Souter Point, Betty

HER Number

15042

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Souter Point, Betty

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ46SW

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1755 wreck of an English brigantine which stranded north of Souter Point. Master: Poole

Easting

441400

Northing

562000

Grid Reference

NZ441400562000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1385880); 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)