Memorial: M5896

Memorial at St Clement’s Church, Ipswich, Suffolk commemorating Sir Thomas Slade, Surveyor of the Navy, d. 1771

Location

St Clement's Church, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'near this spot lies buried / Sir THOMAS SLADE / (died Feb 1771) / Sometime Surveyor to the Navy / who in that capacity was / responsible for the design of / H.M.S. VICTORY / His wife HANNAH lies with / her parents in the tomb to be seen / next to the west boundary of the / churchyard

Details

Description: Plaque on bronze obelisk.
Type: Obelisk
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Bronze
Vessel: HMS Victory

People

Slade, Thomas
Age: c. 68
Date of Death: 1771
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Surveyor to the Navy
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Thomas Slade was appointed as Surveyor of the Navy in 1755, having worked as a Shipwright, Deputy Master Shipwright and Master Shipwright at Chatham, Deptford, Plymouth and Woolwich dockyards.
Photographer: B Tomlinson; P Lacey

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters