Whitley Bay, O Lovely Nellie (Lovely Nellie, Lovely Nelly)

HER Number:
14638

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitley Bay, O Lovely Nellie (Lovely Nellie, Lovely Nelly)

Place:
Whitley Bay

Map Sheet:
NZ37SE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Snow

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1861 wreck of English snow which stranded on Whitley Rocks while carrying a cargo of coal. Built in 1804, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Built: 1804 Crew: 7 Crew Lost: 1

Easting:
35500

Northing:
73000

Grid Reference:
NZ3550073000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1031995); United Kingdom shipwreck index; 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 Sections 5 & 7