Tynemouth, Margaret

HER Number

14516

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth, Margaret

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Schooner

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1804 wreck of Scottish schooner which stranded and bilged on the south side of Prior's Haven, en route from Dundee to Wisbech via Newcastle-upon-Tyne with wheat; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Brown

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971495); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 17-JAN-1804, No.4419; 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 14-JAN-1804, No.6640 Page(s)4; Tyne Mercury 17-JAN-1804, No.86 Page(s)3