Herd Sand, Unity
Herd Sand, Unity
HER Number
14969
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Unity
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
From the North and South Shields Gazette, 29th October 1852.
"During the course of Wednesday morning some vessels were observed along the coast and toward 2 o'clock they commenced to come in. A London brig, the UNITY of Lynn, which left Hartlepool on Monday, while attempting to take Shields Bar, struck and drove onto the Herd Sand. The crew were gallantly rescued by the South Shields lifeboat PROVIDENCE..." (Whitaker)
Master: Massingham
Crew: 6
"During the course of Wednesday morning some vessels were observed along the coast and toward 2 o'clock they commenced to come in. A London brig, the UNITY of Lynn, which left Hartlepool on Monday, while attempting to take Shields Bar, struck and drove onto the Herd Sand. The crew were gallantly rescued by the South Shields lifeboat PROVIDENCE..." (Whitaker)
Master: Massingham
Crew: 6
Easting
437900
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ437900567300
Sources
National Monuments Record (987105); 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
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