North Shields, Spanish Battery, Laurel (Laureat)
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Laurel (Laureat)
HER Number
14354
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Laurel (Laureat)
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Transport Vessel
Site Type: Specific
Cargo Vessel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
1825 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery following a collision on her arrival at Shields from King's Lynn in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Plowright
Easting
437000
Northing
569000
Grid Reference
NZ437000569000
Sources
National Monuments Record (1360225); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-DEC-1825, No.6070; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)18; Durham County Advertiser 10-DEC-1825, No.588 Page(s)3