Headstone at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk commemorating Master David Bartleman, d. 1781
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Transcript
'TO / The Memory of / DAVID BARTLEMAN / Master of the Brig Alexander & Margaret / of North Shields / Who on the 31st of Jan.ry 1781, on the Norfolk Coast / With only three 3 pounders and ten Men and Boys / Nobly defended himself / Against a Cutter carrying eighteen 4 pounders / And upward of a Hundred Men / Commanded by that notorious English Pirate / FALL / And fairly beat him off. / Two hours after the Enemy came down upon him again / When totally disabled his Mate Daniel Mac Auley / Expiring with the loss of blood / And himself dangerously wounded / He was obliged to strike and ransome. / He brought his shattered Vessel into Yarmouth / With more / Than the Honours of a Conqueror / And died here in consequence of his wounds / On the 14th of February following / In the 25th Year of his Age, / TO commemorate the Gallantry of his Son / The Bravery of his faithfull Mate / And at the same time Mark the Infamy of a / Savage Pirate / His afflicted father ALEXANDER BARTLEMAN / Has ordered this Stone to be erected over his / Honourable Grave / "Twas Great" / His Foe tho' strong was infamous / (The foe of the human kind) / A manly indignation fired his breast / Thank GOD my son has done his Duty.'
Details
Type: Headstone Position: Graveyard Vessel: Alexander & Margaret
Event Category
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War
People
Bartleman, David Age: 25 Date of Death: 14/2/1781 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Notes: John Fall operating as a privateer under American letters of marque against East Coast shipping (see Arthur E. Bensley's web page 'Fall the Pirate’).
Wall monument in Church of St John the Baptist, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire commemorating Commander Walter Estcourt RN d. 1845
Location
Church of St John the Baptist, Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / WALTER GRIMSTON BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, ESQR / COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL NAVY / FOURTH SON OF THOMAS GRIMSTON BUCKNALL ESTCOURT ESQR / OF ESTCOURT IN THIS PARISH / AGED THIRTY EIGHT YEARS / TWENTY FIVE OF WHICH / HE PASSED IN THE ACTIVE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY / HE DIED ON THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1845 / IN COMMAND OF H.M. STEAM SLOOP ECLAIR / WHILE ON HER PASSAGE HOME / FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA / AND WAS BURIED AT SEA / DEEPLY LAMENTED BY THE SURVIVORS OF HIS CREW / WHO HAD WITNESSED HIS DEVOTED / THOUGH UNAVAILING EFFORTS / TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERINGS OF THEIR COMRADES / OF WHOM SIXTY FIVE OFFICERS AND MEN / PERISHED WITH THEIR COMMANDER / VICTIMS OF THE AFRICAN FEVER "I HAD FAINTED UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD"'
Details
Description: Inscription on a carved sail suspended from a palm tree, a sword below. Type: Wall monument Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Eclair
People
Estcourt, Walter Grimston Bucknall Age: 38 Date of Death: 16/9/1845 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Brian Kemp 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1980) p.191.
Memorial in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Olveston, South Gloucestershire dedicated to Captain John Paul RN d. 1720
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Olveston, South Gloucestershire, England
Details
People
Casamayor, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1776 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Paul, John Age: 51 Date of Death: 1720 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Tonge, William Norris Age: Date of Death: 1844 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Born 1777.
Also of Thomas Casamayor. d. 1776 and William Tonge. d. 1844
Tomb in Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent commemorating Captain John Elliot Bingham RN, d. 1878
Location
Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Transcript
'To The memory of / John Elliot BINGHAM Capt. R.N / of Hurstwood Lodge Tunbridge Wells, / who fell asleep in Jesus November 25th. 1878 (BR: 1879), / aged 73 years. / "We love Him because He first loved us" / 1 John IV. 19. / In memory of / Ellen, the beloved wife of Captain J. Elliot BINGHAM, R.N. / of Oakfield Tunbridge Wells: / who fell asleep in Jesus on the 30th. day of March, 1870 / aged 62 years'
Wall tablet in Church of St John the Baptist, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire commemorating Thomas Halsey d. 1854 in the loss of the ‘Ercolano’ steam packet
Location
Church of St John the Baptist, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'Sacred / to the memory / of / Thomas Plumer Halsey, / aged 39, / Member of Parliament for this County. / Also of Frederica Halsey, his wife ,/ aged 35. / And of Ethelbert Arthur Sackville Halsey, / their youngest son, aged 4 years. / "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." / They were all swallowed up in the great deep / in one instant, on their passage from Genoa / to Marsailles, in the Erculano steam packet / which was sunk with almost all the passengers / by a dreadful collision with another vessel / off Antibes, on the night of / April 24th 1854. / And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. Rev.xx.13. / They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in death they were not divided / 2 Sam.1.23. / In Rama there was a voice heard, lamentation and weeping / and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and/would not be comforted because they are not. Matt.11.18:'
Details
Description: Inscription in gothic frame, a crest above and shield of arms below. Type: Wall tablet Position: Chancel north wall east Artists: White Vessel: Ercolano
People
Halsey, Thomas Plumer Age: 39 Date of Death: 24/4/1854 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Halsey, Frederica Age: 35 Date of Death: 24/4/1854 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Halsey, Ethelbert Arthur Sackville Age: 4 Date of Death: 24/4/1854 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Wall tablet in St Peter’s Church, Tewin, Hertfordshire commemorating Sub Lieutenant Owen Powell RN d. 1919
Location
St Peter's Church, Tewin, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'So he passed over and all the trumpets / sounded for him on the other side. / to the dear and beautiful memory of / Sub. Lieut. OWEN PHILIP POWELL R.N. / Beloved and only child of / OWEN MARKHAM and HARRIET POWELL / Killed on Active Service / In the Gulf of Finland / 3rd September 1919, aged 21'
Details
Description: Egg and tongue border. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Stone
People
Powell, Owen Philip Age: 21 Date of Death: 3/9/1919 Cause of Death: War Casualty Rank / Occupation: Sub Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in St Matthew’s Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Captain Frank Brandt RN d. 1914
Location
St Matthew's Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Frank Brandt, Captain RN who on 1 November 1914, off Coronel, Chile, died at his post in command of H.M.S. Monmouth a unit of the squadron led by Admiral Cradock, H.M.S. Good Hope against an overpowering German squadron. Both vessels sank in flames, with them perished admiral, officers men all willing to die rather than surrender. Born 1871. Elder son of Francis Brandt ICS and of Lucy Sophia his wife'
Details
Type: Tablet Position: Wall, east end of aisle Materials: Copper
Event
Battle of Cape Coronel
Event Date
1914
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Brandt, Frank Age: Date of Death: 1/11/1914 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Toxteth Park Cemetery commemorating Henry Blevin d. 1859 in the wreck of ‘Royal Charter’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In memory of Hannah Blevin, the beloved wife of James Blevin, / who died January 26th. 1862, aged 53 years, Also Henry Molyneux Blevin, second son of the above, who was lost / in the Steamship 'ROYAL CHARTER', October 26th 1859, aged 22 years / and 11 months'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Headstone L 504 Vessel: SS Royal Charter
People
Blevin, Henry Molyneux Age: 22 Date of Death: 26/10/1859 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Extra
Bibliography: 'Illustrated London News' (26 November 1859); 'Illustrated London News' (5 November 1869) p. 448; Bill Fevyer 'Joseph Rogers, seaman of the Royal Charter', 'The Lifesaving Awards Research Journal' no. 38, pp. 18-22 (Feb 2000). Recorder: Martin Davies. April, 1985
Headstone in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool commemorating Commander Samuel Strover RN d. 1868
Location
Holy Trinity Church, Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, England
Transcript
'Sacred / TO THE MEMORY OF / SAMUEL STROVER / COMMANDER RN / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 18TH 1868 / IN HIS 77TH YEAR / ALSO OF ELIZABETH / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 15TH 1877 / IN HER 81ST YEAR / ALSO OF / MARY ANNE STROVER / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVR 13TH 1868 / IN HER 79TH YEAR / CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS / AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL.'