Black Middens, Grafton

Black Middens, Grafton

HER Number
14143
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Black Middens, Grafton
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Specific
Craft
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
BRITISH CRAFT, 1766 `The GRAFTON, -, from London to Shields, is lost on the Black Middings.'

Source (2) states the reporting date of loss in a transposed form, i.e. 13-OCT-1766.
Easting
437000
Northing
568000
Grid Reference
NZ437000568000
Sources
(1) Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 31-OCT-1766, No.3212

(2) 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

(3) National Monuments Record (971422)