South Shields, Herd Sand, Sir Edward Banks

HER Number:
14949

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sand, Sir Edward Banks

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Sailing Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Schooner

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Having left Hartlepool three days earlier, this vessel lost her rudder when it was carried away by heavy weather, in wind conditions NNE force 9. The vessel broached to, and drove ashore on the sand in a snowstorm to become a total wreck. Built: 1818 Crew: 5

Easting:
37900

Northing:
67300

Grid Reference:
NZ3790067300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (996704); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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)