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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SE 167 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Langesund a merchant barque, Thames and Medway Canal basin |
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Summary
Langesund a merchant barque, 1914. Thames and Medway Canal basin.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6562 7427 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SE |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Lost 1914, Post Medieval to Modern - 1876 AD to 1914 AD)
Full description
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Year Built: 1876 Crew: 10 Crew Lost: 0 Passengers: 0 Date of Loss Qualifier: A (1). Additional reference (2). No access as the canal basin is fenced off. The basin has been emptied of water and diggers are digging out the mud and any debris in the basin. Any remains of this barque have probably been removed by these remedial works (3).
<1> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.
<2> Board of Trade Casualty Returns, 1914 Appx.C Table 1, Page Nos. 29 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6357.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: United Kingdom shipwreck index. Page Nos. N/a. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: Board of Trade Casualty Returns. 1914 Appx.C Table 1, Page Nos. 29. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
