Herd Sand, Haabet (Hoop)

HER Number

14785

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Haabet (Hoop)

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

Site Type: Specific

Galliot

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1814 incident in which a Danish galliot grounded on the Herd Sand on her arrival at Newcastle-upon-Tyne from Larvik, and was later recovered. Laden with deals and spars, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Crew saved.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (1343897); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 11-OCT-1814 [no issue number]; 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 15-OCT-1814, No.7201 Page(s)4