1917 wreck of Norwegian schooner which stranded on Marsden Rock en route from Gothenburg or Halden for the Tyne with pit props. She was a sailing vessel, but it is unclear whether she was constructed of wood or of steel. She may have had an auxiliary motor engine fitted. Built: c.1900
Builder: J Ring Andersen
Where Built: Svendborg
Propulsion: sail, possibly auxiliary motor engine?
Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 1

Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions ESE force 10, 1901. This brig had previously been registered at Caernarvon, but the registration was cancelled in 1901.
Built: 1875
Builder: Roberts
Where Built: Pwllheli
Master: D W Davis
Crew: 7
Passengers: 1
Owner: D Jones, Portmadoc

A worked stone of the Roman period, dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries. Found circa 2005.
The stone depicts a probably female head in the Romano-British style, with a head on a neck in relief on a rectangular base. There is no background panel behind the head, with the upper figural portion being sub-triangular in shape with a flat(ish) front face and a gently sloping reverse. The face is relatively flat with eyes and nose in low relief on a U-shaped head in very stark relief. Damage below the nose has removed the mouth to the jaw. The stone has weathered, but there is some evidence for defined ears that have not survived. Hair separated into locks or strands by incised/pecked lines runs from the top of the head and down the reverse of the stone for about 100mm. The hair runs longer down the left face of the stone. The base bears two horizontal inscribed lines on the left upper quarter of the panel. These may indicate an arm or wrist, with traces for the hand lost to weathering. Linear tooling on the underside or bottom face indicates that the stone remains fully intact.
The overall surface of the stone has suffered from weathering, probably mostly from ancient times before deposition, and to a lesser extent following its recovery.
The stone is sandstone.
This is a find of note and has been designated: Potential for inclusion in Britannia. Height: 412 mm
Width: 340 mm
Thickness: 200 mm
Dated C2-C3.

From the Shields Gazette, Wednesday 6th June 1869.
"The north-east coast was visited last night by a storm of the most terrible and violent character, the consequences of which, both to life and property, are very disastrous. The storm raged with greater violence than any which has occurred for many years...The gale commenced at about 8 o'clock, at which time the wind was blowing from the north-east with great force, which gradually increased until it reached, about 10 o'clock, a terrible height. The sea rose in proportion to the wind, and became very strong. The waves rolled extremely high, and lashed with great force over both piers...Information came to South Shields that a casualty had occurred at Manhaven, a small bay close to Marsden Bay. The South Shields Life Brigade sent a detachment of men and equipment to this spot to see what could be done. The lifeboat soon returned with intelligence that a small schooner, which later proved to be the ANNIE of Rye, which was being towed south by the tug ROBERT POW, when the tow rope broke, and the schooner drifted ashore at Manhaven. Before she went to pieces, six of her seven-man crew were saved by the South Shields Life Brigade; the seventh man was washed overboard, but managed to swim ashore." ' (Whitaker)
Crew: 7

Tug foundered following collision at the mouth of the Tyne with Napier Star, she sunk with the loss of three lives. She was subsequently refloated with a floating crane and beached at Jarrow Slake. 1931.
Built: 1877
Propulsion: Paddle driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Crew Lost: 3

BLESSING of Whitby, capsized at Jarrow Quay, 1756, four boys drowned. (Hodgson)
Crew Lost: 4

A three masted schooner, from Laurvig to Shields (pit props), parted towline and came ashore inside South Pier during a hurricane from northward at 2.30pm; crew saved by apparatus; vessel will become a wreck. (Lloyd's) Crew: 7
Passengers: 1

Driven from her moorings by the tide in the river, struck on the stones of the Bar and rolled over on her beam ends at 9pm, on the half ebb, 1852.
Built: 1851
Master: Gibson
Crew: 13
Crew Lost: 2

1793 wreck of Dutch cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand en route from Dram to Amsterdam with deals. Crew Lost: 2 NB: At this period the appellation "Norway ship" does not refer to the nationality of the vessel, but rather to the kind of trade for which she was designed. The name YONGFROW and variants thereof indicates Dutch nationality, as does the word "yuffer", which is of Dutch origin.

These reports, however, may represent an alternative version of the loss of a Danish vessel (q.v.) in a similar area at approximately the same date.

Three vessels were destoyed in gales on the 27th and 28th of October 1880.

[Quoted from the Shields Gazette of 30.10.1880]

"Soon after the loss of the schooner JOHANNA at about 8.20, the signal guns again announced a vessel in distress, the men of the Tynemouth and South Shields Volunteer Life Brigades observed a wooden trawler, later proved to be the WONGA, entering the harbour close to the North Pier end. In an instant she was struck by a heavy sea, turned bottom up, then sank, all on board perished." (Whitaker) Built: 1875
Propulsion: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Boilers: 1
Master: J Potten
Crew: 6
Crew Lost: 6
Owner: J Hunter & Percy Main, New Zealand