Herd Sand, Lord Nelson

HER Number

14834

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Lord Nelson

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

`The TWEE BROTHERS...and the LORD NELSON, Adamson, from Leith to Newcastle, run on shore upon the Herd Sand, on the night of the 9th Inst.' (Lloyd's)

Master: Adamson

Easting

437900

Northing

567000

Grid Reference

NZ437900567000

Sources

National Monuments Record (971540); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 22-DEC-1812, No.4730