Herd Sand, Brothers Increase

HER Number

14743

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Brothers Increase

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Sloop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1829 wreck of Scottish sloop which stranded on the Herd Sand en route from Inverness to Sunderland with grain: a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (1355955); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 01-MAY-1829, No.6425; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat; Quotation from Newcastle Courant 01-MAY-1829 Page(s)55; Newcastle Chronicle 02-MAY-1829 [via Ian Spokes]; Durham County Advertiser 09-MAY-1829 No.766 Page(s)3