Herd Sand, Duke of York

HER Number

14759

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Duke of York

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Cargo Vessel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1762 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand in a snowstorm on her passage from London in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971405); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 05-MAR-1762, No.2728; 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 27-FEB-1762, No.4458 Page(s)2; Newcastle Courant 06-MAR-1762, No.4459 Page(s)2; Newcastle Courant 13-MAR-1762, No.4460 Page(s)2