Tynemouth Head, Lark

HER Number

14560

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, Lark

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1823 wreck of English sloop which stranded on the Spanish Battery Rocks on entering Shields during a snowstorm. Bound from London in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Construction: 1 mast
Master: Shepherd
Crew: 5

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971632); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list; 11-FEB-1823, No.5776; Newcastle Courant 15-FEB-1823, No.7636 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 15-FEB-1823, No.441 Page(s)3; Durham County Advertiser 22-FEB-1823, No.442 Page(s)3