Black Middens, Prince Regent
Black Middens, Prince Regent
HER Number
14192
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Black Middens, Prince Regent
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Specific
Wreck
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Feb. 3rd 1831. On Monday night after some days of calm and sluggish weather, with the wind about NW, a strong breeze came on from SSW, which increased towards morning to a gale and shifted gradually to SE, until about 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning when it literally blew a hurricane from that quarter, with thick, heavy and continued showers of snow and sleet, and a tremendous sea running.'
Master: Blomfield
Master: Blomfield
Easting
437000
Northing
568000
Grid Reference
NZ437000568000
Sources
Durham County Advertiser 04-FEB-1831, No.857 [old series]/31 [new series] Page(s)247; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 08-FEB-1831, No.6610; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)59; Newcastle Chronicle 05-FEB-1831 [via Ian T Spokes]; National Monuments Record (1047778)