Herd Sand, Junius

HER Number

14826

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Junius

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

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 LIVELY...HAPPY RETURN...SAVANNAH...JUNIUS of Christiansand, OCEAN...all wrecked on the Herd Sand.

Crew: 6

Easting

437900

Northing

567000

Grid Reference

NZ437900567000

Sources

National Monuments Record (1363036); 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); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)91-2