Bill Quay, Friends

HER Number

14020

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Bill Quay, Friends

Place

Bill Quay

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Craft lost 1831, `Shields, 24 Feb...of Newcastle, fell over and sunk at Bill Quay, 21st instant.'

Easting

436770

Northing

568360

Grid Reference

NZ436770568360

Sources

National Monuments Record (1312948), Durham Advertiser 04-MAR-1831, Richard and Bridget Larn 1997 Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 3. The east coast of England : Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, County Durham, Northumberland Section 6, County Durham, Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-MAR-1831, No.6616