Whitley Bay, O Lovely Nellie (Lovely Nellie, Lovely Nelly)
Whitley Bay, O Lovely Nellie (Lovely Nellie, Lovely Nelly)
HER Number
14638
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Whitley Bay, O Lovely Nellie (Lovely Nellie, Lovely Nelly)
Place
Whitley Bay
Map Sheet
NZ37SE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Snow
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
1861 wreck of English snow which stranded on Whitley Rocks while carrying a cargo of coal. Built in 1804, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Built: 1804
Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 1
Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 1
Easting
435500
Northing
573000
Grid Reference
NZ435500573000
Sources
National Monuments Record (1031995); United Kingdom shipwreck index; 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 Sections 5 & 7