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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 67 SE 1024
Type of record:Maritime
Name:Ship breaking activity by Gravesend

Summary

Derelict boats along shore, signs of ship breaking going on at the foreshore by Gravesend


Grid Reference:TQ 66281 74348
Map Sheet:TQ67SE
Parish:GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SITE (Earlier than 1946, Post Medieval to Modern - 1800 AD to 1946 AD)

Full description

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Derelict boats along shore, signs of ship breaking going on. Photographs (1-11). At the mapped point no derelict boats are visible. Possibly the location is not very accurate and the derelict works are located at a place further east (no access to the east). (12)


<1> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10287.

<2> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10286.

<3> 1940, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10127.

<4> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10116.

<5> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10065.

<6> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10064.

<7> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10048.

<8> 1944, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10016.

<9> 1940, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9992.

<10> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9469.

<11> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9431.

<12> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 194. print.
<2>Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 192. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1940. Photograph. 1798. print.
<4>Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 2059. print.
<5>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4023. print.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 3025. print.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4003. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 1944. Photograph. 4019. print.
<9>Photograph (Print): 1940. Photograph. 1795. print.
<10>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4021. print.
<11>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4101. print.
<12>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.