Herd Sand, Dido

HER Number

14754

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Dido

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

1823 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Herd Sand during a gale, while attempting to enter Shields for shelter. Having left Sunderland with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971627); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-FEB-1823, No.5775; Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)49-50; Durham County Advertiser 08-FEB-1823, No.440 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 08-FEB-1823, No.7635 Page(s)4