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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SE 191 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Ruth |
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Summary
RUTH, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6561 7434 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SE |
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| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Broken up 1950, Post Medieval to Modern - 1879 AD to 1950 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. ROCHESTER 84413 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. RUTH was built at Murston by 1879. She was owned successively by Pine, Hutson, L.R.T.C. She is noted as a lighter in 1945, a hulk at Allington and as being broken up in 1950. Date reported as broken up taken as date of loss. (1)
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.1.e.iii, 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.iii, Page Nos. N/a. |
