Tynemouth, HM MMS 180

HER Number

13964

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, HM MMS 180

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ46NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Warship

Site Type: Specific

Minesweeper

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

An Admiralty Motor mine-sweeper with twenty crew and an armament of two no.5 machine guns. On 13th February 1942, only two weeks after she was completed she was rammed in a convoy and foundered off the mouth of the River Tyne.

Easting

445600

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ445600567300

Sources

Young, R. (2001) Comprehensive guide to Shipwrecks of the North East Coast (The): Volume Two, Tempus, Gloucestershire. p. 128; National Monuments Record (908735); Hydrographic Office wreck index; 1988 British vessels lost at sea 1914-18 and 1939-45 Section III Page(s)19