Marsden Bay, Medina

HER Number

14989

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Marsden Bay, Medina

Place

Marsden

Map Sheet

NZ46NW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Having left Hamburg on 19-MAR 1857 in bad weather, this brig arrived off Tynemouth in wind conditions E force 10 and drove ashore N of the Lizard Point at high water, to become a total wreck. Estimated loss on the vessel and cargo 1,300 [sterling].

Built: 1829
Crew: 8

Easting

440000

Northing

565000

Grid Reference

NZ440000565000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1313108); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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