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Monument details

Summary

REMAINS OF KINGFISHER, BRITISH BARGE

Monument Types

• WRECK (built 1899, Post Medieval to Modern - 1899 AD to 1961 AD (pre))

Full description

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Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1961 Line 6: 2050 Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1967 Line 32: 1393 Method of Fix: Aerial Photograph Interpretation Photograph Number: KCC 1990 Line 8: 0146 Registration No. LONDON 112780 This record refers to the York. She is reported to have been visible in 1986 lying with Carlotta in her hold, at Chetney Marsh Creek (1). On the aerial photographs this site appears as one of 8 barges lying at the edge of the marsh. KCC 1961 Line 7: 6858 shows the group at low tide. The area is not covered on the 1985 survey. On the 1990 survey the group is visible but appears to have become more covered by mud. Those to the north are particularly difficult to discern as separate entities. York was built at Halstow by Letley in 1900. Her owners are noted successively as Eastwoods and the War Department. She sank in the war. (1)

Position taken from 1946 aerial photograph (2,3)

<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.g., Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6419.

<2> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9805.

<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9516.

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