Souter Point, Via
Souter Point, Via
HER Number
15094
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Souter Point, Via
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ46SW
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>
Site Type: Specific
Ketch
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions SSW force 2.
Built: 1870
Master: W Baillie
Crew: 4
Owner: J H Soppit, Sunderland
Built: 1870
Master: W Baillie
Crew: 4
Owner: J H Soppit, Sunderland
Easting
441400
Northing
562000
Grid Reference
NZ441400562000
Sources
National Monuments Record (1313529); 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; United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]