Herd Sand, Medium

HER Number

14906

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Herd Sand, Medium

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Maritime Craft

Site Type: Broad

Sailing Vessel <By Rig>

Site Type: Specific

Barque

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Wreckage

Description

Left Liverpool at noon on 09-JAN, arriving off Shields on 27-JAN 1860, but when proceeding towards the Herd buoy under tow of a tug, the latter proving incapable of towing the barque to windward, her master cast off the tow rope. Having refused her helm in wind conditions NE force 8 and squally, she drove on the sand at 5.20pm to become a total loss. Estimated financial loss on the vessel was 2,200 [sterling].

Built: 1852
Crew: 15

Easting

437900

Northing

567300

Grid Reference

NZ437900567300

Sources

National Monuments Record (996767); 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