North Shields, Spanish Battery, Success
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Success
HER Number
14358
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
North Shields, Spanish Battery, Success
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
1803 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery on her departure from Shields with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.
Easting
437000
Northing
569000
Grid Reference
NZ437000569000
Sources
National Monuments Record (971491); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list; 22-NOV-1803, No.4404; Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, CountyDurham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham (CF); Newcastle Advertiser 19-NOV-1803, No.788 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 19-NOV-1803, No.6632 Page(s)4; Newcastle Advertiser 26-NOV-1803, No.789 Page(s)1