Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Speedwell

HER Number:
15148

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Speedwell

Place:
Whitburn

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brigantine

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1818 wreck of English brigantine which stranded on Whitburn Steel en route from Ipswich to Sunderland in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. The master and his daughter drowned. Master: John Brown Crew: 8 Crew Lost: 1 Passengers: 1 Passengers Lost: 1 Owner: John Brown, Somersham

Easting:
41

Northing:
60

Grid Reference:
NZ4160

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971578); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 10-MAR-1818, No.5261; 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); Stan Jarvis 1990 East Anglia shipwrecks Page(s)22-5; Durham County Advertiser 07-MAR-1818, No.183 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 07-MAR-1818, No.7378 Page(s)4