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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 76 NW 196 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Violet |
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Summary
VIOLET, BRITISH BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7223 6681 |
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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 downstream of three barges on a wharf by the Medway Bridge. The Society for Spritsail Research record this as Violet built by Howard at Maldon in 1889. She was owned successively by Bentall, Littlebury, Marriage, Francis AND Gilders and Daniels. She is noted as being laid up in 1951 but then as a barge yacht at Brambletree Wharf, Borstal.
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.2.j., 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.j., Page Nos. N/a. |
