Herd Sand, Fermina

HER Number

14768

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Fermina

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

The FERMINA, wrecked on Herd Sand, en-route to London, 1814. Crew saved.

Master: Ditchburn

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971548); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 28-JUN-1814; 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)