Tynemouth, Telegraph (Telegraaf)

HER Number

14632

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Telegraph (Telegraaf)

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Galliot

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1825 wreck of Dutch galliot which stranded under Tynemouth Castle following a collision during a gale. En route from Bremen to North Shields, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Cassboom

Easting

437000

Northing

568900

Grid Reference

NZ437000568900

Sources

National Monuments Record (1360229); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-DEC-1825, No.6070; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 20-DEC-1825, No.6074; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)18