Black Middens, Peggy

HER Number

14191

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Peggy

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1891 wreck of British schooner which stranded on the Black Middens on leaving the Tyne for Gravesend with coal; a wooden sailing vessel. Lifeboats BEDFORD and JAMES YOUNG launched, services not required. (Crew of PEGGY rescued by Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade.)

Master: Sedders
Crew: 5

Easting

437000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ437000568000

Sources

Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)130; Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 3 : Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s)86-8; National Monument Record (1365416)