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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 169 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Dunstable |
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Summary
DUNSTABLE, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6271 7462 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (built 1891, Post Medieval to Modern - 1891 AD to 1946 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. ROCHESTER 98813 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. DUNSTABLE (ex R G H) was built at Milton in 1891 and re-built in 1928. She was owned successively by R G Hodgkin and Smeed Dean. She is noted as being a hulk in 1946 and as being built into Robins Wharf in 1971. Three sites have been recorded from aerial photographs. These lie in TQ 6180 7500, 6180 7500 and 6180 7500. The photographs did not show them after 1967. Date reported hulked taken as date of loss. (1)
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.1.e.ii., Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6419.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: Society for Spiritsail Barge Research. 1996. The last berth of the sailorman. 9.1.e.ii., Page Nos. N/a. |
