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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 NE 81 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | John byford |
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Summary
JOHN BYFORD, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5919 7581 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57NE |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (broken up 1960, Post Medieval to Modern - 1881 AD to 1960 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. LONDON 85049 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. JOHN BYFORD was built at Bow in 1881. She was owned successively by Byford, Westwood, Byford and Mann. She is noted as a lighter in 1940, a house barge in 1959 and as being broken up in 1960. Date reported broken up taken as date of loss. (1)
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.1.e.i., 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.i., Page Nos. N/a. |
