Tynemouth, Teresa

HER Number

13992

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Teresa

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1856. The brig had sailed from Sunderland the previous day at 5pm in fine weather conditions, with a moderate west breeze. The weather then deteriorated to blow force 10 from the south-west, heavy seas carrying away her deck stanchions and hatch covering boards, so that her pumps could not keep down the water level. Despite having reached the latitude of Hartlepool, she was driven back to a point about three miles east of Tynemouth light, when, after being struck by several particularly heavy seas, she foundered at 2pm.

Built: 1836
Crew: 7

Easting

437290

Northing

569750

Grid Reference

NZ437290569750

Sources

National Monuments Record (1031981), 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 7, Northumberland