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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 SE 88
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Nelson

Summary

NELSON, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE


Grid Reference:TQ 8945 7258
Map Sheet:TQ87SE
Parish:QUEENBOROUGH, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • WRECK (burnt around 1970, Modern - 1905 AD to 1970 AD)

Full description

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Registration No. LONDON 120590 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. NELSON was built at Sittingbourne by White in 1905. She was owned successively by Sales, Eastwood in 1953, Brice in 1955 and Allsworth. She is noted as being burnt around 1970. Her dimensions are given as 86 x 20.1 x 6.1 but without specification of the dimensions measured. (1)


<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.5.b., 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. 9.5.b., Page Nos. N/a.