Herd Sand, Happy Return
Herd Sand, Happy Return
HER Number
14802
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Happy Return
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Specific
Craft
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Wrecked in the gales of January 1854.
9th January 1854. At the tail end of the same gale the three lifeboats were out again for the...HAPPY RETURN of Goole...wrecked on the Herd Sand.
9th January 1854. At the tail end of the same gale the three lifeboats were out again for the...HAPPY RETURN of Goole...wrecked on the Herd Sand.
Easting
437900
Northing
567000
Grid Reference
NZ437900567000
Sources
National Monuments Record (1363280); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)91-2