Tynemouth Head, Old Nightingale

HER Number

14594

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Head, Old Nightingale

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH CRAFT, 1753 driven upon Head Sand.

Easting

437000

Northing

569000

Grid Reference

NZ437000569000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1031939); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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 7, Northumberland (CG); Sherborne Mercury 10-DEC-1753