South Shields, S.S. Norfolk

HER Number

12975

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

South Shields, S.S. Norfolk

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

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 steel steamship built in 1880. She came aground near Skelton Beacon in 1908 and was eventually broken up. South Shields Library has a good photo. The NMR describes her as a Norwegian cargo vessel which stranded on the Black Middens in a storm. She had called at Blyth to bunker coal on her passage from Ibiza to Kristiansund with salt, but was forced to seek shelter in the Tyne.

Easting

442000

Northing

563000

Grid Reference

NZ442000563000

Sources

Peter Collings, 1991, The New Divers Guide to the North-East Coast, page 35; 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); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)138; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)122; World Wide Web page http://www.skipet.no/1908.pdf accessed and translated from the Norwegian on 17-JAN-2008; National Monuments Record (1001951)