Black Middens, Moorsom (Masham, Mashon)
Black Middens, Moorsom (Masham, Mashon)
HER Number
14187
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Black Middens, Moorsom (Masham, Mashon)
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Brig
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
1831 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Black Middens while running for shelter in Shields harbour during a gale. On her passage from Sunderland, she was a wooden sailing vessel.
Master: William Smith
Crew Lost: 2
Master: William Smith
Crew Lost: 2
Easting
437000
Northing
568000
Grid Reference
NZ437000568000
Sources
Sunderland and Durham general shipping gazette and mercantile advertiser 05-FEB-1831; Durham County Advertiser 04-FEB-1831, No.857 [old series]/31 [new series] Page(s)247; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 08-FEB-1831, No.6610; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; Newcastle Chronicle 05-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]; National Monuments Record (1047752)