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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NE 217 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Volet |
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Summary
VIOLET, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7520 6873 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NE |
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| Parish: | FRINDSBURY EXTRA, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. LONDON 105853 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. Violet was built at Ipswich in 1896. She was owned successively by Sales and Brice. She is noted as a barge yacht in 1953, a house barge at Borstal and as a sunken hulk in 1984. Date reported as a sunken hulk taken as date of loss.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.2.p., 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.p., Page Nos. N/a. |
