Tynemouth, Amphitrite

HER Number

14598

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Amphitrite

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH BRIG, wrecked on Tynemouth Rocks in storms 4th January 1854. Crew: 8

Easting

437000

Northing

568900

Grid Reference

NZ437000568900

Sources

National Monuments Record (1316553); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-JAN-1854, No.12414 Page(s)5; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)91-2; 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)