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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NE 187 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Spurgeon |
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Summary
SPURGEON, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7549 5686 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NE |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. ROCHESTER 87219 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. SPURGEON was built at Murston in 1883. She was owned successively by Smeed Dean and by L.B.S.. She is noted as a barge yacht in 1949, a house boat at Cheyne Walk in 1954, and as being broken up. Date reported as a house boat taken as date of loss.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.2.d, 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. 9.2.d, Page Nos. N/a. |
