South Shields, Dina Hernderika (Dina Hinderika)

HER Number:
14683

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Dina Hernderika (Dina Hinderika)

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ56SW

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Schooner

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1917 wreck of Dutch schooner which foundered 30 miles ENE of West Hartlepool after being stopped by UC-62 and scuttled with explosives, while en route from West Hartlepool to Drammen with coal. Constructed of steel in 1909, she was a sailing vessel. Built: 1909 Builder: Gebroder Bos Where Built: Groningen Construction: 3 masts Owner: R Eggens; her owner from 1909 was Roelf Eggens, Groningen, but from 1915 she was owned by Nolson Meijer, Terneuzen Registry: Germanischer Lloyd

Easting:
52

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ5262

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1002348); 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); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 1990 Lloyd's war losses, The First World War: Casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918 page(s)116; http://members.home.nl/adriana-shipping/Datebase.htm accessed and translated from the Dutch on 21-FEB-2008