Tynemouth, Active

HER Number

13996

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Active

Place

Tynemouth

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Ketch

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Scottish Ketch, foundered and lost following collision with the SS BROMSGROVE, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1912, 4 miles off Tynemouth.

Built: 1886
Crew: 4
Crew Lost: 1
Passengers: 1

Easting

445000

Northing

570000

Grid Reference

NZ445000570000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1313697), 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