Spanish Battery, Isabellas

HER Number

14254

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Spanish Battery, Isabellas

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

In January 1843 the ISABELLAS from Sunderland, struck the Spanish Battery rocks and was damaged beyond repair.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

Dick Keys and Ken Smith, 1998, Black Diamonds by Sea - North-East Sailing Colliers 1780-1880, p 26; National Monument Record (1364791)