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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 114 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Yaranza |
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Summary
YARANZA, 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 around 1954, Post Medieval to Modern - 1899 AD to 1954 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. LONDON 110126 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. YARANZA was built at Southampton in 1899. She was owned successively by Goldsmith and L.R.T.C. She is noted as being broken up around 1954. A number of barges have been recorded in this location from aerial photographs held by Kent County Council. These show the wharf to have been extended over the site of the barges 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. |
