparrowhawk, Wheatsheaf (Wheat Sheaf)

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1817 wreck of English sloop which was beached on the Sparrowhawk after springing a leak on her departure from North Shields and being forced to return; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Douglas

Easting:
37

Northing:
69

Grid Reference:
NZ3769

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971572); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 14-OCT-1817, No.5220; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)45; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page(s)289 (669); Newcastle Courant 18-OCT-1817, No.7358 Page(s)4