Herd Sand, Hazard

HER Number

14805

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Hazard

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Transport Vessel

Site Type: Specific

Collier

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1794 wreck of English collier which stranded on the Herd Sand during a storm, on arriving at Shields from London in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971450); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 31-JAN-1794, No.2582; George B Hodgson 1904 Wreck register for the north-east coast : a complete list of local shipping disasters from the earliest times to the end of 1902 Page(s)6; 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 01-FEB-1794, No.6111 Page(s)4; Newcastle Advertiser 01-FEB-1794, No.276 Page(s)2