South Shields, Herd Sand, Brothers Increase

HER Number:
14743

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sand, Brothers Increase

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Sloop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1829 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded on the Herd Sand en route from Inverness to Sunderland with grain: a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting:
37900

Northing:
67300

Grid Reference:
NZ3790067300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1355955); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-MAY-1829, No.6425; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat; Quotation from Newcastle Courant 01-MAY-1829 Page(s)55; Newcastle Chronicle 02-MAY-1829 [via Ian Spokes]; Durham County Advertiser 09-MAY-1829 No.766 Page(s)3