Herd Sand, Drie Damer (Tre Damer, Ives Damer)

HER Number

14757

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Drie Damer (Tre Damer, Ives Damer)

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1834 wreck of Danish cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand on her arrival at Newcastle-upon-Tyne from Kingston-upon-Hull. Laden with earthenware and coal tar, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Crew saved.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (1362106); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 17-JAN-1834, No.6917;Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)64; 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); Durham County Advertiser 24-JAN-1834, No.1012 Page(s)3