Souter Point, Fancy Lass
Souter Point, Fancy Lass
HER Number
15082
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Souter Point, Fancy Lass
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Schooner
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
This vessel was driven on a lee shore during one of the hardest gales, E force 10-11, squally with rain, ever known on this coast. She went ashore at 3pm, at high water, and became an immediate total wreck.Cargo unknown.
Lost: 1852
Built: 1833
Master: Cole
Crew: 6
Crew Lost: 6
Lost: 1852
Built: 1833
Master: Cole
Crew: 6
Crew Lost: 6
Easting
441400
Northing
562000
Grid Reference
NZ441400562000
Sources
National Monuments Record (1312977); United Kingdom shipwreck index; 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