Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Speedwell
Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Speedwell
HER Number
15148
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Speedwell
Place
Whitburn
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
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
1818 wreck of English brigantine which stranded on Whitburn Steel en route from Ipswich to Sunderland in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. The master and his daughter drowned.
Master: John Brown
Crew: 8
Crew Lost: 1
Passengers: 1
Passengers Lost: 1
Owner: John Brown, Somersham
Master: John Brown
Crew: 8
Crew Lost: 1
Passengers: 1
Passengers Lost: 1
Owner: John Brown, Somersham
Easting
441000
Northing
560000
Grid Reference
NZ441000560000
Sources
National Monuments Record (971578); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 10-MAR-1818, No.5261; 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); Stan Jarvis 1990 East Anglia shipwrecks
Page(s)22-5; Durham County Advertiser 07-MAR-1818, No.183 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 07-MAR-1818, No.7378 Page(s)4
Page(s)22-5; Durham County Advertiser 07-MAR-1818, No.183 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 07-MAR-1818, No.7378 Page(s)4