Herd Sand, Sarah Ellen

HER Number

14944

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Sarah Ellen

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Brigantine

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

ENGLISH BRIG, 1857. Driven ashore in gales of 4th and 5th January. Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 1

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (987239); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; 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); Boswell Whitaker 1979 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 1 : Skuetender lifeboat Page(s)93