South Shields, Herd Sand, James and Ann

HER Number:
14815

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sand, James and Ann

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Schooner

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Wrecked in the gales of January 1854. Sunday, 8th January. Eleven ships were wrecked on the Herd Sand between 9.00pm and 2.00am Monday morning...JAMES AND ANN, of Ipswich...The full complement of those eleven ships were safely landed without loss or injury, 87 seamen all told (Whitaker 1979). Built: Camphire, Zealand Year Built: 1731 Rebuilt: 1831 Owner: John Cobbold Crew lost: 0

Easting:
37900

Northing:
67300

Grid Reference:
NZ3790067300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1363037); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)91-2l; 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)