Black Middens, Liberty

HER Number

14177

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Liberty

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1831 wreck of English craft which stranded on the Black Middens owing to a "sudden gust of wind" on her arrival at Shields from London; a wooden sailing vessel.

Master: Draper

Easting

437000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ437000568000

Sources

Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-NOV-1831, No.6686; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; 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 Chronicle 12-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]; National Monuments Record (1356970)