Souter Point, Tophill

HER Number

15052

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Souter Point, Tophill

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ56SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Run down off Souter Point by the Blyth-registered sailing vessel WIDRINGDON. The crew of the TOPHILL took to their own boat as she was sinking, and were subsequently towed into Shields, 1852.

Master: Gibb

Easting

441400

Northing

562000

Grid Reference

NZ441400562000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1362417); 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)