South Shields, Anne

HER Number

14322

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

South Shields, Anne

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

1803 wreck of English craft which was wrecked near Shields during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Richard Shotton? The NMR has two entries for Anne (NZ 36 NE 138 + 139) - the Anne of Sunderland and the Anne of Sheilds. It is uncertain whether both ships were wrecked at Shields, near Sunderland or if one was wrecked off Alnmouth.

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971486); National Monuments Record (971487); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 18-JAN-1803, No.4317; 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); Dick Keys and Ken Smith 1998 Black Diamonds by Sea: North-East Sailing Colliers 1780-1880 Page(s)20, 22