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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 195 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Pimlico |
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Summary
PIMLICO, BRITISH BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7219 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: 027 One 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 Pimlico built in 1914 at Borstal. She was owned successively by Little, Surridge, Meux in 1934, Ellis, L.R.T.C. and G Reeves. She is noted as having auxiliary power in 1947 and being amotor barge in 1951. She is further noted as a house barge and, by 1985, as a hulk.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.2.H., 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. 9.2.H., Page Nos. N/a. |
