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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 188 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Falconet |
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Summary
FALCONET, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7143 6693 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | CUXTON, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WHARF (WHARF, Modern - 1901 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. ROCHESTER 118221 See also Temporary SMR Number (Kent) TQ 76 NW 13 - TQ 76 NW 24 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. FALCONET was built at Strood in 1899. She was owned successively by Watson, Gowen, Howe and Francis & Gilders. She was sold in 1952 and is then noted as a house barge at Chertsey, then a hulk, and finally as being buried in a wharf in 1983.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.2.j., 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.j., Page Nos. N/a. |
