Black Middens, Faithful
Black Middens, Faithful
HER Number
14137
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Black Middens, Faithful
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Barque
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions S x W force 6.
The 17th Annual Meeting, held in the Brigade House on Tuesday, 23rd August, 1881, is reported in the Shields Gazette. Here is a portion of the Secretary's report.
"...On 7th February, the guns have the alarm [sic], at a few minutes before 6 o'clock, in the evening. A schooner, which proved to be the FAITHFUL, was ashore on the Black Midden rocks. A large number of the Brigade speedily mustered, and a rocket was fired, and a line sent on board, which was made fast by the crew, but the lifeboat TOM PERRY coming alongside, the crew got into her and were brought ashore."
Built: 1830
Where Built: Sunderland
Master: J Colthorpe
Crew: 7
Owner: E Peck & Co., Ipswich
Construction: 3 masts
The 17th Annual Meeting, held in the Brigade House on Tuesday, 23rd August, 1881, is reported in the Shields Gazette. Here is a portion of the Secretary's report.
"...On 7th February, the guns have the alarm [sic], at a few minutes before 6 o'clock, in the evening. A schooner, which proved to be the FAITHFUL, was ashore on the Black Midden rocks. A large number of the Brigade speedily mustered, and a rocket was fired, and a line sent on board, which was made fast by the crew, but the lifeboat TOM PERRY coming alongside, the crew got into her and were brought ashore."
Built: 1830
Where Built: Sunderland
Master: J Colthorpe
Crew: 7
Owner: E Peck & Co., Ipswich
Construction: 3 masts
Easting
437000
Northing
568000
Grid Reference
NZ437000568000
Sources
United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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); Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)58-9; National Monuments Record (997134)