Whitley Bay, Mermaid

HER Number

13894

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Whitley Bay, Mermaid

Place

Whitley Bay

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1903 wreck of Scottish schooner which foundered 5 miles NE of St. Mary’s Island 27th November 1903. St. Mary's Island following a collision. This wooden sailing vessel, built in 1871, was en route from the River Tyne to the Orkney Islands with coal.

Easting

437340

Northing

575300

Grid Reference

NZ437340575300

Sources

Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database; National Monuments Record (1372681); 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 7, Northumberland