Black Middens, Ann
Black Middens, Ann
HER Number
14026
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Black Middens, Ann
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Brigantine
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
1809 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Black Middens during a gale. The ANN, -, coal laden, and ATLAS, -, both of Sunderland, were wrecked 12th inst. near Shields.'
The NMR has another entry for ANN (NZ 37 SE 61) a 1809 wreck of English brig which capsized and stranded north of Cullercoats, after her ballast shifted on her passage from London to Shields; a wooden sailing vessel, presumably the same vessel.
The NMR has another entry for ANN (NZ 37 SE 61) a 1809 wreck of English brig which capsized and stranded north of Cullercoats, after her ballast shifted on her passage from London to Shields; a wooden sailing vessel, presumably the same vessel.
Easting
437090
Northing
568800
Grid Reference
NZ437090568800
Sources
National Monuments Record (971509 and 971508), Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 26-DEC-1809, No.4417, 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 (CF), Newcastle Advertiser 23-DEC-1809, No.1106 Page(s)4, Newcastle Courant 23-DEC-1809, No.6950 Page(s)1, 4