Wall tablet in Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire commemorating Sir John Richardson d. 1865
Location
Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire, England
Transcript
In Memory of / Sir John Richardson / CB RN MD Gold medallist: Royal Society: FRGS / Physician 1838 / Inspector Of Hospitals And Fleets 1840 / Born 5 November 1787 Died 5 June 1865 / Present At The Blockade Of Copenhagen 1807 Promoted For Gallantry / During A Night Attack On A French Brigade On The Tagus 1808. Campaign In / Georgia 1815. Second In Command Of Sir John Franklin's Expedition To The / Arctic Coast Of America 1819-22 When Terrible Hardships Were Suffered / And Again 1825-7 When He Discovered The Coast Between The Mackenzie And Coppermine Rivers / Commanded A Search Expedition After Franklin 1848-9 Author Of The Fauna Boreali / Americana And Other Scientific Works / Not Once Or twice In Our Rough Island Story / The Path Of Duty Was The One To Glory'
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Type: Wall tablet Position: St Luke's Church
People
Richardson, John Age: 78 Date of Death: 5/6/1865 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Quotation: Alfred Lord Tennyson 'Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington' (St 8).
Memorial at Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh commemorating Robert Anstruther Goodsir d. 1895
Location
Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transcript
'ROBERT ANSTRUTHER / GOODSIR M.D. / ARCTIC EXPLORER / AND TRAVELLER / WHO IN 1849 SAILED / IN THE SHIP 'ADVANCE' / IN SEARCH OF THE / FRANKLIN EXPEDITION / AND AGAIN IN 1850 / AS SURGEON / ACCOMPANIED THE EXPEDITION / FITTED OUT FOR THE / SAME PURPOSE BY / LADY FRANKLIN / BORN 1823 DIED 1895'
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Description: Altar-shaped memorial with a bronze relief showing a ship beset in the ice and crew members hauling a sledge. Type: Memorial Materials: Sandstone, bronze
People
Goodsir, Robert Anstruther Age: Date of Death: 1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Arctic explorer; surgeon Organisation:
Memorial in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff commemorating John Webb RM d. 1896
Location
Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales
Transcript
'In loving memory of / John Webb / who sailed in the first expedition / in search of the late Sir John Franklin / and received the Arctic medal 1818-1855 / Who died May 12th 1896 / Aged 78 years / We have to mourn the loss of one / we did our best to save / Beloved on earth, regretted, gone / Remembered in the grave.'
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Description: Headstone. Type: Gravestone
People
Webb, John Age: 78 Date of Death: 12/5/1896 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private Organisation: Royal Marines
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Notes: Medal group sold 22 June 1999 Dix Noonan Webb Recorder: David J. Wickham
Statue at Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN d. 1912
Location
Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'CAPTAIN ROBERT FALCON SCOTT. RN. CVO / BORN 6 JUNE 1868 DIED ABOUT 29 MARCH 1912 / DURING HIS RETURN FROM THE SOUTH POLE / IN HIS JOURNAL FOUND 8 MONTHS LATER HE WROTE / THE GALE IS HOWLING ABOUT US WE ARE WEAK / WRITING IS DIFFICULT BUT FOR MY OWN SAKE / I DO NOT REGRET THIS JOURNEY WHICH HAS SHOWN / THAT ENGLISHMAN CAN ENDURE HARDSHIP / HELP ONE ANOTHER AND MEET DEATH WITH / AS GREAT A FORTITUDE AS EVER IN THE PAST / WE TOOK RISKS WE KNEW WE TOOK THEM / THINGS HAVE COME OUT AGAINST US AND / THEREFORE WE HAVE NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT / BUT BOW TO THE WILL OF PROVIDENCE / DETERMINED TO DO OUR BEST TO THE END'
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Description: Full-length figure in uniform overcoat and boots, holding his cap, a dog at his feet. Type: Statue Materials: Bronze Artists: Kathleen Scott
People
Scott, Robert Falcon Age: 43 Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Window at St Paul’s Church, Dock Street, London dedicated to the memory of Sir John Franklin d. 1847
Location
St Paul's Church, Dock Street, London, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN R.N., K.C.H. / ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THIS CHURCH / WHO DIED ON BOARD H.M.S. EREBUS / IN LAT 69°. 37 42 N LONG LAT 98° 41 W / ERECTED 1872 DAN. GREATOREX VICAR'[middle] 'HE REBUKETH THE WINDS AND THE WAVES SAYING' [south] 'HE THAT HATH EARS LET HIM HEAR', 'FEAR NOT FROM HENCEFORTH THOU SHALL CATCH MEN'[middle], 'THOU OF LITTLE FAITH WHEREFORE DIDST THOU DOUBT' [north]
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Description: Triple lancets with sexfoil window above. Type: Window Materials: Stained glass Date Erected: 1872 Artists: Cox & Sons Vessel: HMS Erebus
People
Franklin, John Age: 61 Date of Death: 11/6/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Founded as a seamen's chapel behind their hostel in place of an episcopal floating church. Parochial church from 1864, converted to children's nursery in 2002.
Memorial at Odd Fellow Rural Cemetery, Salem, Oregon, USA commemorating Lieutenant Frederick G. Schwatka d. 1892
Location
Odd Fellow Rural Cemetery, Salem, Oregon, USA, Rest of the World
Transcript
'LIEUT. / F.G. SCHWATKA / 3RD U.S. CAV. / DIED / NOV 2 1892 / EXPLORER'
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Type: headstone Materials: Stone
People
Schwatka, Frederick Gustavus Age: Date of Death: 2/11/1892 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant US Army Organisation: United States Army
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Notes: Commander of a Franklin Search Expedition. Bibliography: Ronald Savitt 'F.G. Schwatka's headstone', 'Polar Record' vol 43, no. 226, 2007
Wall tablet St Mary’s Church, Gestingthorpe, Essex, dedicated to Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates d. 1912
Location
St Mary's Church, Gestingthorpe, Essex, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / A VERY GALLANT GENTLEMAN / LAWRENCE EDWARD GRACE OATES, / CAPTAIN IN THE INNISKILLING DRAGOONS. / BORN MARCH 17 1880. DIED MARCH 17 1912, / ON THE RETURN JOURNEY FROM THE SOUTH / POLE OF THE SCOTT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION / - WHEN ALL WERE BESET BY HARDSHIP, HE BEING GRAVELY INJURED WENT OUT INTO / THE BLIZZARD TO DIE IN THE HOPE THAT BY SO / DOING HE MIGHT ENABLE HIS COMRADES TO / REACH SAFETY - THIS TABLET IS PLACED / HERE IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE BY / HIS BROTHER OFFICERS, A.D. 1913'
Memorial at Lady Franklin Bay, Nunavut, Canada commemorating Charles Paul, RN, and J.J. Hand, RN, d. 1876
Location
Lady Franklin Bay, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / of / C.W. PAUL A.B. / H.M.S. DISCOVERY / who departed this life / JUNE 29th 1876 / Aged 27 years / THY WILL BE DONE', ‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / of / J.J. HAND A.B. / who departed this life / JUNE 3RD 1876 / Aged 29 years / MAY HE REST IN PEACE / THE ABOVE MEN BELONGED TO THE NORTH GREENLAND SLEDGING / PARTY AND ARE INTERRED AT HALL'S REST POLARIS BAY'
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Type: Head board Materials: Wood
People
Hand, J. J. Age: 29 Date of Death: 3/6/1876 Cause of Death: Scurvy Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Paul, Charles Age: 27 Date of Death: 29/6/1876 Cause of Death: Scurvy Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: The two men died on Nares' Arctic Expedition 1875-6 and the head board was erected by their comrades.
Bibliography: Adolphus W. Greely 'Three Years of Arctic Service' (London, 1886) vol i, p. 359.
Brass plate in Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blandford Forum, Dorset, commemorating George Vince d. 1902
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blandford Forum, Dorset, England
Transcript
'ERECTED BY HIS SHIPMATES, SCHOOLFELLOWS AND FRIENDS, / TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE VINCE, A.B., R.N., / OF THE EXPLORING SHIP, DISCOVERY / A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC REGIONS / UNDER CAPT. ROBERT F. SCOTT, R.N. / BORN AT BLANDFORD SEPT. 20, 1880. /DIED BY A FALL OVER AN ICE CLIFF INTO THE SEA / AT ROSS ISLAND MARCH 11, 1902 / THE ONLY ONE OF HIS SHIP'S COMPANY WHO LOST HIS LIFE'
Memorial plaque in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, commemorating Henry Mathias, RN, d. 1849
Location
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF HENRY MATHIAS ASSIST: SURGEON OF / H.M.S. "ENTERPRISE", WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 15TH 1849. / IN HIS 28TH YEAR, AT PORT LEOPOLD LAT 74 N. / ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION COMPOSED OF / H.M. SHIPS 'ENTERPRISE' AND 'INVESTIGATOR' AS A JUST TRIBUTE / TO HIS VARIED TALENTS AND GREAT MORAL WORTH. / 'I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord."
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Description: Above an inscription tablet on brackets, a white marble relief of two ships beset in ice with icy peaks silhouetted against a grey background behind them. A foul anchor is carved on the pediment above. Type: Wall memorial Position: Crypt Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Enterprise
People
Mathias, Henry Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/6/1849 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Surgeon Organisation: Royal Navy
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Photographer: Martin Stiles, 2011
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
