Herd Sand, Flora

HER Number

14770

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Flora

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Collier

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1784 wreck of English collier which stranded on the Herd Sand on leaving Shields with coal; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971439); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 05-NOV-1784, No.1618; 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); Newcastle Courant 30-OCT-1784, No.5638 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 06-NOV-1784, No.5639 Page(s)1, 4