Memorial in St Mary’s Church, Appledore, Devon commemorating David Johns d. 1868
Location
St Mary’s Church, Appledore, Devon, England
Transcript
'IN REMEMBRANCE / OF / DAVID JOHNS / COMMISSION / BOATMAN, COAST GUARD, / DROWNED IN BIDEFORD BAY, / WHILST NOBLY ASSISTING / TO SAVE THE CREW OF / THE LEOPARD, / 28 DEC, 1868 / AGED 36 YEARS / ELDEST SON OF DAVID AND GRACE / JOHNS OF MILFORD HAVEN'
Details
Type: Gravestone Materials: Slate Vessel: Leopard
People
Johns, David Age: 36 Date of Death: 28/12/1868 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Boatman Organisation: HM Coastguard
Monument dedicated to those lost when the lifeboat ‘James Stevens’ capsized in 1900.
Location
Cemetery, Padstow, Cornwall, England
Details
Type: Monument Materials: Granite Vessel: James Stevens, Peace & Plenty
People
Bate, John Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Deckhand Organisation: RNLI East, Sidney Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: RNLI Grubb, David Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboat coxswain Organisation: RNLI Grubb, James Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Deckhand Organisation: RNLI Kane, Edward Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Deckhand Organisation: RNLI Martin, John Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: RNLI Old, James Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: 2nd Engineer Organisation: RNLI Stephens, Joseph Age: Date of Death: 11/4/1900 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Fireman Organisation: RNLI
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Notes: The lifeboat 'James Stevens' capsized while attempting to rescue the crew of the 'Peace & Plenty'of Lowestoft. Bibliography: Sheila Bird 'Mayday: preserving life from shipwreck off Cornwall'(Bradford, 1991)
Memorial in Margate Cemetery, Kent commemorating the nine crew of the Margate Surfboat ‘Friend to All Nations’ who died when she capsized 2nd December 1897
Location
Cemetery, Margate, Kent, England
Transcript
‘IN / MEMORY / OF / NINE HEROIC MEN / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES BY THE / CAPSIZING OF THE / MARGATE SURF BOAT / FRIEND TO ALL NATIONS / IN ATTEMPTING / TO ASSIST A VESSEL IN DISTRESS AT SEA / 2ND DEC. 1897' [on lifebelt] 'MARGATE SURF BOAT'.
Details
Description: In form of a rock. A smoothed area bears the inscription beside which is carved a mourning woman in contemporary dress holding a wreath. At the top of the rock is a life belt, anchor and tangled ropes. Type: Monument Materials: Marble Vessel: Friend to All Nations
People
Brockman, Henry Richard Age: 50 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Cook, William Age: 54 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboat coxswain Organisation: Cook, William Age: 28 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Cook, Robert Age: 26 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Crunden, Edward Age: 31 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Dike, John Age: 41 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Gill, William Age: 35 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Ladd, George Age: 38 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Troughton, Charles Age: 40 Date of Death: 2/12/1897 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation:
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Notes: Paid for by national disaster fund sponsored by the 'Daily Telegraph’
Also Memorial Statue on Margate Sea front, see M4988 Recorder: Christine Parkes
Memorial at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk commemorating Charles Mann, RNLI, d. 1931
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Charles Deerman Mann, died 15 Feb 1931 aged 60, for 26 years a member and for 12 years Coxswain of the Aldeburgh lifeboat. Frances his wife died 23 April 1921'
Details
People
Mann, Charles Deerman Age: 60 Date of Death: 15/2/1931 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Lifeboat coxswain Organisation: RNLI
Memorial in Helston, Cornwall commemorating Henry Trengrouse d. 1854
Location
Town centre, Helston, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'Gun from H.M.S. Anson wrecked on Loe bar, Porthleven 29th December 1807. This gun was salvaged by naval skin divers of the ship's company H.M.S. Seahawk. The mounting and carriage replica of the original was constructed at H.M.S. Seahawk and presented by the descendants of Henry Trengrouse of Helston inventor of the life saving line throwing apparatus as a tribute to his memory 26 November 1965'
Details
Vessel: HMS Anson
People
Trengrouse, Henry Age: Date of Death: 1854 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at the Church of the Holy Spirit, Rye Harbour commemorating the crew of the lifeboat ‘Mary Stanford’ lost in 1928
Location
Church of the Holy Spirit, Rye Harbour, East Sussex, England
Transcript
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE UNDERNAMED / 17 MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF THE RYE HARBOUR LIFE BOAT / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE 15TH NOVEMBER 1928, WHEN GALLANTLY PROCEEDING, IN / VERY ROUGH WEATHER, TO THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE 'ALICE' OF RIGA / HERBERT HEAD, AGED 47 YEARS (COXSWAIN) / JOSEPH STONHAM AGED 43 YEARS (SECOND COXSWAIN) / HENRY CUTTING, AGED 39 YEARS (BOWMAN) / ALBERT ERNEST SMITH, AGED 44 YEARS / WALTER IGGLESDEN, AGED 38 YEARS / CHARLES FREDERICK DAVID POPE, AGED 28 YEARS / ROBERTS REDVERS CUTTING, AGED 28 YEARS / WILLIAM THOMAS ALBERT CLARK, AGED 27 YEARS / ALBERT ERNEST CUTTING, AGED 26 YEARS / ARTHUR WILLIAM DOWNEY, AGED 25 YEARS / LESLIE GEORGE CLARK, AGED 24 YEARS / ROBERT HENRY POPE, AGED 23 YEARS / MORRISS JAMES DOWNEY, AGED 23 YEARS / CHARLES SOUTHERDEN, AGED 22 YEARS / LEWIS ALEXANDER POPE, AGED 21 YEARS / JAMES ALFRED HEAD, AGED 19 YEARS / JOHN STANLEY HEAD, AGED 17 YEARS / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS / THIS TABLET OF MANX STONE WAS ERECTED BY PEOPLE OF THE ISLE OF MAN / THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE ROYAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION'
Details
Description: Carved with a celtic knot border with celtic crosses in the corners. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Manx stone Vessel: Mary Stanford
People
Clark, Leslie Age: 24 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Clark, William Age: 27 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Cutting, Roberts Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Cutting, Henry Age: 39 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Bowman Organisation: Cutting, Albert Age: 26 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Downey, Morriss Age: 23 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Downey, Arthur Age: 25 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Head, Herbert Age: 47 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Coxswain Organisation: Head, James Age: 19 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Head, John Age: 17 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Igglesden, Walter Age: 38 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Pope, Charles Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Pope, Alex Age: 21 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Pope, Robert Age: 23 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Smith, Albert Age: 44 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Southerden, Charles Age: 22 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Stonham, Joseph Age: 43 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Second coxswain Organisation:
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Notes: The crew died when their lifeboat 'Mary Stanford' capsized in Rye Harbour. The boat itself washed up on the beach. Bibliography: Geoff Hutchinson 'The Mary Stanford Disaster' (Hastings, 1984).
Memorial on the South Promenade, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire commemorating the crew of the lifeboat ‘Laura Janet’ who died in 1886 attempting to rescue the crew of the ‘Mexico’
Location
South Promenade, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Transcript
'THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / IN MEMORY OF / WILLIAM JOHNSON COXSWAIN / CHARLES TIMS SUB COXSWAIN / OLIVER HODSON BOWMAN / THOMAS BONNEY / JAMES BONNEY / NICHOLAS PARKINSON / JAMES M. DOBSON / JAMES JOHNSON / RICHARD FISHER / JOHN P. WIGNALL / THOMAS PARKINSON / JAMES HARRISON / REUBEN A. TIMS / THE CREW OF THE ST ANNES LIFEBOAT / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES BY A GALLANT ATTEMPT TO RESCUE THE CREW / OF THE GERMAN BARQUE MEXICO / WRECKED OFF SOUTHPORT ON THE NIGHT OF THE 9TH DECEMBER 1886.'
Details
Description: Lifeboatman standing on a rock. Type: Memorial Date Erected: 1887 Artists: William Birnie Rhind Vessel: Laura Janet, Mexico
People
Bonney, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman Organisation: Bonney, James Age: Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman Organisation: Dobson, James M. Age: 22 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Fisher, Richard Age: 49 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Harrison, James Age: 19 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Hodson, Oliver Age: 39 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Johnson, William Age: 35 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Johnson, James Age: 45 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Parkinson, Nicholas Age: 22 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Parkinson, Thomas Age: 28 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman Organisation: Tims, Charles Age: 43 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation: Tims, Reuben Age: 30 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fish dealer Organisation: Wignall, John P. Age: 20 Date of Death: 9/12/1886 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: lifeboatman; fisherman Organisation:
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Notes: Commemorates the men of lifeboat 'Laura Janet' who were lost in an attempt to rescue the crew of the German barque 'Mexico'. The figure on the top, though intended to represent the whole crew, is supposed to have the features of the coxswain William Johnson. Signed 'W.B. RHIND. SC. EDINBURGH'. Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996), p. 84; J.C. Dibden and John Ayling 'The Book of the Lifeboat' (Edinburgh and London, 1894) p. 18.
Gravestone in Poole Cemetery, Dorset, commemorating John Hughes d. 1908
Location
Poole Cemetery, Poole, Dorset, England
Transcript
'JOHN HUGHES, / LATE COXSWAIN / POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH LIFE-BOAT. / Born June 18th 1838. / Died October 19th 1908. / Also of HARRIETT HUGHES, / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / Born August 31st 1836. / Died July 14th 1908. / LIFE-BOATMEN NEVER TURN BACK.'
Details
Description: Headstone with text engraved. Above the text is a carving of a lifeboat from the era before engines were used. The lifeboatmen are rowing through a stormy sea, with the coxswain standing at the tiller facing them and the direction of travel. The text is badly damaged. Type: Gravestone Materials: Stone
People
Hughes, John Jackson Age: 70 Date of Death: 19/10/1908 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Coxswain Organisation: RNLI
Extra
Notes: John Jackson Hughes was lifeboat coxswain at Poole for 17 years from March 1882 to September 1899. From 1882, the Poole and Bournemouth Lifeboat was named 'Boy's Own No. 2' as it was a gift from the Boy's Own Magazine. John Hughes' next lifeboat was the 'City Masonic Club' from 1897, being a donation from the freemasons of the City of London. During his tenure as coxswain, John Hughes' crew saved fifty lives. Bibliography: Hawkes, A. 'Lifeboatmen Never Turn Back.' (Poole Historical Trust, 1995). Poole Lifeboat Museum www.poole-lifeboats.org.uk. 'The Boy's Own Paper', 1882, pp. 316-7.
Memorial at St Peter’s Church, Port Royal, Jamaica commemorating Captain Augustus James Champion de Crespigny d. 1825
Location
St Peter's Church, Port Royal, Jamaica, Rest of the World
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / AUGUSTUS JAMES DE CRESPIGNY, 3D SON OF SIR W. CHN & LADY SARAH DE CRESPIGNY, / WHO DIED ON BOARD H.M.SHIP 'SCYLLA', OCT. 24TH, 1825. / CAPT DE CRESPIGNY WENT FIRST TO SEA UNDER THE / PATRONAGE OF LD. ST VINCENT, & SERVED UNDER THE FLAG / OF NELSON, AT TRAFALGAR, FROM THENCE, HE WAS TAKEN UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF LD. COLLINGWOOD, WHO MADE HIM STUDY THE DUTIES OF A SEAMAN, UNDER HIS PARTICULAR CARE. / THE ABOVE GALLANT OFFICER SAVED NO LESS THAN SIXTEEN LIVES OF HIS FELLOW CREATURES / DURING HIS NAVAL CAREER FOR WHICH HE WAS PRESENTED WITH A SERVICE OF PLATE FROM HIS SHIP'S CREW, AS WELL AS A MEDAL FROM THE R.H.S., IN THE ANNUAL REPORT OF WHICH SOCIETY AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN, THE LAST PARAGRAPH IS AS FOLLOWS: / THESE ARE TO CERTIFY TO THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY / THAT LIEUTENANT AUGUSTUS C. DE CRESPIGNY / SERVED WITH ME AS A VOLUNTEER MIDSHIPMAN FROM HIS / MAJESTY'S SHIP 'TONNANT' IN THE GUNBOAT SERVICE IN CADIZ IN 1810, / DURING WHICH TIME I HAD OPPORTUNITIES OF SEEING HIS / NOBLE CONDUCT ON THREE VERY PARTICULAR OCCASIONS. / FIRST, IN JUMPING FROM A BOAT IN A VERY STRONG TIDE WAY AND SAVING A MARINE, / SECOND, A BOY IN THE SAME WAY, AND THIRDLY, IN TAKING TO A SMALL / BOAT & PULLING INTO THE VERY MUZZLES OF THE ENEMY'S GUNS, / AND / EVIDENTLY SAVING FIVE MEN THAT WERE NEAR DROWNING, BY THE / 'ACHILLES' BARGE BEING SUNK: HIS CONDUCT ON THE LAST OCCASION / WAS SO TRULY NOBLE THAT HE NOT ONLY GAINED THE ADMIRATION OF THE / WHOLE FLOTILLA BUT THE ENVY OF THE FRENCH COMMANDING / OFFICER, WHO AT LAST ORDERED HIS MEN TO CEASE FIRING ON HIM. / GIVEN UNDER MY HAND, THIS 12TH DAY OF JULY 1815, WEST COWES, G.W. SARMON. / THIS TRIBUTE TO A FATHER'S MEMORY WAS ERECTED BY HIS ELDEST SON, SIR CLAUDE CHN. DE CRESPIGNY, BT. 1841'
Details
Date Erected: 1841
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Champion de Crespigny, Augustus James Age: 34 Date of Death: 24/10/1825 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: The letter to the Royal Humane Society quoted was from Commander George Wood Sarmon, who was a Lieutenant at the time of the incident in 1810. The RHS report of 1816 also includes letters from Thomas Forrest and Rear Admiral Francis Laforey in support of an award to Augustus de Crespigny, also dated 1815. Captain de Crespigny died of yellow fever. Bibliography: Captain J.H. Lawrence-Archer 'Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies' (London, 1875) p.291.
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