Souter Point, Echo

HER Number

15081

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Souter Point, Echo

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1853, English brig, missed her stays at Souter Point and drove ashore.
Crew- 6

Easting

441400

Northing

562000

Grid Reference

NZ441400562000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1387517); 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