South Shields, Souter Point, M

HER Number:
15048

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Souter Point, M

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ56SW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Vessel foundered and lost in wind conditions NNW force 9, whilst carrying 200 tons of cargo in chequers and bulk, secured only by their own weight. During the gale the M broke her tiller, her stern post was started, her hatches stove in by a heavy sea, so that she became unmanageable and had to be abandoned. Built: 1866 Builder: Menzies Where Built: Groutham Master: R Campbell Crew: 3 Owner: A J Dorman, Stockton-on-Tees

Easting:
41400

Northing:
62000

Grid Reference:
NZ4140062000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1313236); 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 (CF)