Tynemouth Bar, Pacific

HER Number

14460

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Bar, Pacific

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

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH BRIG, 1854 Sunk off the Bar at night in wind conditions W force 5, following collision with the sailing vessel CHANTICLEER

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1364672); 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)