Containers:

Box 3, Folders 9-15; Box 4, Folders 1-6

Identifier:

Series 2.

Dates:

1964-1973

Extent:

435 photographs (487 physical forms: prints, negatives, slides)

Scope and content:

Items 2455-2889. This Series contains slides, photographic prints and negatives of the model of the KATHLEEN that Ron Cleveland built. It also includes one research photograph of the original vessel and many research photographs of barges.

Biographical / historical:

The spritsail barge KATHLEEN was a flat-bottomed sailing ship which traded on the Thames and Medway and along the South and East Coasts of England. She was launched in 1901 from Lewis Glover's yard at Gravesend and registered 59 tons. The barge was originally owned by Lewis Glover and William Henry Duttson but in 1909 she was sold to the Whitstable Shipping Company. On March 6, 1923, KATHLEEN was hit and sunk by the Cunard Line vessel VIRGILIA, which was being towed by the river tugs SUN VII and SUN IX. She was repaired and ready to resume work again by November 1923. In 1945, KATHLEEN was converted to auxiliary power. In 1965, the barge was purchased by Richard Walsh and re-rigged as a sailing barge from 1965-1966. She was sold again in 1979 and was converted to a houseboat in Holland in the 1980s.

Arrangement:

Arranged into three Subseries: Subseries 2.1: Kathleen model photographs; Subseries 2.2: Kathleen photograph; Subseries 2.3: Barge photographs and research material.

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