Tynemouth Head, Iron Crown

HER Number

14558

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, Iron Crown

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Barque

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1881 wreck of English barque which stranded on the Spanish Battery rocks at Tynemouth on her arrival at the Tyne from Hamburg in ballast. Built in 1862, she was an iron sailing vessel. Built: 1862
Builder: Palmer Builders and Co.
Construction: 2 bulkheads
Official Number: 45,398
Master: J James

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (878418); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Richard and Bridget Larn 1995 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 5, South Devon (AH); R Larn Devon shipwrecks Shipwrecks Page(s)256; Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)60-63; Times 22-OCT-1881, No.30,332 Page(s)12; Parliamentary papers Board of Trade Wreck Report for Iron Crown, No.1151, 1881, accessed via <http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/14697.asp > on 01-JUN-2011