Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Dispatch

HER Number

15141

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Whitburn, Whitburn Steel, Dispatch

Place

Whitburn

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1796 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded on Whitburn Steel en route from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Banff, with flour and flax; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

441000

Northing

560000

Grid Reference

NZ441000560000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1392927); Newcastle Courant 17-DEC-1796, No.6271 Page(s)4