South Shields, Herd Sand, Blenheim

HER Number:
15103

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Herd Sand, Blenheim

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad:
Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific:
Cargo Vessel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Wreckage

Description:
Cargo vessel stranded and lost against the South Pier in force 8 winds, December 1876. Built: 1875 Builder: T Richardson & Son Where Built: Hartlepool HP: 100 Master: Bethune or Battram Crew: 20 Crew Lost: 1 Nathaniel Richardson of Whitby Owner: Steel & Young Co., London

Easting:
37900

Northing:
67300

Grid Reference:
NZ3790067300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
National Monuments Record (1365141); Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page90; 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)