Whitburn, Hearts of Oak

HER Number

14675

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whitburn, Hearts of Oak

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

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

1831 wreck of English sloop or barge which stranded 3 miles north of the Wear [or some distance north of Whitburn], while bound for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Laden with planks, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Tossal

Easting

441000

Northing

560000

Grid Reference

NZ441000560000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1312927); 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); Sunderland and Durham general shipping gazette and mercantile advertiser 07-OCT-1831; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-OCT-1831, No.6680; Durham County Advertiser 07-OCT-1831, No.892 [old series]/66 [new series] Page(s)111