Cullercoats, Browns Point, Warkworth Castle

HER Number:
13958

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Cullercoats, Browns Point, Warkworth Castle

Place:
Cullercoats

Map Sheet:
NZ37SE

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:
An English cargo vessel which ran aground at Browns Point 16th November 1876, in wind conditions variable force 2, while en route from London to the Tyne in ballast; a steam vessel built of iron at Sunderland in 1871. Builder: Pile Where Built: Sunderland Propulsion: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine Boilers: 1 HP: 120 Machinery: T Clark & Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne Construction: 2 decks; 5 bulkheads Master: W Smith Crew: 20 Passengers Owner: G Cleugh, North Shields

Easting:
436700

Northing:
571500

Grid Reference:
NZ436700571500

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ian T. Spokes Wreck Database, Inga Project, National Monuments Record (1370834); 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