Vessel Loss

Memorial: M5016

Memorial cross at Church of St Margaret of Antioch, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, Kent commemorating an infant passenger who died in the loss of the ‘Northfleet’ 1873

Location

Church of St Margaret of Antioch, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, Kent, England

Transcript

‘Here / sleeps the / body of an infant / one of the 293 passengers and crew / drowned in the ship / NORTHFLEET / run down off Dungeness / 22nd January 1873'

Details

Description: A small cross
Type: Cross
Position: n.13
Materials: Sandstone
Vessel: Northfleet

Extra

Notes: The Northfleet sailed from Gravesend and was bound for Hobart, Tasmania. She was struck by a steamer off Dungeness and sank. 293 passenger and crew drowned. 86 were saved.
Recorder: E.R. Stage 1982

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Maritime Memorials

Memorial: M5016

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters