Herd Sand, Three Sisters

HER Number

14958

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Three Sisters

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

1802 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand on her passage from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Hamburg with coalMaster: Taylor

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (971483); Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 07-DEC-1802, No.4305; 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); Tyne Mercury 30-NOV-1802, No.27 Page(s)3; Newcastle Courant 04-DEC-1802, No.6582 Page(s)1, 4; Newcastle Advertiser 04-DEC-1802, No.738 Page(s)4; Newcastle Courant 11-DEC-1802, No.6583 Page(s)1