South Shields, Herd Sand, Providence

HER Number:
14931

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sand, Providence

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Brig

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
1820 wreck of possible English brig which stranded on the Herd Sand during a snowstorm. En route from Alnmouth to Sunderland, she was a wooden sailing vessel, and may have afterwards been recovered. [The details of this PROVIDENCE and another vessel of the same name involved in this incident may have become confused. See HER 14928.

Easting:
37900

Northing:
67300

Grid Reference:
NZ3790067300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1404366); Durham County Advertiser 22-JAN-1820, No.281 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 22-JAN-1820, No.7476 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 29-JAN-1820, No.7477 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 29-JAN-1820, No.282 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 02-SEP-1820, No.7508 Page(s)4