Tynemouth, Osprey

HER Number

14275

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Osprey

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Cutter

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

British cutter parted from her moorings at the yacht club and driven ashore by force 8 winds, 1908. Built 1890, Owner G Smith, Hebburn

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1001955); United Kingdom shipwreck index, 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