Memorial window in Westminster Abbey, London dedicated to those lost aboard HMS ‘Captain’, foundered 1870 off Cape Finisterre
Location
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England
Transcript
[Beneath window] 'In Memory of the Officers Men and Boys drowned off Cape Finisterre in HMS Captain Sept 7, 1870.'
[Plaque on floor] 'The stained window above / commemorates the foundering / of HMS Captain on Sept. 7 1870 / when Captain Hugh Burgoyne, V.C. / Captain Cowper Coles. C.B. / with 49 officers / and 402 men and boys / perished off Cape Finisterre / in the service of their country. / The names are recorded on brasses in St Paul's Cathedral.'
Details
Description: In the cinquefoil at the top - The Sea giving up her dead. Left hand from the top - Building the Ark; The passage through the Red Sea; The Fleet of Solomon; Building the ship of Tyre; The deliverance of Jonah. Right hand from the top - Christ stilling the tempest; Christ walking on the sea; Christ teaching from the ship; the miraculous draught of fishes; The Shipwreck of St Paul.
Type: Stained glass window
Position: North transept, west aisle
Date Erected: 1871
Artists: JR Clayton & Alfred Bell
Vessel: HMS 'Captain'
Type: Stained glass window
Position: North transept, west aisle
Date Erected: 1871
Artists: JR Clayton & Alfred Bell
Vessel: HMS 'Captain'
Extra
Bibliography: www.hmscaptain.co.uk. 'The Builder' 1872, p.434; Arthur Hawkey 'Black Night off Finisterre: the tragic tale of a British Ironclad' (Shrewsbury, 1999) p.170-171