Tynemouth, Comet

HER Number

13989

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Comet

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ46NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1860. Having left South Shields three days earlier, the Scottish Sloop sprang a leak in wind conditions NW force 9 and foundered at 5am. The loss was attributed to `stress of weather.' 20 miles east of Tynemouth Castle

Built: 1835
Crew: 4

Easting

447950

Northing

569760

Grid Reference

NZ447950569760

Sources

National Monuments Record (1313135), United Kingdom Shipwreck Index, 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