Marsden Bay, Medina

HER Number:
14989

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden Bay, Medina

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ46NW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brigantine

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Having left Hamburg on 19-MAR 1857 in bad weather, this brig arrived off Tynemouth in wind conditions E force 10 and drove ashore N of the Lizard Point at high water, to become a total wreck. Estimated loss on the vessel and cargo 1,300 [sterling]. Built: 1829 Crew: 8

Easting:
40

Northing:
65

Grid Reference:
NZ4065

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1313108); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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