Milldown, Joseph and Mary

HER Number

14279

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Milldown, Joseph and Mary

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1798 incident in which an English craft was burnt at Milldown en route but which was apparently not totally lost; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437000

Northing

567000

Grid Reference

NZ437000567000

Sources

National Monuments Record (973404); George B Hodgson 1904 Wreck register for the north-east coast : a complete list of local shipping disasters from the earliest times to the end of 1902 Page(s)6; Newcastle Advertiser 20-OCT-1798, No.523 Page(s)2