Tynemouth, Inverness

HER Number

14518

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Inverness

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1832 wreck of Scottish schooner which stranded on the Spanish Battery Rocks on her departure from Shields. Bound for Inverness with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1362103); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-NOV-1832, No.6794; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59-60; 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); Newcastle Courant 17-NOV-1832, No.8234 Page(s)1; Durham County Advertiser 16-NOV-1832, No.950 Page(s)159