Window formerly in the Church of St Ethelburga the Virgin, Bishopsgate dedicated to Henry Hudson d. 1611
Location
Church of St Ethelburga the Virgin, Bishopsgate, London, England
Details
Description: Window depicts Hudson standing in front of his ship. Type: Window
People
Hudson, Henry Age: Date of Death: 1611 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Notes: Funded by Hudson Bay Company. Destroyed by IRA bomb on 24 April 1993. Hudson took communion at St Ethelburga's on 19 April, 1607 before embarking on his first North West Passage voyage. Bibliography: 'The Beaver' vol. 81, no. 2, p.4.
Memorial window in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldingbourne, West Sussex commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald William Skelton d. 1956
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldingbourne, West Sussex, England
Transcript
'TO THE HONOURED MEMORY / OF ENGINEER VICE ADMIRAL / SIR REGINALD WM. SKELTON K.C.B, / C.B.E., D.S.O.,WHO DIED 6TH SEPT. 1956. / The gift of his three children'
Details
Description: The window depicts an angel holding a globe showing Antarctica, a penguin and a submarine. Type: Windows Position: South aisle,chapel south wall Artists: Christopher Webb
People
Skelton, Reginald William. Age: Date of Death: 6/9/1956 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Engineer Vice-Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: DOSSIER. Engineer Vice-Admiral. Member of Scott expedition to Antarctic 1901. Submarine commander. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Cenotaph at Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada commemorating Captain Sir John Franklin, Captain Francis Crozier, Commander James Fitzjames, RN and the officers and crew of HMS ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’ who died on the Northwest Passage expedition of 1845
Location
Cenotaph, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / FRANKLIN / CROZIER, FITZJAMES / AND / ALL THEIR GALLANT BROTHER / OFFICERS AND FAITHFUL COMPANIONS / WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND PERISHED / IN THE CAUSE OF SCIENCE AND / THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / THIS TABLET / IS ERECTED NEAR THE SPOT WHERE / THEY PASSED THEIR FIRST ARCTIC / WINTER AND WHENCE THEY ISSUED FORTH TO CONQUER DIFFICULTIES OR / TO DIE / IT COMMEMORATES THE GRIEF OF THEIR / ADMIRING COUNTRYMEN AND FRIENDS, / AND THE ANGUISH, SUBDUED BY FAITH / OF HER, WHO HAS LOST IN THE HEROIC / LEADER OF THE EXPEDITION, THE MOST / DEVOTED AND AFFECTIONATE OF HUSBANDS / 'And so HE bringeth them unto the / Haven where they would be’ / 1855 / THIS STONE HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED TO / AND IS AFFIXED IN ITS PLACE BY THE / OFFICERS AND CREW; OF THE AMERICAN / EXPEDITION COMMANDED BY / LT. HARTSTENE IN SEARCH OF / DR KANE AND HIS COMPANIONS' [brass plate] 'This tablet having been left at Disco / by the American Expedition which was unable to reach Beechey Island in / 1855, was put on board Discovery / yacht FOX, and is now set up here / by Captain McClintock RN commanding / the final Expedition in search for / ascertaining the fate of Sir John / Franklin and his companions 1858'
Details
Description: Plain white marble slab with ogee edging. Type: Plaque Materials: Marble Date Erected: 1858 Vessel: HMS Erebus, HMS Terror, SY Fox
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Bibliography: McClintock's journal MCL/18 15 August 1858
Memorial in Old Mortlake Cemetery, London commemorating Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney d. 1904
Location
Old Mortlake Cemetery, London, England
Transcript
'IN / MEMORY / OF / ADMIRAL SIR ERASMUS OMMANNEY / K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. / R.N. 22 MAY 1814-21 DEC 1904 / SO HE BRINGETH THEM TO THE HAVEN WHERE THEY WOULD BE’
Details
Type: Cross
People
Ommanney, Erasmus Age: 90 Date of Death: 21/12/1904 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Served on the Arctic expedition of 1838 and in 1850 the search expedition which discovered the first winter quarters of Franklin's missing ships. Memorial also commemorates Mary his widow, who died 1 Sept 1906 aged 91.' Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 229.
Memorial at Cardiff Bay commemorating Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions d. 1912
Location
Harbour Drive, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales
Transcript
'THE "ANTARCTIC 100" MEMORIAL / Unveiled on 6th June 2003 / By Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal / On the 15th June 1910, the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO RN made its Final departure from United / Kingdom Shores. This memorial overlooks the old outer lock gates / at Roath Basin, the point from which Scott's expedition ship the "Terra / Nova" sailed from Cardiff to the cheers of vast crowds of well wishers. / Prior to the departure, Scott had launched a national appeal for funds / and the money donated by the City of Cardiff and South Wales / exceeded that contributed by any other city in the UK. It was in / recognition of this generosity that Scott designated the city as the / home port of the "Terra Nova". She was to return to Cardiff three / years later to a nation in mourning for one of its heroes. / The expedition ended tragically and created one of the great legends / of the twentieth century. Scott's supreme achievement was that he / touched the imagination of his country as no other man had done / and possibly has done since. With his dying message, eloquently / told in his diaries and hand written in desperate circumstances he / challenged whatever was finest in the British temperament. / "the causes of this disaster ware not due to faulty organisation but to / misfortune in all risks that had to be undertaken... / Had we lived, I should have a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance / and courage of my compatriots which would have stirred the heart / of every Englishman. / These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."
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Description: Iceberg-shaped, incorporating the bows of the 'Terra Nova' with the striving faces of the five members of Scott's 1910 expedition who died on the return journey from the South Pole. Type: Memorial Materials: Resin, Mosaic Date Erected: 2003 Artists: Jonathan Williams
People
Bowers, Henry Robertson Age: Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RIM Organisation: Royal Indian Marine Evans, Edward Age: Date of Death: 17/2/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer RN Organisation: Royal Navy Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace Age: Date of Death: 17/3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: British Army Scott, Robert Falcon Age: Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Wilson, Edward Adrian Age: Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Notes: Two bronze plates on the base. The first inscribed as above. The second lists all the members of the expedition. Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at Roath Park Lake, Cardiff commemorating Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN and his companions d. 1912
Location
Roath Park Lake, Cardiff, Wales
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN R.F. SCOTT C.V.O., D.S.O., R.N. / AND HIS FAITHFUL COMPANIONS / CAPTAIN L.E.G. OATES. LIEUT. H.R. BOWERS R.I.M. / WHO SAILED IN THE S.S. TERRA NOVA FROM THE PORT OF CARDIFF / JUNE 15TH 1910, TO LOCATE THE SOUTH POLE; AND IN PURSUIT OF / THAT GREAT AND SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIFIC TASK, LAID DOWN THEIR / LIVES IN THE ANTARCTIC REGIONS, MARCH 1912 / BRITONS ALL, AND VERY GALLANT GENTLEMEN / ERECTED AND PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF CARDIFF BY / F.C. BOWRING ESQ., J.P. / 1915"
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Description: Tower in the shape of a lighthouse. Type: Clock tower Date Erected: 1915 Vessel: SS Terra Nova
People
Bowers, Henry Robertson Age: Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RIM Organisation: Royal Indian Marine Evans, Edward Age: Date of Death: 17/2/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Petty Officer RN Organisation: Royal Navy Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace Age: Date of Death: 17/3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain, British Army Organisation: British Army Scott, Robert Falcon Age: 43 Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Wilson, Edward Adrian Age: Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
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Bibliography: Anthony M. Johnson 'Scott of the Antarctic and Cardiff' (Cardiff, 1984) pp. 54-5.
Statue in Henry Hudson Park, Bronx, New York, USA depicting Henry Hudson d. 1611
Location
Henry Hudson Park, Bronx, New York, USA, Rest of the World
Details
Description: Bronze statue of Hudson on top of Doric column. Date Erected: 1938 Artists: Karl Bitter, Karl Heinrich Gruppe
People
Hudson, Henry Age: Date of Death: circa 1611 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Explorer Organisation:
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Notes: Funded by public subscription and begun in 1906, the 300th anniversary of Hudson's arrival in the river that bears his name. The column set up in 1912, and the statue completed when the project was revived in 1937. The monument was renovated in 1989.
Memorial at St Bartholomew’s Church, Orford, Suffolk commemorating John Green, d. 1892
Location
St Bartholomew's Church, Orford, Suffolk, England
Transcript
‘IN / MEMORY OF / JOHN GREEN / (OF THIS TOWN) / BORN MARCH 21, 1797 / DIED FEBRUARY 12, 1892 / ONE OF THE CREW OF THE HECLA / UNDER CAPTAIN PARRY IN 1820 / THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THIS / ARCTIC EXPEDITION'
Details
Description: Carved with rocks and a ship in full sail Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Stone (possibly Portland stone) Vessel: Hecla
Event
Northwest Passage expedition 1819
People
Green, John Age: 95 Date of Death: 12/2/1892 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Rear Admiral Sir William Edward Parry’s quest for the Northwest Passage was one of the most successful. Recorder: Mrs L. Lanigan 1988
Cenotaph at Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada commemorating John Ames, RN, d. 1853
Location
Cenotaph, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘Sacred / TO THE MEMORY OF / JOHN AMES, A.B., / WHO DIED ON BOARD / H.M.S. INVESTIGATOR, AT BARING ISLAND, / APRIL 11TH, 1853, /
AGED 29 YEARS'
Details
Description: Lead plate fixed to an octagonal wooden memorial surmounted by a ball Vessel: HMS Investigator
People
Ames, John Age: c. 33 Date of Death: 9/4/1853 Cause of Death: Scurvy Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman & Sick Bay Attendant Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Died 9 April 1853, Mercy Bay, Banks Island. Transcript in account of Belcher expedition 1852-4. 'Inscriptions on the cenotaph in Beechey Island’.
Bibliography: Sir Edward Belcher 'The Last of the Arctic Voyages: being an narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance under the command of Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54' (London, 1855). 'Further papers relative to the recent Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and the crews of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror' (HMSO, 1855) p. 63.
Glenn M Stein 'Discovery of the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of HMS Investigator and the McClure Expedition (Jefferson 2015).
Monument with effigy in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney commemorating Arctic Explorer, Dr John Rae d. 1893
Location
St Magnus's Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
Transcript
'JOHN RAE, M.D., L.L.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. / ARCTIC EXPLORER / INTREPID DISCOVERER OF THE FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S LAST EXPEDITION / BORN 1813-DIED 1893 / EXPEDITIONS:- 1846-7, 1848-9, 1851-2, 1853-4'
Details
Description: Full-length recumbent figure of Rae in Arctic clothing and wrapped in a mantle of deerskin, with a gun beside him. Type: Effigy Materials: Marble on granite plinth Date Erected: 1895 Artists: Joseph Whitehead
People
Rae, John Age: 79 Date of Death: 22/7/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Explorer Organisation: Hudson Bay Company
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Bibliography: R.L. Richards 'Dr John Rae' (Whitby, 1985) (photograph facing page 165); Ian Bunyan, Jenni Calder, Dale Idiens, B Wilson 'No ordinary journey: John Rae, Arctic explorer' (Edinburgh, 1993) p. 4 (gives dates of 3rd journey as 1850-51). 'The Builder' 4 Jan. 1896, p.21. 'The design and execution of the memorial was by Mr Joseph Whitehead of London. The base is of Aberdeen granite, the pedestal of Peterhead granite, and the figure of Portland stone.' Photographer: Jeremy Michell
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