Bill Point, Bilboa

HER Number

14404

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Bill Point, Bilboa

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1816 incident in which an English brig foundered off Bill Point with her cargo of coal, but was recovered a few weeks later. She was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

436000

Northing

568000

Grid Reference

NZ436000568000

Sources

Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 13-DEC-1816, No.5134; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, Appendix 7 17 Page(s)284; Durham County Advertiser 21-DEC-1816, No.120 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 18-JAN-1817, No.7319 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 01-FEB-1817, No.7321 Page(s)4; National Monuments Record (971566)