The Bar, Generous Planter

HER Number:
15115

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
The Bar, Generous Planter

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Collier

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1772 wreck of British collier which stranded on the Sparrowhawk and may later have been recovered; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Bruce

Easting:
437900

Northing:
567300

Grid Reference:
NZ437900567300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (971428); 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); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 08-MAY-1772, No.3773