Tynemouth, Enterprise

HER Number:
14602

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Enterprise

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:
1839 wreck of schooner which stranded on the rocks at Tynemouth after being forced to put back to Shields following her departure from Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Guernsey. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting:
37000

Northing:
68900

Grid Reference:
NZ3700068900

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1366634); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-JAN-1854, No.12414 Page(s)5; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)21; 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)