Gravestone at St Mary’s Church, Whitby commemorating John Storr, lifeboat coxswain d. 1861
Location
St Mary's Church, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'ERECTED / IN REMEMBRANCE OF / JOHN STORR, COXSWAIN / WHO WAS DROWNED / WITH ELEVEN OTHERS / BY THE UPSETTING OF THE / LIFE BOAT AT WHITBY / FEBRUARY 8TH 1861 / AND INTERRED HERE / APRIL 28TH 1861 / AGED 50 YEARS / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS / THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS / ALSO ELIZABETH HIS WIFE / WHO DIED JULY 18TH 1877 / AGED 70 YEARS / AND WAS INTERRED AT THE CEMETERY'
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Description: Carved with Ionic pillasters on either side, and a fringe of leaves across the top. Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Sandstone
People
Storr, John Age: 50 Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboat coxswain Organisation:
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Notes: The gravestone (presumably endangered by the erosion of the neighbouring cliffs), has been propped against the side of the church.
Wall tablet at St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating Captain John McNeill Boyd d. 1861
Location
St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN JOHN MC.NEILL BOYD / OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP AJAX / AND COMMANDING THE DUBLIN DISTRICT / OF THE IRISH COAST GUARD, / WHO PERISHED WITH FIVE OF HIS CREW / WHEN NOBLY ENDEAVOURING TO SAVE THE LIVES OF / SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN / IN A STORM AT KINGSTOWN, IRELAND, / FEBRUARY, 9TH, 1861.' [Base] 'THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED IN HIGH APPRECIATION OF HIS SERVICES / AND ADMIRATION FOR HIS CHARACTER / BY HIS BROTHER OFFICERS OF HER MAJESTY'S NAVY'
Details
Description: The inscription on a carved scroll, a carved wreath above. The base on brackets carved with scallop shells. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Ajax
People
Boyd, John McNeill Age: 49 Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: HM Coastguard
Gravestone at St Stephen’s Old Church, Fylingthorpe commemorating Edward Gillins d. 1844
Location
St Stephen's Old Church, Fylingthorpe, East Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'In memory of / EDWARD GILLINS who was / unfortunately drowned with the / upsetting of the Life Boat in attempt / ing to save the crew belonging to the Brig / Ann of London on the rocks near RH Bay / February 4 1843 aged 31 years / Also MARTHA his wife died July 9th 1844 aged 26 years / Also of ISABELL daughter of EDWARD and MARTHA GILLINS / who died Nov ... 1843 aged [2] years'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: North Yorkshire Vessel: Ann
People
Gillins, Edward Age: 31 Date of Death: 4/2/1843 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation:
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Notes: From Robin Hood's Bay Bibliography: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stormrhb
Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Monkstown, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland commemorating Captain John McNeill Boyd RN and other men of the coastguard, lost in a lifesaving attempt in 1861
Location
St Mary's Church, Monkstown, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Transcript
'In memory of Captain John McNeill Boyd R.N.; John Curry, Able Seaman; Thomas Murray, Able Seaman; John Russell, ordinary seaman, James Johnson, ordinary seaman; Alexander Forsythe, ordinary seaman; who lost their lives on the outside of the east pier at Kingstown, in noble efforts to rescue the crew of the wrecked brig Neptune, during a fearful gale from the E.N.E. on the 9th February 1861. To commemorate the death of six brave sailors of H.M.S. Ajax this monument is raised. The providence of God ordained that they should die, not on board their ship defending their country, but as Christian men seeking to save their perishing brethren. They glorified God, whose waves went over them, by a death not unmeet for Christian Britain. Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends. John IV. 13. Erected by the Commodore Hastings R Yelverton, C.B. Controller-General of the Coast Guard, the officers and ship's company (including tenders) of H.M.S. Ajax and the officers and men of the Kingstown district Coast Guard.'
Details
Description: A broken mast on a rectangular plinth. Type: Monument Position: Churchyard Vessel: HMS Ajax
People
Boyd, John McNeill Age: 49 Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Curry, John Age: Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Forsythe, Alexander Age: Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Johnson, James Age: Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Murray, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Russell, John Age: Date of Death: 9/2/1861 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Captain Royal Navy, HMS 'Ajax', drowned in attempt to rescue crew of 'Neptune' during hurricane. Memorial also commemorates crew members lost at the same time who are buried in this cemetery. Bibliography: 'Illustrated London News' (5 Oct 1861), p357. Recorder: Christine Parkes, 5/3/1982
Drinking fountain at Loch Promenade, Douglas, Isle of Man commemorating David Kewley d. 1904, lifesaver
Location
Loch Promenade, Douglas, Isle of Man
Details
Type: Drinking fountain
People
Kewley, David Age: 54 Date of Death: 1904 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Mooring man Organisation: Isle of Man Steam Packet Co
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Notes: Saved 24 lives from drowning. Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal. Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 134.
Memorial tile at Postman’s Park, City of London commemorating Edmund Emery d. 1874
Location
St Botolph's Church, Postman's Park, London, England
Transcript
'EDMUND EMERY OF / 272 KING'S ROAD CHELSEA / PASSENGER / LEAPT FROM A THAMES / STEAMBOAT TO RESCUE A / CHILD AND WAS DROWNED / JULY 31 1874'
Details
Description: Painted tile. Type: Memorial tile Position: Churchyard Materials: Tile Artists: William de Morgan, Ernest George
People
Emery, Edmund Age: Date of Death: 31/7/1874 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Notes: The tiles are set in a memorial loggia or cloister set up at his own expense by the painter and sculptor G. F. Watts in 1899. Bibliography: Philip Ward-Jackson 'Public Sculpture of the City of London' (Liverpool, 2003)pp. 295-97
Memorial in Paul, Cornwall dedicated to the crew of the lifeboat ‘Solomon Brown’ lost in 1981.
Location
St Paulinus Church, Paul, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'TO COMMEMORATE THE LOSS OF THE CREW / OF THE PENLEE LIFEBOAT SOLOMON BROWNE / ATTEMPTING TO SAVE THE CREW OF THE / UNION STARR OFF BOSCAWEN CLIFFS / 19 DECEMBER 1981 / COXSWAIN WILLIAM TREVELYAN RICHARDS / JAMES STEPHEN MADRON / NIGEL BROCKMAN / JOHN ROBERT BLEWETT / CHARLES THOMAS GREENHAUGH / KEVIN SMITH / BARRIE ROBERTSON TORRIE / GARY LEE WALLIS'
Details
Description: Bronze plaque on a granite plinth that supports a chalice within a lantern
Type: Memorial Position: interior Materials: granite, bronze Vessel: Solomon Browne, Union Star
People
Blewitt, John Robert Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Brockman, Nigel Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Greenhaugh, Charles James Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Madron, James Stephen Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Richards, William Trevelyan Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Coxswain Organisation: RNLI Smith, Kevin Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Torrie, Barrie Robertson Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Wallis, Gary Lee Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1981 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI
Statue and grave at Rye Harbour, East Sussex commemorating the crew of the lifeboat ‘Mary Stanford’ lost 1928
Location
Church of the Holy Spirit, Rye Harbour, East Sussex, England
Transcript
'WE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS OUR DUTY TO DO', 'TO THE MEMORY OF / THE 17 BRAVE / MEN, THE CREW OF THE / MARY STANFORD LIFE / BOAT WHO PERISHED / IN A HEAVY GALE WHILE / GALLANTLY RESPONDING/TO THE CALL FOR HELP / FROM THE SS ALICE OF / RIGA ON THE MORNING OF / THE 15th NOVEMBER 1928' [On plaques round the grave] 'CHARLES SOUTHERDEN AGED 22 YEARS', 'LESLIE GEORGE CLARK AGED 24 YEARS', 'WILLIAM THOMAS ALBERT CLARK AGED 27 YEARS', 'WALTER IGGLESDEN AGED 38 YEARS', 'LEWIS ALEXANDER POPE AGED 21 YEARS', 'ROBERT HENRY POPE AGED 23 YEARS', 'CHAS FREDERICK DAVID POPE AGED 28 YEARS', ' JOSEPH STONHAM (2ND COXSWAIN) AGED 43 YEARS', 'HERBERT HEAD (COXSWAIN OF LIFEBOAT) AGED 47 YEARS', 'HENRY CUTTING (BOWMAN) AGED 39 YEARS', 'JOHN STANLEY HEAD AGED 17 YEARS', ' JAMES ALFRED HEAD AGED 19 YEARS', ' MORRISS DOWNEY AGED 23 YEARS', 'ARTHUR WILLIAM DOWNEY AGED 25 YEARS', 'ALBERT ERNEST SMITH AGED 44 YEARS', 'ALBERT ERNEST CUTTING AGED 26 YEARS', 'ROBERT REDVERS CUTTING AGED
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Description: Full-length statue of a lifeboatman. Type: Memorial Position: Churchyard Materials: Stone Date Erected: 1931 Vessel: Mary Stanford
People
Clark, Leslie George Age: 24 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Clark, William Thomas Albert Age: 27 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Cutting, Henry Age: 39 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Cutting, Albert Ernest Age: 26 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboat Organisation: RNLI Cutting, Robert Redvers Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Downey, Morriss Age: 25 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Downey, Arthur William Age: 25 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Head, John Stanley Age: 17 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI head, James Alfred Age: 19 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Head, Herbert Age: 47 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Igglesden, Walter Age: 21 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Pope, Lewis Alexander Age: 21 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Pope, Robert Henry Age: 23 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Pope, Charles Frederick David Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Smith, Albert Ernest Age: 44 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI 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: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI
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Bibliography: Geoff Hutchinson 'The Mary Stanford Disaster' (Hastings, 1984) David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 103 (photograph). Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Window in the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Winchelsea dedicated to the crew of the lifeboat ‘Mary Stanford’ d. 1928
Location
Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Winchelsea, East Sussex, England
Transcript
'WILLIAM AND LESLIE CLARK, CHARLES ROBERT AND ALEX POPE, WALTER IGGLESDEN, ALBERT SMITH, CHARLES SOUTHERDEN, HERBERT HEAD 1ST COX, JOSEPH STONHAM 2ND COX, JAMES AND JOHN HEAD, HENRY CUTTING BOWMAN, ROBERT AND ERNEST CUTTING, ARTHUR AND MORRIS DOWNEY THESE MEN OF RYE HARBOUR CREW OF THE LIFEBOAT MARY STANFORD HAVING CONFIRMED BY THE HABIT OF A NOBLE SERVICE THE COURAGE HANDED DOWN TO THEM BY THEIR FATHERS WERE QUICK TO HEAR THE CRY OF HUMANITY ABOVE THE ROARING OF THE SEA IN THE DARKNESS OF THEIR SUPREME HOUR THEY STAYED NOT TO WEIGH DOUBT OR DANGER BUT FREELY OFFERING THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE FOR THE RANSOM OF MEN WHOM THEY HAD NEVER KNOWN THEY WENT BOLDLY INTO THE LAST OF ALL THEIR STORMS THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED IN TRUST FOR ENGLAND THE MEMORY OF THEIR FAITHFULNESS AND LOVING KINDNESS'
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Description: Stained glass window of three lights depicting St Nicholas, St Augustine, Christ calming the storm. A family waiting on the shore beside a stormy sea below. Type: Window Artists: Douglas Strachan Vessel: Mary Stanford
People
Clark, William Age: 27 Date of Death: 15/11/1928 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: Clark, Leslie Age: 24 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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Bibliography: Geoff Hutchinson 'The Mary Stanford Disaster' (Hastings, 1984).
Memorial at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk commemorating crew of the Lifeboat ‘Aldeburgh’, which capsized with the loss of seven crew members on 7th December 1899
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'ON DECEMBER 7TH 1899, IN RESPONSE TO / SIGNALS OF DISTRESS A CREW OF 18 BRAVE / MEN MANNED A LIFEBOAT "ALDEBURGH" / WHICH WAS SPEADILY LAUNCHED IN THE TEETH OF / AN EASTERLY GALE AND A HEAVY ROLLING SEA / AT DUTY'S CALL TO RESCUE OTHERS; / WITH THEIR OWN LIVES IN THEIR HANDS, / THESE BRAVE MEN WENT AFLOAT WHEN ALAS! / THE BOAT CAPSIZING SEVEN OF THEM MET THEIR / END AND LIE BURIED HERE. / BY A LARGE FUND PROMPTLY RAISED TO PROVIDE / FOR THOSE THUS SUDDENLY BEREFT, AS WELL AS / BY THE MONUMENT, FELLOW TOWNSMEN AND / FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, NEAR AND FAR PAID TRIBUTE / TO AN EXAMPLE OF NOBLE SELF-FORGETFULNESS' [Individual crosses] 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / JOHN BUTCHER / AGED 52 / 'DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY', 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / CHARLES CRISP / AGED 51 / 'GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN', 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / THOMAS MORRIS / AGED 38 / ' I WILL TRUST AND NOT BE AFRAID', 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / WALTER GEORGE WARD / AGED 37 / 'THY WILL BE DONE', 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / HERBERT WILLIAM DOWNING / AGED 23 / 'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH', 'IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / JAMES MILLER WARD / AGED 21 / 'THE LORD HATH NEED OF HIM', ''IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / ALLAN ARTHURS EASTER / AGED 26 / 'GOD IS LOVE'.
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Description: A cross on top of a large rock on which are carved, lifejackets, coiled rope, a lifebuoy and blocks. Seven individual marble crosses have leaded inscriptions to the casualties. Type: Memorial Position: Churchyard Materials: Marble Artists: R. Andre Vessel: Aldeburgh
People
Butcher, John Age: 52 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Crisp, Charles Age: 51 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Downing, Herbert William Age: 23 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Easter, Allan Arthurs Age: 26 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Morris, Thomas Age: 36 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Ward, Walter Age: 33 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI Ward, James Miller Age: 21 Date of Death: 7/12/1899 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lifeboatman Organisation: RNLI
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Notes: Sighted 2008. Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
