Herd Sand, Britannia

HER Number

15114

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Britannia

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Specific

Craft

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

English Craft wrecked on Herd Sance 1771. Master: Jackson

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (987068); United Kingdom shipwreck index [pre publication typescript]; Lloyd's 1969 Lloyd's list 03-DEC-1771, No.281; George B Hodgson 1904 Wreck register for the north-east coast : a complete list of local shipping disasters from the earliest times to the end of 1902 Page(s)6; 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)