Spanish Battery, Alpha

HER Number

14363

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Spanish Battery, Alpha

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1814 wreck of English brig which stranded near the Spanish Battery Rocks. Laden with a cargo of wine, rum, sugar, tea and coffee, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Turnbull

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971546); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 15-MAR-1814, No.4853; 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); Tyne Mercury 15-MAR-1814, No.616 Page(s)3; Newcastle Advertiser 15-MAR-1814, No.1326 Page(s)1; Tyne Mercury 05-APR-1814, No.619 Page(s)1