Tynemouth, Enterprise

HER Number

14602

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Enterprise

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

1839 wreck of schooner which stranded on the rocks at Tynemouth after being forced to put back to Shields following her departure from Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Guernsey. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting

437000

Northing

568900

Grid Reference

NZ437000568900

Sources

National Monuments Record (1366634); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-JAN-1854, No.12414 Page(s)5; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)21; 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)