Black Middens, Knud

HER Number

12968

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Knud

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

A Danish cargo vessel of 1022 tons. She sank on 20th November 1902 outside South Shields after colliding with the steamer Swale Dale. Eight people died (Collings). 1022T Steamship sunk as a result of a collision outside South Shields on 20th November 1902. NMR states loss just off the Black Middens following a collision on her departure from South Shields for Gandia with coal and coke. Constructed of iron in 1871.

Easting

437000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ437000568000

Sources

Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 33; Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project; National Monuments Record (1001916); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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 (CF); World Wide Web http://bookit.bibits.no/services/servlets/services.servlets.ResourceDb?data_source=jdbc/bookit12&res_id=362 accessed and translated from the Danish on 22-NOV-2007