Black Middens, Argo

HER Number

14331

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Black Middens, Argo

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1804 wreck of English brig which stranded and bilged near the Black Middens, returning to Shields after springing a leak on her departure. En route to King's Lynn with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Stafford

Easting

437000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ437000568000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1339814); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 06-NOV-1804, No.4503; 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 Courant 03-NOV-1804, No.6682 Page(s)1, 4