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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 86 NW 110
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Redwing

Summary

REDWING, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE


Grid Reference:TQ 8171 6821
Map Sheet:TQ86NW
Parish:GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • WRECK (broken up 1936, Post Medieval to Modern - 1879 AD to 1936 AD)

Full description

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Registration No. ROCHESTER 79893 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. REDWING was built at Erith in 1879. She was owned successively by Colwell, Keep and Burley. She is noted as a hulk in 1936 and then as being burnt at Shaws Wharf. Date reported hulked 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

Cross-ref. 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.