Memorial in Hackney, London commemorating Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort d. 1857
Location
Hackney Churchyard, Hackney, London, England
Transcript
'ALICIA / MAGDELENA / BEAUFORT / OBT 27TH AUGUST / 1834 ET 52/ REAR ADMIRAL / SIR FRANCIS / BEAUFORT K.C.B / OBT 17TH DECEMBER / 1857 AET 83 / DAME HONDRA / BEAUFORT / OBT 13TH FEBRUARY / 1858 AET 67 / ' [Also plaque] 'REAR ADMIRAL SIR FRANCIS BEAUFORT KCB-FRS / HYDROGRAPHER OF THE ROYAL NAVY / 1829-1853 / ORIGINATOR OF THE BEAUFORT SCALE FOR / DENOTING THE FORCE OF WIND (1805)'
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Type: Vault Position: Churchyard. 80yd E Old St Augustines church tower
People
Beaufort, Francis Age: 83 Date of Death: 17/12/1857 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral. Hydrographer Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Commander Charles Timins RN d. 1838
Location
Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Beneath this church / are deposited the remains of / Charles Sheldon Timins, Esq. / Commander R.N. / late of Oriel Lodge in this town / who departed this life April 13th 1838 / in the 66th year of his age. / And of Anne Stephen his wife / who departed this life on the 19th November 1863 / Aged 82 years. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord'.
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Type: Wall tablet Position: West wall ground level
People
Timins, Charles Sheldon Age: 66 Date of Death: 13/4/1838 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in St Mary’s Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Ashmead Pruen d. 1796.
Location
St Mary's Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Erected / to the memory of / Capt. Ashmead Pruen / of the / Hon. East India Company's / Marine at Bombay / who died there / January XI MDCCXCVI / aged LIII'
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People
Pruen, Ashmead Age: 53 Date of Death: 11/1/1796 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Wall tablet in St Giles Church, Codicote, Hertfordshire commemorating Lieutenant Barkly Reid RN d. 1861
Location
St Giles Church, Codicote, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / BARKLY REID / LIEUT: OF H.M.S. 'JAMES WATT,' / ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM REID, ESQRE, / OF THE NODE, IN THIS PARISH, / WHOSE DEATH WAS CAUSED BY A FALL FROM HIS HORSE / AT CANEA, ISLE OF CANDIA, / ON THE 7TH MAY, 1861, / IN THE 23RD YEAR OF HIS AGE. / HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED IN THE / ENGLISH CEMETERY AT MALTA. / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / BY THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS OF THE / 'JAMES WATT,' / AS A MARK OF ESTEEM FOR THE MANY GOOD QUALITIES / BY WHICH HE HAD ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THEM.'
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Description: Above the inscription tablet is a plain frieze separated from the cavetto moulded cronice by a torus moulding. Above the cornice, an anchor and coiled rope in high relief. At the sides of the inscription tablet are carved blocks and tackle in relief. Type: Wall tablet Position: Chapel west wall Materials: Marble Artists: J Bedford Vessel: HMS James Watt
People
Reid, Barkly Age: 23 Date of Death: 7/5/1861 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: The chapel was furnished for the Reid family of the Node (their house) for their own use after the church was restored in 1853. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) 2007
Memorial in St Peter’s Church, Monk Soham, Suffolk commemorating Joseph Bazalgette, RNR d. 1912
Location
St Peter's Church, Monk Soham, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Joseph William Bazalgette RNR, elder son of the late Revd Evelyn Bazalgette, born 13 April 1893, died 11 March 1912. Accidentally drowned at sea from the S.S. Port Jackson, whilst performing his duty. "And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him” Matthew XIV. 31'
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Vessel: SS 'Port Jackson'
People
Bazalgette, Joseph William Age: 18 Date of Death: 11/3/1912 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Royal Naval Reserve
Gravestone in Spion Kop Cemetery, Hartlepool commemorating Thomas Sheffield d. 1863
Location
Spion Kop Cemetery, Hartlepool, Hartlepool, England
Transcript
'In / MEMORY OF / MAGDALENE / THE BELOVED WIFE OF / WILLIAM SHEFFELD, MARINER / WHO DIED AUGUST 1ST 1865 / AGED 58 YEARS / Her end was peace [verse] / ALSO WILLIAM GEORGE THIRD SON OF / THE ABOVE WHO DIED MAY 17TH 1881 / AGED 10 YEARS / ALSO THOMAS ELDEST SON OF THE / ABOVE WHO WAS DROWNED AT SEA / IN THE BARQUE FLYING SPRAY OF / HARTLEPOOL 1863 AGED 20 YEARS / ALSO SAMUEL SMITH SECOND SON OF / THE ABOVE WHO DIED IN INFANCY AND / WAS INTERRED IN STEPNEY / CHURCH YARD LONDON'
Memorial in St Augustine’s Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire commemorating Admiral of the Fleet William Williams d. 1832
Location
St Augustine's Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / WILLIAM PEERE WILLIAMS FREEMAN / OF FAWLEY COURT IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAM / AND HODDESDEN IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD / AND ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET / BORN AT PETERBOROUGH 26 NOVEMBER 1740 / DIED AT HODDESDEN 11th FEBRUARY 1832'
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People
Williams, William Peere Age: Date of Death: 11/2/1832 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet Organisation: Royal Navy
Monument in St Mary the Virgin, Therfield, Hertfordshire commemorating Lieutenant Barnard Turner RN d. 1784
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Therfield, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
‘Under this tomb are interred the remains / of Mrs SARAH PERRY TURNER / who died 7th March 1782 aged 39 Years / leaving to her affectionate and afflicted / Husband the following Children / ANN TULLETT TURNER born 23d April 1769 / WILLIAM SACKVILLE TURNER born 4th Octr 1770 / SARAH PERRY TURNER born 28th March 1772 / EDWARD GEORGE TURNER born 25th Augst 1774 / SOPHIA PERRY TURNER born 31st Decr. 1775 / And / WILLIAM SWINEY TURNER born 7th March 1782 / who died the 13th following / six days old.’, 'As a Memorial of love and attachment / for the most deserving and beloved wife / this tomb is erected by BARNARD TURNER Commanding Officer / of the LONDON / Military Foot Association / during the Memorable riots in June 1780 . / Major / of the Honorable Artillery Company / and Alderman of the City of / London.', 'To the Memory of Sir Barnard Turner KNT / Alderman and Sheriff of London and Middlesex / Major of the Honourable Artillery Company and / Member of Parliament for the Borough of Southwark / who signalized his early years in the Naval Service / of his Country and became eminently distinguished / in social and civil life by unremitted activity, and / undaunted courage, unshaken integrity and / firmness of a Magistrate, spirited support of / order and decency in the execution of Justice / humane attention to the distresses of the / wretched, and disinterested ardour for the / public good, merited and adorned that / dignity and those important Stations to which / his Sovereign and fellow Citizens had raised him. / The Artillery Company having attended / their much lamented Officer and friend here to / his grave, dedicated this inscription. He died / by a fall from his Horse 15th June 1784 / Aged 42.',
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Description: Square monument surmounted by a pyramid. Inscriptions on slate panels on the sides. Type: Monument Position: Churchyard Vessel: HMS Centurion
Event Category
1756-1763 Seven Years War
People
Turner, Barnard Age: 42 Date of Death: 15/6/1784 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: 'His inclinations led young Turner early to a maritime life, and he afforded several proofs of his courage and capacity during the course of the war with France and Spain, which continued from 1756 to 1763. When His Royal Highness the Duke of York made his naval tour, Mr. Turner was an officer on board the Centurion man of war, and attended his Highness to Lisbon Gibraltar, Minorca, and several ports in Italy; and went to Algiers with a present from the Duke, where he acted so much to his Highness's satisfaction, that he made Mr Turner a present of an elegant sword, and frequently expressed his wishes to serve him in any manner that could contribute to his advancement. At the conclusion of the war Mr Turner come home second Lieutenant of the Centurion, and his noble patron being dead, entered into a branch of the sugar trade.' He became a sugar refiner. Bibliography: 'General Evening Post' 17 June 1784 Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson 2019 Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond 2019
Memorial in St Nicholas’s Church, Deptford commemorating John Benbow d. 1708
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, England
Transcript
'Here lyeth ye Body of JOHN BENBOW / Elder Son of Adm. JOHN BENBOW Viz. / Admiral of Ye White By Martha His Wife / He died November ye 17, 1708 in ye 27th / Year of His Age.'
Details
Description: Formerly carved with Benbow arms. Type: Ledger Position: North aisle floor
People
Benbow, John Age: 27 Date of Death: 17/11/1708 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Mariner Organisation:
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Notes: Shipwrecked at Madagascar in 1702 whilst mate of an East Indiaman. Son of Vice-Admiral John Benbow. Church also holds brass coffin plate to William Benbow died 4/4/1729 aged 38. Bibliography: 'Dictionary of National Biography'; A.E. Daniell 'London Riverside Churches' London, 1897); J. Summerson 'Monuments in St Nicholas Deptford', 'Mariners Mirror' vol. 27, p. 281 (Cambridge,1941). Recorder: TMW
Memorial in Cartmel, Cumbria dedicated to Nicholas Barrow d. 1802
Location
Cartmel Priory, Cartmel, Cumbria, England
Transcript
'To the memory of / NICHOLAS BARROW / shipwright, late of Headhouse / who departed this life May 30th / 1802 aged 85 years / What sort of man he was / the last day will discover'
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Position: Nave
People
Barrow, Nicholas Age: 85 Date of Death: 30/5/1802 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipwright Organisation:
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Notes: DOSSIER in notes. Recorder: DB Nottage
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