Herd Sand, Robert Gordon (Robert Garden)
Herd Sand, Robert Gordon (Robert Garden)
HER Number
14938
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Robert Gordon (Robert Garden)
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Transport Vessel
Site Type: Specific
Cargo Vessel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
SCOTTISH CARGO VESSEL, 1834. Master: Milne. Newcastle Courant 24th October 1834:
`The ROBERT GORDON owned by Milne of Aberdeen from Sunderland with lime, bound for Aberdeen, bore up from the Coquet, for Shields harbour, and in taking Tynemouth Bar fell to leeward, fell upon the Herdsand, where she now remains. Crew saved by the NORTHUMBERLAND lifeboat
`The ROBERT GORDON owned by Milne of Aberdeen from Sunderland with lime, bound for Aberdeen, bore up from the Coquet, for Shields harbour, and in taking Tynemouth Bar fell to leeward, fell upon the Herdsand, where she now remains. Crew saved by the NORTHUMBERLAND lifeboat
Easting
437900
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ437900567300
Sources
National Monuments Record (1362115); 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)l Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)64; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1834, Appendix 7. 17 Page(s)311 (691)
Section 6, County Durham (CF)l Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)64; Parliamentary papers 1836, Select Committee on Shipwreck, 1834, Appendix 7. 17 Page(s)311 (691)