The Bar, Generous Planter

HER Number

15115

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

The Bar, Generous Planter

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Collier

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1772 wreck of British collier which stranded on the Sparrowhawk and may later have been recovered; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Bruce

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971428); 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); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 08-MAY-1772, No.3773