North Shields, Bland

HER Number

14400

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

North Shields, Bland

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

1752 incident of English cargo vessel which grounded while en route from London to pick up coal from Shields for Gibraltar and New England, but which was recovered; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: English

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-SEP-1752, No.1751; 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); Norwich Mercury 29-AUG to 16-SEP-1752 Page(s)1; Sherborne Mercury 18-SEP-1752 Page(s)2; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 20-OCT-1752, No.1762; Newcastle Courant 29-AUG-1752, No.3062 Page(s)3; National Monuments Record (987049)