It's all quiet off the North East coast today, but 50 years ago a beached vessel at Tynemouth made the headlines of the Evening Chronicle.
Given the seafaring history of our region, it wasn’t that uncommon to see a vessel in trouble off our shores in the rough North Sea. If we take the stretch of water between Whitby and Berwick, there were around 380 recorded shipwrecks between 1740 and 2000.
It was July 1972 when the fishing boat, Bella, ended up on the rocks 50 yards from the shore at Tynemouth. Our dramatic photograph captures the holed boat lying on its side at St Edward's Bay.
