Spanish Battery, Yarm

HER Number

14362

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Spanish Battery, Yarm

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1828 wreck of English sloop which stranded near the Spanish Battery during a gale, while entering North Shields. On her passage from Whitby in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1357757); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-NOV-1828, No.6376; Newcastle Courant 15-NOV-1828, No.8026 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 15-NOV-1828, No.741 Page(s)3