Herd Sand, Tyne

HER Number

14964

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Tyne

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Smack

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Vessel stranded and lost after breaking her tow rope to a tug in wind conditions ENE force 5, causing her to drift ashore before sail could be set, 1857.

Built: 1857

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (1364750); 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)