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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 146 |
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| Type of record: | Maritime |
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| Name: | Bessie taylor |
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Summary
BESSIE TAYLOR, ENGLISH SPRITSAIL BARGE
| Grid Reference: | TQ 827 673 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NW |
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| Parish: | GILLINGHAM, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WRECK (Buried around 1955, Post Medieval to Modern - 1865 AD to 1936 AD)
Full description
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Registration No. ROCHESTER 52949 Precise coordinates not available, last known location of vessel reported by Society for Spritsail Barge Research. BESSIE TAYLOR was built at Sittingbourne by Taylor in 1865. She was owned successively by Masters and Storr. She is noted as hulk and then being laid up in 1936. She is further noted as being buried around 1955. Date reported as laid up taken as date of loss. (1)
<1> Society for Spiritsail Barge Research, 1996, The last berth of the sailorman, 9.3.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. 9.3.e, Page Nos. N/a. |
