Herd Sand, Orwell

HER Number

14918

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Orwell

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

January 1794 incident in which an English collier grounded on the Herd Sand on her arrival at Shields from London in ballast, but which was soon recovered; a wooden sailing vessel.

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971452); 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