Herd Sand, Jacob Rothenberg (Jacob Rothenburg)

Herd Sand, Jacob Rothenberg (Jacob Rothenburg)

HER Number
15112
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Herd Sand, Jacob Rothenberg (Jacob Rothenburg)
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
1878 wreck of German barque which grounded, then stranded on the south side of the South Pier, on her arrival from London in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Built: 1868
Master: F Wilde
Crew: 7
Passengers: 1
Owner: Reichmineister & Valling, Rostock
Easting
437900
Northing
567300
Grid Reference
NZ437900567300
Sources
National Monuments Record (997046); Boswell Whitaker 1980 Preservation of life from shipwreck, volume 2 : South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Page(s) 93-95; 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); United Kingdom shipwreck index