Herd Sand, Sir Edward Banks
Herd Sand, Sir Edward Banks
HER Number
14949
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Sir Edward Banks
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Maritime Craft
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Rig>
Site Type: Specific
Schooner
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Wreckage
Description
Having left Hartlepool three days earlier, this vessel lost her rudder when it was carried away by heavy weather, in wind conditions NNE force 9. The vessel broached to, and drove ashore on the sand in a snowstorm to become a total wreck.
Built: 1818
Crew: 5
Built: 1818
Crew: 5
Easting
437900
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ437900567300
Sources
National Monuments Record (996704); 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)