Marsden, Wheatall Point, Princess Ebbe

HER Number:
15131

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden, Wheatall Point, Princess Ebbe

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Ketch

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1900 wreck of Scottish ketch which stranded at Wheatall Point en route from Bonar Bridge to Sunderland with railway sleepers. Constructed of wood in 1886, she was a sailing vessel. Built: 1886 Master: R Buthlay Crew: 3 Owner: G Ross, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire

Easting:
4162

Northing:
6283

Grid Reference:
NZ41626283

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1001891); 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); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]