Tynemouth, Marmaduke

HER Number

14510

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Marmaduke

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Collier

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1782 wreck of British collier which stranded south of Tynemouth en route from Bridlington to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Brown. Part of a group of 25 light colliers caught in gail which drove on shore the PEGGY (HER 14511), GOOD INTENT (HER 14509), and MARMADUKE.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1387941); Newcastle Courant 09-NOV-1782, No.5535 Page(s)4