The Girt, Kitty

HER Number

14571

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

The Girt, Kitty

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1802 wreck of British sloop which foundered in a very crowded Shields harbour following collision with other vessels, on arrival from Leith with a general cargo. This wooden sailing vessel appears to have been recovered and beached at the Girt, North Shields, for sale.

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971482); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-DEC-1802, No.4305; 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); Newcastle Courant 04-DEC-1802, No.6582 Page(s)4; Tyne Mercury 30-NOV-1802, No.27 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 08-JAN-1803, No.6587 Page(s)1