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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 194 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Alan |
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Summary
ALAN, BRITISH BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7213 6679 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ76NW |
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| Parish: | ROCHESTER & CHATHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1967 Line 29: 1201 Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1985 Line 11: 0027 The most upstream of three barges on a wharf by the Medway Bridge. It appears to be decked with structure amidships. The Society for Spritsail Research record this as Alan built at Battersea in 1900. She was owned succcessively by Keep and L.R.T.C. She is noted as an auxiliary in 1947 and as a house barge in 1959. Although the Society for Spritsail Research have marked Alan on a plan of Medwat Bridge she is listed under West Hoo Creek.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.4.e., 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. 9.4.e., Page Nos. N/a. |
