Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Captain George Probyn HEIC and Lieutenant Francis Corbin Probyn RN, both d. 1855
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTN GEORGE PROBYN, / OF THE EAST INDIA Cos / LATE MARITIME SERVICE. / AN ELDER BROTHER OF THE TRINITY HSE / AND A J OF PEACE / FOR THE COUNTY OF MDSX. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / AT HIS RESIDENCE, 21 BRYANSTONE Sqre, ON THE 25TH NOVEMBER 1855, / IN HIS 59TH YEAR OF AGE. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF ALICIA, HIS WIFE, / DAUGHTER OF SIR FRANCIS WORKMAN MACHNATEN, BART. / SHE DIED AT HOMBURG NEAR FRANKFURT ON THE MAINE. / ON THE 9TH SEPTEMBER 1864, AGED 57. / AND IS BURIED HERE. / ALSO IN MEMORY OF / FRANCIS CORBIN PROBYN / LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY. / 2ND SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED / GEORGE PROBYN / AND OF ALICIA HIS WIFE / WHO DIED AT SEA ON HIS PASSAGE, / FROM THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA / ON THE 24TH DAY OF APRIL 1855, / AGED 26 YEARS. / O DEATH! WHERE IS THY STING, O GRAVE!/WHERE IS THY VICTORY? THE STING OF DEATH / IS SIN AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW. / BUT THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH GIVETH US THE / VICTORY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.'
Details
Description: Flat slab and large pedestal. Pedestal has two anchors in the corners. Type: Slab Position: 12,834/104/? Artists: E.M. Lander
Event
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Probyn, George Age: 59 Date of Death: 25/11/1855 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company, Trinity House Probyn, Francis Corbin Age: 26 Date of Death: 24/04/1855 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Plaque at St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating the engineer officers lost in HMS ‘Captain’ 1870
Location
St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'In Memory of / The Undermentioned Engineer Officers / who perished on HMS Captain / off the coast of Spain on the 7th Septr / 1870 / George Rock Chief Engr. / Willm C. Moreton Engr. / Peter Baldwin Engr. / Fredk Pursell Engr. / John H. Willis Engr. / George H. Barnes Engr. / George P Gardiner Ass. Engr. 1st Class / Thomas W. Curtis Ass. Engr. 1st Class / Alfred Purkis Ass. Engr. 2nd Class / Per Aspera Terrent'
Details
Type: Plaque Position: to right of altar Materials: Brass Vessel: HMS Captain
People
Baldwin, Peter Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Barnes, George H. Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Curtis, Thomas W. Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer 1st Class Organisation: Royal Navy Gardiner, George P. Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer 1st Class Organisation: Royal Navy Moreton, William C. Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Purkis, Alfred Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Assistant Engineer 2nd Class Organisation: Royal Navy Pursell, Frederick Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Rock, George Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Willis, John H. Age: Date of Death: 7/9/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at St John The Evangelist’s Church, Goole commemorating the crew of the SS ‘Colne’, foundered in 1906
Location
St John The Evangelist's Church, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of twelve brave men who lost their lives in doing their duty on board the S.S. Colne which foundered in the North Sea on March 12th 1906. Edward Palmer Wells Alcock Chief Officer 48 years Robert Cleave 2nd Officer 55 yrs Robert Morley Chief Engineer 41 yrs Thos Hubert Elwood 2nd Engineer 43 yrs Harvey Abson A.B. 23 yrs Peter Frieberg A.B. unknown age Ralph Snowden Fireman 24 years Thos. Henry Middleton Fireman 33 yrs Geo. Edward Harrison Fireman 39 yrs John Smith Fireman 37 yrs Harvey Chappell Fireman 27 yrs Charles Axup Fireman 25 yrs In the midst of life we are in death... Erected by relatives of the above and a few friends who mourn their loss, Goole, June 1906'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Vessel: SS Colne
People
Abson, Harvey Age: 23 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Alcock, Edward Palmer Wells Age: 48 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Officer Organisation: Axup, Charles Age: 25 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: Chappell, Harvey Age: 27 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: Cleave, Robert Age: 55 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: 2nd Officer Organisation: Elwood, Thomas Hubert Age: 43 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: 2nd Engineer Organisation: Frieberg, Peter Age: Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Harrison, George Edward Age: 39 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: Middleton, Thomas Henry Age: 33 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: Morley, Robert Age: 41 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Smith, John Age: 37 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: Snowden, Ralph Age: 24 Date of Death: 12/3/1906 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation:
Temple in Windermere, Cumbria dedicated to Admirals Richard Howe d. 1799, Adam Duncan d. 1804, John Jervis d. 1823 and Horatio Nelson d. 1805
Location
Storrs Hotel, Windermere, Cumbria, England
Details
Description: Eight-sided gazebo in stone with a flagstaff on top, situated at the end of a jetty. Type: Temple Materials: stone Date Erected: 1804 Artists: J.M. Gandy
Event
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Duncan, Adam Age: Date of Death: 4/8/1804 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet Organisation: Royal Navy Howe, Richard Age: 73 Date of Death: 5/8/1799 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy Jervis, John Age: Date of Death: 13/3/1823 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet Organisation: Royal Navy Nelson, Horatio Age: 47 Date of Death: 21/10/1805 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Built by Sir John Legard. The 'Temple of the Heroes' owned by National Trust since 1964, it stands on the south shore of Lake Windermere at Storrs Hotel.
Tomb at St Andrew’s Church, Charmouth, commemorating Lieutenant James Warden RN d. 1792
Location
St Andrew's Church, Charmouth, Dorset, England
Transcript
'To THE MEMORY of JAMES WARDEN Esq. Who fell in a duel the 28th of April 1792 In the 56th year of his age.', 'He was created Lieutenant in the year 1760. He was in 19 engagements during the memorable expedition against the French fleet under the gallant Hawke and was present at the surrender of Belleisle. On the commencement of hostilities with America he voluntarily came forward to offer his service and was in the number of those who first landed the British Grenadiers on that shore. After escaping the various dangers inseparable from his profession, he had the misfortune to experience the untimely end above mentioned'
Warden, James Age: 56 Date of Death: 28/4/1792 Cause of Death: Killed in a duel Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Quarrelled with a neighbour over a boundary. Bibliography: J.D. Spinney 'Some Naval Memorials in Dorset', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 73, p. 194 (Greenwich,1987); George Osborn 'Dorset Curiosities' (Wimborne, 1986). Recorder: Colin Harris
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India commemorating Captain Robert Beele, d. 1821
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the Memory of the late / Captain Robert Beele / died 22nd July 1821, aged 64 years and 2 days / Boreas' blast and Neptune's waves have tossed me to and fro, / But to an anchor, I am come and safely here below / And at an anchor I do ride with many of our fleet, / And once again we shall set sail our Lord and Christ to meet.'
Details
People
Beale, Robert Age: 64 Date of Death: 22/7/1821 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.158.
