Jarrow Quay, Blessing

HER Number

14981

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Jarrow Quay, Blessing

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

BLESSING of Whitby, capsized at Jarrow Quay, 1756, four boys drowned. (Hodgson)

Crew Lost: 4

Easting

433600

Northing

565747

Grid Reference

NZ433600565747

Sources

National Monuments Record (1312300); George B Hodgson 1904 Wreck register for the north-east coast : a complete list of local shipping disasters from the earliest times to the end of 1902 Page(s)5