Herd Sand, Jane (Jean?)
Herd Sand, Jane (Jean?)
HER Number
14819
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Jane (Jean?)
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Schooner
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Sunday 8th January 1854. Eleven ships were wrecked on the Herd Sand between 9pm and 2am Monday morning....JEAN of Inverness...The full complement of those eleven ships were safely landed without loss or injury. (Whitaker 1979)
Larn states the name of the vessel as JANE.
Crew: 5
Larn states the name of the vessel as JANE.
Crew: 5
Easting
437900
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ437900567300
Sources
National Monuments Record (1363049); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page92; 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)