Spanish Battery, Venerable

HER Number

14361

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Spanish Battery, Venerable

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1800 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery on entering Shields in ballast, during a gale; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Hedley

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971471); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-JAN-1800, No.4013; Newcastle Courant 04-JAN-1800, No.6430 Page(s)4; Newcastle Advertiser 11-JAN-1800, No.587 Page(s)2; Newcastle Chronicle 11-JAN-1800 [via Ian T Spokes]