Tyne and Wear HER(14800): South Shields, Herd Sand, Halcyon - Details
14800
S Tyneside
South Shields, Herd Sand, Halcyon
South Shields
NZ36NE
Maritime Craft
Sailing Vessel
Schooner
Early Modern
C19
Wreckage
Drove on the Herd Sand 1852 as a result of having failed to drop an anchor after a towing hawser to a tug had carried away. The crew were saved by the South Shields lifeboat in wind conditions NNW force 4. Estimated loss on the vessel was 1,000 [sterling], but she was uninsured, the loss on the cargo, also uninsured, being 54 [sterling].
Master: Eastland
Crew: 8
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National Monuments Record (987161); 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)