Tynemouth Head, Rothmay

HER Number

14321

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, Rothmay

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

British craft, stranded 1755. Master: Alex Brown

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1031942); 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 7, Northumberland (CG)