Tynemouth, Petunia

HER Number

13984

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Petunia

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ46NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Fishing Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Trawler

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

First World War 1914 to 1918

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

This steam fishing trawler was stopped by a German submarine, her crew forced to abandon ship, after which she was sunk by explosive scuttling charges, 1916, 18 miles E.S.E. of the Tyne.

Engines: Screw,3cyl.trip.ex
Boilers: 1
Crew Lost: 1

Easting

447950

Northing

569760

Grid Reference

NZ447950569760

Sources

National Monuments Record (1002320); United Kingdom Shipwreck Index; (1990) Lloyd's war losses: the First World War 1914-1918 p46; (1988) British vessels lost at sea 1914-18 and 1939-45; Larn, R & B, (1997) Shipwreck index of the British Isles, Volume 3. The east coast of England: Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Co.Durham, Northumberland, Section 6, County Durham