Tynemouth Head, Union

HER Number

14524

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, Union

Place

Tynemouth

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

1831 incident in which an English cargo vessel grounded on the Spanish Battery Rocks during a gale. In ballast from Great Yarmouth, she was a wooden sailing vessel, and was recovered within a few weeks.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1387144); 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); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 04-FEB-1831, No.6609; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-FEB-1831, No.6613; Durham County Advertiser 04-FEB-1831, No.857 [old series]/31 [new series] Page(s)247; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; Durham County Advertiser 25-FEB-1831, No.860 [old series]/34 [new series] Page(s)271; Newcastle Chronicle 05-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]