Herd Sand, Active

HER Number

14691

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Active

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Vessel foundered off Souter Point in wind condiitons W force 4 whilst under tow. NB: While under tow at After leaving Whitstable on New Year's Day, arrived off Hartlepool, her ballast having shifted, and almost unmanageable due to stress of weather; the wind conditions being E x N force 12 with snow, causing her to drive ashore at 3 pm to become a total wreck January 1857.
Built: 1846
Crew: 7

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (987237); 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]; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)93