Tynemouth, Sparrowhawk, Wheatsheaf (Wheat Sheaf)

HER Number

14573

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Sparrowhawk, Wheatsheaf (Wheat Sheaf)

Place

Tynemouth

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

1817 wreck of English sloop which was beached on the Sparrowhawk after springing a leak on her departure from North Shields and being forced to return; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Douglas

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971572); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 14-OCT-1817, No.5220; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)45; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817 Appendix 7 17 Page(s)289 (669); Newcastle Courant 18-OCT-1817, No.7358 Page(s)4