Kingfisher

Main trade	Cement
Name	Kingfisher
Port of Registry	Ipswich
Off. No.	0
Tonnage	0
Tonnage system	0
Where built	0
Builder	Colchester
When built	1878
Length ft.	0
Beam ft.	0
Draught ft.	0
Changes	0
Rig/Hull	0
Owners	0
History	Skipper Stebbings, Mate Page:Skipper Moyse 1894. Mercantile & Ipswich Registers between 1867 and 1940 show no barge called “Kingfisher” related to Ipswich or Mason. If it existed it may have been a river barge used for inland navigation, these were not registered or it was a dumb barge/lighter. [foot]John White SSBR[/foot]; [foot]B5 Down Tops’l by Hervey Behham [/foot]although also referenced [foot]B1 The Thames Barge in Suffolk by Richard W Smith[/foot] and by R.Simper for date.[foot]B15 Topsail 44, Barges on the Deben by Robert Simper[/foot] Andrew Haig suspected that the cuttings, which he called Kingfisher Creek, were named after her.
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