Memorial: M5119

Memorial in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno commemorating Lieutenant James Moodie RN d. 1813

Location

Old English Cemetery, Via Giuseppe Verdi, Livorno, Italy, Rest of the World

Transcript

'S.M. / Iacobi Moodie / ex Orcadibus Scotiae insulis legati in classe Regia Britannica / Iuvenis eximiae spei / qui selectus / ut exponeret in terram copias Britannicas / ad Liburnam dominatione Gallica liberandum / inter fidos sodales / auxilium ferre eheu frustra conantes / irato mari submerses / XXVIII aet anno / idibus Decembris MDCCCXIII / immature morte correptus est / Hoc monumentum / officii causa / praefetus [sic] nec non legati aliique / navis Britanicae America / non sine lachrymis / posuere' [S.M. Jacob Moody from the Orkney Isles in Scotland, Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, a promising young man chosen from amongst loyal comrades to disembark the British troops to free Livorno from French rule. Alas! Help was impossible, all efforts were defeated by the stormy sea, he was snatched prematurely by death on 15 December 1813 aged 28. On account of his exemplary conduct the Commander and lieutenants of the British ship 'America', not without tears, erected this monument.]

Details

Vessel: America

Event

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Moodie, James
Age: 28
Date of Death: 15/12/1813
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Translation Silvia Bozzato.
Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson Cullum; Francis Campbell MaCauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p.73.

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters