Category Archives: Exploration

Fitzford end of Plymouth Road (A386), Tavistock, Devon, England

Statue in Plymouth Road, Tavistock, Devon depicting Sir Francis Drake, d. 1596

Location

Fitzford end of Plymouth Road (A386), Tavistock, Devon, England

Transcript

'ARMADA 1588, ' SIR FRANCIS DRAKE / THE FAMOUS NAVIGATOR AND ADMIRAL / WAS BORN IN CROWNDALE IN TAVISTOCK / PARISH ABOUT 1542 / AND DIED AT SEA 1596 / THIS STATUE BY JOSEPH EDGAR BOEHM / WAS ERECTED IN 1883 / THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF HASTINGS / NINTH DUKE OF BEDFORD.'

Details

Description: Full-length holding compasses, globe behind. Three bas-reliefs on the base depict the game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe, his knighting by Queen Elizabeth and Drake's burial at sea. Cast by Drew & Co/Moore & Co, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Type: Statue
Materials: Bronze
Date Erected: 27/9/1883
Artists: Joseph Boehm

People

Drake, Francis
Age: c.55
Date of Death: 28/1/1596
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: privateer; explorer
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: A statue of Sir Francis Drake by Andreas Friedrich had been erected at Offenburg in Germany in 1854. Confusing him with Sir Walter Raleigh, it credited him with introducing the potato to Europe. This statue was destroyed prior to the Second World War. The Tavistock statue was the first to be put up in England.
Bibliography: R.G. Harry 'Tavistock Sir Francis Drake's Statue and Medal'.

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Exploration, Vessel Loss

Brandon Hill, Bristol, England

Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill, Bristol, commemorating John Cabot d. 1498

Location

Brandon Hill, Bristol, England

Transcript

'The fourth centenary of the discovery of America in June 1487 by John Cabot, who left the shore with a Bristol crew.'

Details

Description: Carved with the arms of the Bristol Merchant Adventurers and the number 400 in Roman numerals.

Type: Tower
Materials: Red sandstone, Bath stone
Date Erected: 1897
Artists: William Venn Gough

Event Category

English colonization of North America

People

Cabot, John
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: circa 1500
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown
Cabot, Sebastian
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 1557
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Erected to mark the 400th anniverary of Cabot's voyage to North America. There is also a plaque at the harbour at Bristol, statue in front of the Civic Hall. A whalebone in St Mary Redcliffe is said to have been brought back in 1497.

Bibliography: 'Illustrated London News' 1 October 1898 p. 490.

David B. Quinn, ‘Cabot, John (c.1451–1498)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66135, accessed 7 June 2017]

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Exploration

Gisborne, New Zealand, Rest of the World

Statue in Gisborne, New Zealand of Captain James Cook RN d. 1779

Location

Gisborne, New Zealand, Rest of the World

Details

Description: Full-length statue in uniform and hat.
Type: Statue
Materials: Bronze
Artists: Anthony Stones

People

Cook, James
Age: 51
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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Exploration

Bicentennial Park, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, Rest of the World

Statue in the Bicentennial Park, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia depicting Captain James Cook RN d. 1779

Location

Bicentennial Park, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, Rest of the World

Transcript

'JAMES COOK / 1728 - 1779 / COMMANDER, H.M.B. "ENDEAVOUR" / WHICH WAS BEACHED AND REPAIRED NEAR THIS SITE 17 JUNE - 4 AUGUST, 1770 / "HE LEFT NOTHING UNATTEMPTED" / THIS STATUE WAS COMMISSIONED BY / BP AUSTRALIA AS A BICENTENNIAL GIFT / TO THE PEOPLE OF COOKTOWN / AND UNVEILED BY MR. A. W. GORRIE / CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD / SATURDAY, 25 JUNE 1988'

Details

Description: Cook full-length in uniform holding a telescope in his raised right hand and a rolled chart in his left.
Type: Statue
Position: Beside Endeavour river
Materials: Bronze on stone plinth
Date Erected: 1988
Artists: Stanley Hammond
Vessel: HMB Endeavour

People

Cook, James
Age: 51
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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Exploration

The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England

Memorial in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire commemorating Captain James Cook d. 1779

Location

The Vache, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England

Transcript

'To the memory of Captain James Cook / the ablest and most renowned Navigator this or any country hath produced', 'He raised himself solely by his merit / from a very obscure birth, to the rank / of a Post Captain in the Royal Navy,and / was unfortunately killed by the Savages / of the island Owhyee on the 14th of / February 1779; which island he had not / long before discovered, when prosecuting / his third voyage round the globe. / He possessed, in an eminent degree, all / the qualifications requisite for his / profession and great undertakings; / together with the amiable and worthy / qualities of the best men. Cool and / deliberate in judging: sagacious in / determining; active in executing:[steady and persevering in enterprising / from vigilance and unremitting caution:] / unsubdued by labour, difficulties and / disappointments: fertile in expedients: / never wanting presence of mind: always / possessing himself, and the full use of / a sound understanding: / Mild, just, but exact in discipline: / he was a father to his people who were / attached to him from affection, and / obedient from confidence. He explored / the Southern hemisphere to a much / higher latitude than had ever been / reached, and with fewer accidents than / frequently befall those who navigate / the coasts of this island. / By his benevolent and unabating attention / to the welfare of his ship's company, he / discovered and introduced a system for / the preservation of the health of seamen / on long voyages, which has proved / wonderfully efficacious for, in his / second voyage round the world, which / continued upwards of three years, he / lost only one man by distemper, of one / hundred and eighteen, of which his / company consisted. / The object of his last mission was to / discover and ascertain the boundaries / of Asia and America, and to penetrate / into the Northern Ocean by the North / East Cape of Asia. Traveller! contemplate / admire, revere, and emulate this great/master in his profession, whose skill and/labours have enlarged natural philosophy: / have extended nautical science: and have / disclosed the long concealed and admirable/arrangements of the Almighty in the / formation of this globe, and, at the same / time, the arrogance of mortals, in presuming / to account by their speculations for the laws / by which he was pleased to create it. It is / now discovered beyond all doubt, that the / same Great Being who created the universe by/his FIAT, by the same ordained our earth to/keep a just poise, without a corresponding / Southern Continent-and it does so! / "he stretcheth out the North over the empty / place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" / Job XXVI.7. If the arduous but exact / researches of this extraordinary man have / not discovered a new world, they have / discovered seas unnavigated and unknown / before. They have made us acquainted with / islands, people and productions of which / we had no conception. And if he has not / been so fortunate as Americus to give his / name to a continent, his pretensions to / such a distinction remain unrivaled, and / he will be revered while there remains a / page of his own modest account of his / voyages and as long as mariners and / geographers shall be instructed, by his / new map of the Southern hemisphere to trace / the various courses and discoveries he has / made. If public services merit public / acknowledgements, if the man who adorned / and raised the fame of his countryis / deserving of honours, then Captain COOK / deserves to have a monument raised to his / memory by a generous and grateful nation. / Virtutis uberrimum alimentum est honos. / VAL MAXIMUS, Lib 2 Cap 6.'

Details

Description: A globe on a plinth.
Type: Memorial

People

Cook, James
Age: 50
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Hugh Palliser erected the monument. The epitaph was written by Admiral the Hon. John Forbes. DOSSIER.
Bibliography: Monica Harcourt-Smith 'A Short History of the Vache-Chalfont St Giles'.
Recorder: D.J. McCullough 1993; A.J. Richardson 1983

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Exploration

Central Gardens, Middlesborough, England

Memorial in Central Gardens, Middlesborough commemorating Captain James Cook RN d. 1799

Location

Central Gardens, Middlesborough, England

Transcript

'We had every advantage we could desire in observing the whole passage of the planet Venus over the sun's disc'.

Details

Description: A lattice-like steel structure in the form of a leaning bottle embedded in the ground. It has a steel cork. The outer lattice is in the form of a handwritten message (from the log of Cook's first voyage to the South Seas). The inner message arranged in a spiral is a poem.
Type: Sculpture
Materials: Steel
Date Erected: 1993
Artists: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen
Vessel: HMB Endeavor

People

Cook, James
Age: 51
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Cost £135, 000.
Bibliography: Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach, Catherine Morris 'Public Sculpture in North-East England' (Liverpool University Press, 2000) p. 292.

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Exploration

St Fagin's Church, Cardiff, Wales

Gravestone at St Fagin’s Church, Cardiff commemorating Frederick Arthur Boore d. 1936

Location

St Fagin's Church, Cardiff, Wales

Transcript

'Frederick Arthur Boore, master mariner and explorer born 5 Jan 1857 died 18 December 1936'

Details

Type: Gravestone

People

Boore, Frederick
Age:
Date of Death: 18/12/1936
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner. Explorer
Organisation:

Extra

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Exploration

Hoad Hill, Ulverston, Lancashire, England

Tower in the shape of a lighthouse at Hoad Hill, Ulverston, Lancashire commemorating John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty d. 1848

Location

Hoad Hill, Ulverston, Lancashire, England

Transcript

Plaque inside: 'KEEPERS OF THE MONUMENT ROBERT AFFLECK 1850-1860, WILLIAM JONES, LATE ARCTIC YACHT FOX 1860-1862, EDWARD RITSON 1862-1879. JOHN H. PETERS 1879-1895. GEORGE WINWARD 1895-1898. JOHN TYSON 1898-' Inscribed in upper dome: 'Dease, Simpson, Collinson, Kellett, Rae, Austin, Penny, McClure, Inglefield, Bellot, Parry, Franklin, Crozier, Fitzjames, McClintock, Allen, Young, Devereaux [Des Voeux], Kane, Ross, Back, Nares, Markham, Hall, Greely, Sabine, Richards, Beechey, Belcher.'

Details

Description: Tower in the shape of a lighthouse.
Type: Tower
Materials: Stone
Artists: Andrew Trimen

People

Barrow, John
Age:
Date of Death: 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Second Secretary to the Admiralty
Organisation: Admiralty

Extra

Notes: Builders Messrs Brocklebank, Mr Smith
Bibliography: David Saunders 'Britain's Maritme Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996)

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  "post_id": "1880",
  "id": "M6035",
  "location": "Hoad Hill, Ulverston, Lancashire, England",
  "transcript": "Plaque inside: 'KEEPERS OF THE MONUMENT ROBERT AFFLECK 1850-1860, WILLIAM JONES, LATE ARCTIC YACHT FOX 1860-1862, EDWARD RITSON 1862-1879. JOHN H. PETERS 1879-1895. GEORGE WINWARD 1895-1898. JOHN TYSON 1898-' Inscribed in upper dome: 'Dease, Simpson, Collinson, Kellett, Rae, Austin, Penny, McClure, Inglefield, Bellot, Parry, Franklin, Crozier, Fitzjames, McClintock, Allen, Young, Devereaux [Des Voeux], Kane, Ross, Back, Nares, Markham, Hall, Greely, Sabine, Richards, Beechey, Belcher.'",
  "content": "<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"313\" src=\"http://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M6035Medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7692\" srcset=\"https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M6035Medium.jpg 200w, https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M6035Medium-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" /></figure>\n\n\n<p>Tower in the shape of a lighthouse at Hoad Hill, Ulverston, Lancashire commemorating John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty d. 1848</p>",
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Sea front, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, Rest of the World

Statue in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia depicting Captain James Cook RN d. 1779

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Sea front, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, Rest of the World

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'CAPTAIN COOK / H.M.S. ENDEAVOUR / AUGUST 23RD 1768', 'PRESENTED BY / ANDREW STENHOUSE / 3RD DECEMBER 1914'

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Description: Cook in uniform, rolled chart under left arm. A list of the crew of 'Endeavour' on the pedestal.
Type: Statue
Position: Jacka Boulevarde, Catani Gardens
Materials: Bronze
Date Erected: 1914
Artists: John Tweed
Vessel: HMS Endeavour

People

Cook, James
Age: 51
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Notes: Copy of the statue at Whitby.

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Easby Moor, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England

Memorial on Easby Moor, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire commemorating Captain James Cook RN d. 1779

Location

Easby Moor, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England

Transcript

'In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. Regardless of danger he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. He was born at Marton Oct. 27th 1728 and massacred at Owythee Feb. 14th 1779 to the inexpressible grief of his countrymen. While the art of navigation shall be cultivated among men, whilst the spirit of enterprise, commerce and philanthropy shall animate the sons of Britain, while it shall be deemed the honour of a Christian Nation to spread civilisation and the blessings of the Christian faith among pagan and savage tribes, so long will the name of Captain Cook stand out amongst the most celebrated and most admired benefactors of the human race. '

Details

Type: Obelisk
Materials: Sandstone
Date Erected: 1827
Vessel: HMB Endeavor

People

Cook, James
Age: 51
Date of Death: 14/2/1779
Cause of Death: Killed by indigenous people
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Erected by local landowner Robert Campion.
Bibliography: 'The Builder' 3 Aug 1895 p. 79 (repairs to the memorial); David Saunders 'Britain's Maritime Memorials and Mementoes'(Yeovil, 1996); p.53 http://en.wikipedia.org

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters