River Tyne, boat hulks

HER Number

11986

District

Gateshead

Site Name

River Tyne, boat hulks

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Wherry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

The remains of at least four boats with various hull elements (and rudders and tillers) scattered over a 100m area of the shoreline. Visible at low tide. Probably the remains of wherries. Preservation is particularly good {1}. These wherries are clinker-built. The 'Keelman' public house has a framed photograph of these boats when complete. Beamish also has a copy of the same photograph {2}.

Easting

416360

Northing

565170

Grid Reference

NZ416360565170

Sources

Pers comm J.P. Cooper, PhD candidate, Southampton University, 2007; Pers comm Ian Whitehead, Maritime Historian, Newcastle University; 'The Last Tyne Wherry - Elswick No. 2', factsheet by Tyne and Wear Museums; Alan Williams and Paddy Taylor, 2009, Foreshore Archaeology on the River Tyne; Alan Williams & Patrick Taylor, 2010 'The Newburn Wherries: remnants of the River Tyne's industrial past' in AA 5 ser. Vol. 39, p401-425; Taylor, P, unpub dissertation, The Newburn Hulks, The Recording Process and Investigation