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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 76 NE 189
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Flower of kent

Summary

FLOWER OF KENT, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE


Grid Reference:TQ 7853 6977
Map Sheet:TQ76NE
Parish:GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • WRECK (broken up 1935, Post Medieval to Modern - 1864 AD to 1933 AD)

Full description

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Registration No. ROCHESTER 49839 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. FLOWER OF KENT was built at Frindsbury in 1864. She was owned successively by Simmonds and A.P.C.M. She is noted as a hulk in 1933 and as being broken up in 1935. Date reported hulked taken as date of loss. (1)


<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.c.i., 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.c.i., Page Nos. N/a.