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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NE 185
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Shah

Summary

SHAH, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE


Grid Reference:TQ 7509 6816
Map Sheet:TQ76NE
Parish:ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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Registration No. ROCHESTER 67079 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. SHAH was built at Sittingbourne in 1874. She was owned successively by Drake, and Gamman. She is noted as a roads barge in 1902, a hulk in 1935 and as being broken up or buried in 1975. Date reported as a roads barge taken for date of loss.


<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.b.ii., Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6419.

Sources and further reading

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<1>Bibliographic reference: Society for Spiritsail Barge Research. 1996. The last berth of the sailorman. 9.3.b.ii., Page Nos. N/a.