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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 96 SW 113
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Excelsior

Summary

EXCELSIOR, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE


Grid Reference:TQ 9148 6486
Map Sheet:TQ96SW
Parish:SITTINGBOURNE, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • WRECK (built in 1861, Post Medieval - 1861 AD to 1861 AD)

Full description

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Registration No. FAVERSHAM 28458 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. Excelsior was built at Sittingbourne in 1861. She was owned successively by Reynolds and Wood. She is noted as a hulk and derelict and then as being broken up. (1)


<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.5.e.v., Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6419.

Sources and further reading

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<1>Bibliographic reference: Society for Spiritsail Barge Research. 1996. The last berth of the sailorman. 9.5.e.v., Page Nos. N/a.