Spanish Battery, Tyne

HER Number

14360

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Spanish Battery, Tyne

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1804 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near the Spanish Battery, bound for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from Southampton with timber; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Wright

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971504); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-NOV-1804, No.4505; 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 Advertiser 10-NOV-1804, No.839 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 10-NOV-1804, No.6683 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 17-NOV-1804, No.6684 Page(s)4; Tyne Mercury 13-NOV-1804, No.129 Page(s)3