Tynemouth, Eliza

HER Number

14601

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Eliza

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

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

SCOTTISH SCHOONER, wrecked on Tynemouth Rocks during the gales January 3rd-10th 1854. Crew: 4
Crew Lost: 4

Easting

437000

Northing

568900

Grid Reference

NZ437000568900

Sources

National Monuments Record (1316462); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-JAN-1854, No.12414 Page(s)5; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)91; 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)