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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 101 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Virocca |
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Summary
VIROCCA, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8171 6821 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NW |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (broken up 1959, Post Medieval to Modern - 1899 AD to 1959 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. LONDON 110123 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. Virocca was built at Southampton by Fay in 1899. She was owned successively by Goldsmith and Shaw. She is noted as having an auxilliary electric motor in 1950 and as being broken up in 1959. Date reported broken up taken as date of loss. (1)
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.d.ii, 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. 9.3.d.ii, Page Nos. N/a. |
