North Shields, May Flower
North Shields, May Flower
HER Number
14423
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
North Shields, May Flower
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>
Site Type: Specific
Lugger
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
ENGLISH LUGGER, 1881 Vessel foundered and lost off Shields Bar in wind conditions NE force 7.
Master: S Swanson
Crew: 2
Crew Lost: 2
Owner: R Dempster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Master: S Swanson
Crew: 2
Crew Lost: 2
Owner: R Dempster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Easting
436000
Northing
568000
Grid Reference
NZ436000568000
Sources
National Monuments Record (997154); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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 (CF)