Marsden, Wheatall Point, Princess Ebbe
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 <By Form/Type>
Site Type: Specific
Ketch
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
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
Master: R Buthlay
Crew: 3
Owner: G Ross, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire
Easting
441620
Northing
562830
Grid Reference
NZ441620562830
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]