Herd Sand, Ann

HER Number

14697

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Ann

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1816 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Herd Sand on her passage from Great Yarmouth to Leith with corn, while calling at Shields. Constructed of oak, she was a sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971567); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 03-JAN-1817, No.5140; 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); Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1817, Appendix 7 17 Page(s)284(664); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)44; Newcastle Courant 04-JAN-1817, No.7317 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 04-JAN-1817, No.122 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 04-JAN-1817, No.7317 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 18-JAN-1817, No.124 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 01-FEB-1817, No.7321 Page(s)4