Herd Sand, Nancy

HER Number

14910

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Nancy

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

1814 wreck of English craft which stranded on the Herd Sand on returning to Shields with a leak; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971551); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 27-DEC-1814, No.4934; 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 24-DEC-1814, No.7211 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 31-DEC-1814, No.7212 Page(s)4; Durham County Advertiser 24-DEC-1814, No.16 Page(s)3