Herd Sand, Robert and Mary

HER Number

14937

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Robert and Mary

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brig

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

February 1804 wreck of English brig which stranded on the Herd Sand on arriving in the River Tyne from Great Yarmouth during gales; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Swinhard

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971499); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 21-FEB-1804, No.4429; 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 18-FEB-1804, No.6645 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 25-FEB-1804, No.6646 Page(s)1