Tynemouth Head, John

HER Number

14559

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, John

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

1810 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded among the Spanish Battery Rocks, on her passage in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971514); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-DEC-1810, No.4521; 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 15-DEC-1810, No.7001 Page(s)4