Memorial to passengers and crew of ‘Annie Jane’ wrecked Vatersay, 1853.
Location
Bagh Siar, Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Transcript
'THE SHIP ANNIE JANE / WITH EMIGRANTS / FROM LIVERPOOL TO QUEBEC / WAS TOTALLY WRECKED / IN THIS BAY / AND THREE FOURTHS / OF THE CREW AND PASSENGERS / NUMBERING ABOUT 350 / MEN WOMEN AND CHILDRED / WERE DROWNED / AND THEIR BODIES INTERRED HERE' [base] 'AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD / WHICH WERE IN IT REV. XX 13'
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Type: Obelisk Materials: Granite Vessel: Annie Jane
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Notes: 'Annie Jane' an emigrant ship bound for Quebec from Liverpool, driven onshore at Vatersay with the loss of about 348 casualties on 28 September 1853..
Memorial to the loss of the emigrant ship ‘Exmouth’ 1847, on Islay.
Location
Islay, Argyle and Bute, Scotland
Transcript
'THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE / MEMORY OF 241 IRISH EMIGRANTS WHO / LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE 28TH OF APRIL / 1847, WHEN THE BRIG THE EXMOUTH OF / NEWCASTLE OUT OF DERRY AND BOUND / FOR QUEBEC CANADA AT THE TIME OF / THE GREAT FAMINE, WAS WRECKED ON / THE N/W COAST OF ISLAY, 108 BODIES, / MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN (63 / UNDER THE AGE OF 14, AND 9 INFANTS) / WERE RECOVERED AND ARE BURIED / UNDER THE SOFT GREEN TURF OF /TRAIGH BHAN / MAY THEIR SOULs REST IN THE / PEACE OF CHRIST', 'MEMORIAL FUNDED BY / THE IRELAND FUND OF GT. BRITAIN.'
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Description: A bronze plaque on a stone cairn within a gated and walled enclosure. A Celtic cross above the plaque and on the gate. Type: Memorial Materials: Sone; bronze Vessel: 'Exmouth'
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Bibliography: Richard E. Keys 'Dictionary of Tyne Sailing Ships' (1998) Recorder: David Hodge
Wall tablet at St George’s Church, Beckenham commemorating members of the Dennis family who died in the wreck of the emigrant ship ‘Northfleet’ in 1873
Location
St George's Church, Beckenham, London, England
Transcript
'CATHERINE ANN, daughter of James Dennis, / Sexton of Beckenham, and Catherine his wife; / Thomas Webb, her husband, and their three / infant children, Henry, Thomas Frederick, and / Mary Elizabeth, were all drowned, together / with nearly three hundred more, on the night, / of January 22ND, 1873, in the emigrant ship / Northfleet, wrecked off Dungeness when / outward bound for Australia. / Their neighbours / have erected this tablet to their memory. / 'It is I; be not afraid'. / Matthew. xiv-27'
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Description: Plain rectangular tablet in mottled marble. Type: Wall tablet Position: South aisle lower Materials: Marble Vessel: Northfleet
People
Webb, Catherine Ann Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Henry Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Mary Elizabeth Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Thomas Frederick Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating John Doughty d. 1856
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'John Doughty, son of Thomas and Ann Doughty, who was drowned with his wife and daughter on their passage from Melbourne to New Zealand, November 1856 age 35'
Details
People
Doughty, John Age: 35 Date of Death: 11/1856 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Notes: From an MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d.1886, vol. 8, p. 817. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
Memorial at Broad Street, Portsmouth commemorating the settlement of Virginia in 1587
Location
Sally Port, Broad Street, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'Commemorates the sailing from Portsmouth on the 26th of April 1587 of 91 men, 187 woman & 9 children who were sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to the area then called Virginia- now called North Carolina. On Roanoke Island they built the 'Cittie of Raleigh' the first English Village in America. The colony known as Ralegh's Lost Colony disappeared between 1587-90'
Memorial at St Saviour’s Church, Norwich, Norfolk commemorating John Hayden Brownfield d. 1858
Location
St Saviour's Church, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Transcript
'John Hayden Brownfield / Surgeon in the Government Emigration Service / who died at sea on board the ship 'Alfred' 7 Sept 1858 aged 33 years'
Details
Vessel: 'Alfred'
People
Brownfield, John Hayden Age: 33 Date of Death: 7/9/1858 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Surgeon Organisation: Government Emigration Service
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Notes: ‘Alfred', formerly ‘Asia', 50, 4th rate. Built at Frindsbury, 1811. East Indies, February 1831-35. Flagship at rescue of ‘Gorgon', stranded 1843. 4th rate target ship at Portsmouth, 1863.
Memorial formerly at St Nicholas’s Church, Deptford, London commemorating Captain George Shelvocke RN d. 1742
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, England
Transcript
'Here lyeth the body of Captain George Shelvocke descended of an ancient family in Shropshire; but long an inhabitant of this town. He was bred to the sea service, under Admiral Benbow, and served on board of the Royal Navy in the wars of King William and Queen Anne. In the years of our Lord 1719, 20, 21 and 22 he performed a voyage round the globe of the world, which he most wonderfully, and to the great loss of the Spaniards compleated, though in the midst of it he had the misfortune to suffer shipwreck upon the Island of Juan Fernandez on the coast of the Kingdom of Chili. He was a gentleman of great abilities in his profession and allowed to have been one of the bravest and most accomplished seamen of his time. He departed this life in London Nov 30 1742 in the 67 year of his age'
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Type: Chest-tomb Position: Churchyard near east wall
People
Shelvocke, George Age: 66 Date of Death: 30/11/1742 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Memorial now destroyed. A wall tablet in the chancel commemorates Shelvocke's son George d. 1760 aged 58 who accompanied his father on his circumnavigation. Bibliography: J. Summerson 'Monuments in St Nicholas Deptford', 'Mariners Mirror' vol. 27, p. 281 (Cambridge,1941); Daniel Lysons 'The Environs of London' vol. iv, p. 364 (London, 1792-6); A.E. Daniell 'London Riverside Churches', p. 309 (London, 1897).
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Charles William Lees d. 1891 in the loss of the ‘Utopia’
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Emma Isabella Humble Leighton, died November 6th 1857, aged 9 years. Also Mary Leighton, Mother of the above, who died 28 Sept. 1872, aged 66. Also Elizabeth Lees, daughter of the above, born 14 November 1846, died 13 April 1876. Also Robert Gibson Leighton, Second son of William Leighton and the above Mary Leighton, born 7th October 1842, died 24th. April 1879, on board the S.S. 'AFRICA', on his way home from Lagos to Liverpool, and was on the same day buried at sea off Whydah. Also Captain CHARLES WILLIAM LEES (Second Officer), grandson of Captain William Humble Leighton,of this port,born 2nd April 1861 lost in Gibraltar Bay through the foundering of S.S. 'UTOPIA' 17 March 1891'
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Type: Headstone Position: H481 Vessel: SS Africa, SS Utopia
People
Lees, Charles William Age: 29 Date of Death: 17/3/1891 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Second Officer Organisation: Anchor Line Leighton, Robert Gibson Age: Date of Death: 24/4/1879 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Notes: SS 'Utopia' on a voyage from Trieste to New York carrying Italian emigrants when she sank after a collision with HMS 'Anson' off Gibraltar with the loss of 582 lives. Recorder: Martin Davies 1985
Wall tablet at St Clement’s Church, Hastings commemorating Arthur William Ticehurst d. 1866 in the loss of the ‘London’
Location
St Clement's Church, Hastings, East Sussex, England
Transcript
'In memory of Arthur William eldest surviving son of Frederick Ticehurst Esq. Mayor of Hastings. He lost his life at sea in the 28th year of his age while engaged in the active and faithful performance of his duty being first officer of the merchant steam ship 'London' which foundered in the Bay of Biscay with 239 souls on board January 11th 1866. Thy way is in the sea and Thy path is in the great waters, Psalm LXX VII 19. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, Rev.XX.13. This tablet was erected by public subscription as an expression of respect for the early death of...'
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Description: Carved with gothic tracery. Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Vessel: SS London
People
Ticehurst, Arthur William Age: 27 Date of Death: 11/1/1866 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: First Officer Organisation: Money Wigram & Sons
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Notes: SS 'London' foundered in the Bay of Biscay in bad weather, due to her cargo shifting. She was on a voyage from Gravesend to Melbourne. Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1988
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