Tynemouth, Wawa

HER Number

14390

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Wawa

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Cutter

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

BRITISH CUTTER, 1878 `Vessel broke from her moorings, went ashore and was wrecked in wind conditions SSW force 8.'

Master: J Morrison
Owner: J Morrison, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1365190); 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)