Tynemouth, Friends

HER Number

14485

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Friends

Place

Tynemouth

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

1833 wreck of Scottish cargo vessel, which stranded near the Spanish Battery on putting in a Shields harbour. En route from Montrose to London, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Youngson. The ST NINIAN (HER 14488), Scotland, from Newry, the KEITH STEWARD (HER 14487) from Perth, and the FRIENDS from Montrose, all bound to London, in putting in here, were driven on the rocks and are totally lost with their cargoes. The crews were saved.

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1358899); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 22-JAN-1833, No.6814; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1833, Appendix 7 17 Page(s)298 (678); Newcastle Courant 26-JAN-1833, No. 8244 Page(s)4