Category Archives: Polar Exploration

Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent, England

Memorial in Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent commemorating Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio Austin RN d. 1865

Location

Church of St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / A ZEALOUS EXCELLENT OFFICE / A TRUE AND KIND HEARTED MAN / WHO RAISED HIMSELF TO A HIGH POSITION IN THE NAVY / BY MERITORIOUS CONDUCT AND ENTIRE DEVOTION TO DUTY / VICE ADMIRAL / SIR HORATIO AUSTIN / K.C.B. / BORN 10TH MARCH A.D.1800 DIED 16TH NOVR 1865 / HIS BODY WAS INTERRED IN KENSEL GREEN CEMETERY / ERECTED IN TESTIMONY / OF HIS HONOURABLE CHARACTER AND PUBLIC SERVICES / BY HIS NAVAL FRIENDS AND BROTHER OFFICERS'

Details

Description: Carved with lamb and flag above
Type: Wall tablet
Position: North nave
Materials: Marble

People

Austin, Horatio Thomas
Age: 65
Date of Death: 16/11/1865
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Vice-Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Buried in Kensel Green Cemetery.
Bibliography: Rear Admiral J.A.L. Myers 'The rating's son who became an admiral', 'The Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society' vol. 39, pp. 268-9.

JSON

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Polar Exploration

St Mary's Church, Perivale, London, England

Monument at St Mary’s Church, Perivale, London commemorating Admiral Sir Richard Collinson d. 1883

Location

St Mary's Church, Perivale, London, England

Details

Description: Cross on a rock with an anchor and chain on the base.
Type: Monument
Position: Churchyard

People

Collinson, Richard
Age:
Date of Death: 13/9/1883
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Lead a Franklin search expedition.
Bibliography: 'Dictionary of National Biography'.
Recorder: Mrs Eve Farley 1985

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    "recorder": "Mrs Eve Farley 1985",
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Polar Exploration

Beechey Island, Qikiqtaaluck Region, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World

Memorial at Beechey Island, Qikiqtaaluck Region, Nunavut, Canada commemorating John Torrington, RN, d. 1846

Location

Beechey Island, Qikiqtaaluck Region, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World

Transcript

'SACRED TO / THE MEMORY OF / JOHN TORRINGTON / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / JANUARY 1ST, AD 1846 / ON BOARD OF / H.M. SHIP TERROR / AGED 20 YEARS’

‘This marker is a replica / the original is housed at the / Prince of Wales / Northern Heritage Centre / Yellowknife, N.W.T. / 1997'

Details

Type: Headboard (replica)
Materials: Wood and brass
Vessel: HMS Terror

People

Torrington, John
Age: 20
Date of Death: 1/1/1846
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Stoker
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: See W Braine, d. 1846. Torrington’s grave is alongside Thomas Morgan, John Hartnell and William Braine. Anthropologist, Owen Beattie lead a team to exhumed the bodies in 1984 and they determined the deceased had signs of lead poisoning and TB. He probably died of pneumonia.

Bibliography: Peter C. Sutherland 'Journal of a voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the years 1850-1851...' (London, 1852) p. 305.

JSON

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Polar Exploration

Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London, England

Box interred in the vestibule of Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich containing the skeleton of one of Franklin’s officers possibly Harry Goodsir or Henry Le Vesconte

Location

Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

[Lid of box] 'THIS BOX CONTAINS HUMAN BONES, CONJUNCTURED TO HAVE / BEEN THE SKELETON OF THE BODY OF LIEUT. HENRY TD LE VESCONTE / OF H M SHIP EREBUS, WHO PERISHED WITH MANY OTHERS, ABOUT THE / YEAR 1848. IN THE EXPEDITION TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS COMMANDED / BY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. THE BONES WERE FOUND BY CAPT HALL, THE / AMERICAN EXPLORER, IN KING WILLIAM LAND; AND TAKEN BY / HIM TO NEW YORK IN 1869, WHENCE THEY WERE BROUGHT TO / ENGLAND BY ADMIRAL INGLEFIELD. THEY WERE DEPOSITED HERE / BY ORDER OF THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY IN 1873.'

Details

Type: Ossuary
Position: Chapel vestibule

People

Goodsir, Harry
Age:
Date of Death: circa 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Assistant Surgeon
Organisation: Royal Navy
Le Vesconte, Henry
Age:
Date of Death: circa 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Body recovered from King William Island. Moved from under stair leading to painted hall when this converted to college mess. See NMM1149/2/39. Place of burial 1939-2009 behind the altar of the College Chapel, at foot of monument to 1845 Franklin expedition members. The remains and the monument were moved to the vestibule of the Naval College Chapel in 2009 and the bones are now thought more likely to be those of Harry Goodsir.
Bibliography: S. Mays, A. Ogden, J. Montgomery, S. Vincent, W. Battersby, G.M. Taylor 'New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845', 'Journal of Archaeological Science' XXX (2011) 1-12.

JSON

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Exploration, Polar Exploration

St Mary's Church, Bury, Lancashire, England

Wall monument in St Mary’s Church, Bury, Lancashire commemorating Lieutenants RN Robert Hood d. 1821 and George Hood d. 1823.

Location

St Mary's Church, Bury, Lancashire, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory of / LIEUTENANTS ROBERT and GEORGE HOOD, R.N. / SONS of the REVD RICHARD HOOD, L.L.D. of this Town / The former of whom, while engaged in the overland Arctic Expedition, / Under the command of CAPTAIN FRANKLIN, R.N. / After having with unshaken fortitude, endured / unparalleled dangers and privations, / AND BY HIS SKILL IN SCIENCE, / Essentially contributed to the utility of the enterprise, / WAS ASSASSINATED by an IROQUOIS, October 20 1821 / Thus terminating At the early age of four and twenty, / A short but brilliant career , /Distinguished by varied talent and steady determination / Which were rapidly opening a path to the highest honours of his profession / THE LATTER, UNDER CAPTAIN OWEN, R.N. / Employed also in the cause of science, on the Eastern Coast of Africa / perished by a Fever, February. 6th.1823, Being also 24 Years of age, / If his services were less distinguished, / or his fate attracted less of public sympathy, / Than that of his lamented brother, / He required only a more prominent situation / For the display of his uncommon talents and acquirements.' [Base] 'As a tribute of sincere respect / For / the merit of their Fellow Towns men/This Monument was erected / By / some of the Inhabitants of Bury'

Details

Description: Below inscription tablet, a relief of a mourning female with an urn flanked by an elephant and a walrus.

Type: Wall monument
Date Erected: 1824
Artists: Thomas Kirk

People

Hood, Robert
Age: 24
Date of Death: 20/10/1821
Cause of Death: Murdered
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hood, George
Age: 24
Date of Death: 6/2/1823
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Hilary P. Mead 'Lieutenant Robert Hood', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 42, p.78, (Cambridge, 1956); C Stuart Houston (editor) 'To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1822: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood Midshipman with Franklin' (Montreal, 1974).
Photographer: Lucy Bunhill 2007

JSON

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Polar Exploration

Cenotaph, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World

Cenotaph at Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada commemorating John Kerr, RN d. 1853

Location

Cenotaph, Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada, Rest of the World

Transcript

‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / JOHN KERR / GUNNER'S MATE / WHO DIED ON BOARD / H.M. SHIP INVESTIGATOR / AT BARING ISLAND / APRIL 13th 1853 / AGED 34 YEARS'

Details

Description: Lead plate fastened to an octagonal wooden memorial surmouted by a ball.
Type: Memorial
Materials: Wood, lead
Date Erected: 1854
Vessel: HMS Investigator

People

Kerr, John
Age: 34
Date of Death: 13/4/1853
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Gunner’s Mate
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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.

JSON

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Polar Exploration

Seapatrick Church, Seapatrick, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

Memorial at Seapatrick Church, Seapatrick, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating Captain Francis Crozier RN, d. c. 1848 on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage.

Location

Seapatrick Church, Seapatrick, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

Transcript

'FAR FROM THIS SPOT / IN SOME UNKNOWN BUT NOT UNHONORED RESTING PLACE LIE ALL THAT WAS MORTAL OF / FRANCIS RAWDON MOIRA CROZIER CAPTN R.N. / 5TH SON OF THE LATE GEORGE CROZIER ESQR / HE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 1796 ENTERED THE ROYAL NAVY JUNE 1810 AND SERVED WITH HIGH DISTINCTION / IN SEVERAL EXPLORING VOYAGES UNDER SIR E. PARRY AND WITH SIR J.C. ROSS IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS / HE LEFT ENGLAND MAY 1845 IN COMMAND OF H.M.S. TERROR WITH SIR J. FRANKLIN OF H.M.S. EREBUS / IN THE EXPEDITION FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE N. WEST PASSAGE / FROM THIS HEROIC SERVICE NEITHER HE NOR ANY OF HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS EVER RETURNED / HIS UNBENDING INTEGRITY AND TRUTHFULNESS COMBINED WITH EXTREME AMIABILITY WON THE ESTEEM / AND LOVE OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM, THE FAITH THAT INFLUENCED HIS LIFE IS NOW A SOURCE OF / TRUEST CONSOLATION TO HIS SORROWING FRIENDS. / This tablet has been erected / in his native place by his / surviving brothers and sisters / in heartfelt and affectionate / testimony to his fraternal love and christian character. / "If I take the wings of the / morning and dwell in / the uttermost part of the / Sea even there shall / thy hand lead me”. Ps 139.9 / "Them also which sleep / in Jesus will God bring / with him.” 1 Thess.4.

Details

Description: In relief, a ship beset amid ice, the inscription in recesses. A profile portrait of Crozier (left) below.
Type: Plaque
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1856
Artists: J. R. Kirk RHA
Vessel: HMS Terror

People

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira
Age: c. 51-52
Date of Death: 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: M1229 is a memorial plaque to Captain Crozier by his birthplace Avonmore House, Church Square, Bainbridge.

Bibliography: Mary Fluhmann 'Second in Command' (Government of the NW Territories, 1976).

JSON

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Polar Exploration

Church Square, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

Monument in Church Square, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating Captain Francis Crozier, RN who died in 1848 on expedition to discover the North West Passage.

Location

Church Square, Banbridge, County Down, Northern Ireland

Transcript

'To perpetuate the remembrance of talent, enterprise and worth as combined in the character and evinced by the life of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier R.N., F.R.S this monument has been erected by friends who, as they valued him in life, regret him in death,. He was second in command with Captain Sir John Franklin R.N., F.R.S. and Captain of H.M.Ship Terror in the polar expedition which left England on 22 May 1845', 'Altho' there remained no survivors of the expedition, enough had been ascertained to shew that to it is justly due the honor of the discovery of the long sought North West Passage, and that Captain Crozier, having survived his chief, perished with the remainder of the party after he had bravely led them to the coast of America: he was born at Banbridge the 17th September 1796, but the place or time of his death no man knoweth to this day'

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Description: 7ft statue of Crozier in naval uniform and cloak. Gothic plinth supported on red and blue granite pillars surrounded by four polar bears on flying buttresses. Between the bears on the central column, two reliefs of ships beset in the ice and two inscription panels. More reliefs were planned but not sufficient funds were raised to complete them.
Type: Memorial
Date Erected: 1862
Artists: Joseph Kirk, W. J. Barre

People

Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira
Age: c. 51-52
Date of Death: 1848
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Notes: DOSSIER. Statue by Joseph Kirk, plinth by W.J. Barre.
Also M1228, Memorial in Seapatrick Church.

Bibliography: Cyril Barrett 'The Crozier Memorial' 'Gatherum' vol. 5.
Recorder: Banbridge Heritage Development Ltd

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Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France, Rest of the World

Memorial at Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris commemorating Admiral J.S.C. Dumont d’Urville d. 1842

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Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France, Rest of the World

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[On pillar] ‘A . LA . MEMOIRE . DU . CONTRE . ADMIRAL / DUMONT . D’URVILLE / NE . LE . XXIII . MAI . MDCCXC . / A CONDE . SUR . NOIREAU . CALVADOS / MORT . LE . VIII . MAI . MDCCCXLII / … CHEMIN . DE . FER . DE . PARIS . A . VERSAILLES’ [Base] ‘NAVIGATION GEOGRAPHIE . HISTOIRE-NATURELLE . PHILOLIGIE / VOYAGE DE LES MERS DU LEVANT / I VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE / II VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE / III VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE POLE SUD / VENUS DE MILO SIGNALEE / GEOGRAPHIE BOTANIQUE DEBRIS DE NAUFR. DE LAPEROUSE REPORTES / TERRE LOUIS PHILIPPE TERRE ADELIE / MONUMENT ELEVE PAR LES SOINS DE LA SOCIETE DE GEOGRAPHIE’

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Description: A column, on the base, profiles of the ships of Dumont D'Urville's voyages of exploration, and the Venus de Milo brought back by him to France. The sequence ends with the Admiral, his wife and son shown being carried up to heaven above a train in flames (he was killed in a railway accident in 1842). The monument also incorporates a portrait bust.
Type: Monument
Materials: Stone
Artists: Antoine Laurant Danton; Simon Claude Constant Dufeux

People

Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville,
Age: 51
Date of Death: 8/5/1842
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: French Navy

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Notes: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain 'Sculpture From Antiquity to the Present Day'

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Polar Exploration

Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Wall tablet in St Luke’s Church, Haslar Hospital commemorating Lieutenant William Hooper RN d. 1854

Location

Haslar Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Transcript

'Sacred To The Memory Of Lieut W Hulme Hooper RN / Who Devoted Four Years Of A Short But Exemplary Life / Whilst Serving In HMS Plover To The Search For Sir John / Franklin And His Comrades Performing During This Period / A Perilous Boat Voyage In The Arctic Ocean And Enduring / Great Subsequent Hardships He Returned Home in / Impaired Health But With Undiminished Zeal in / The Cause In 1851 And Died in His 28th Year On The / 19th May 1854 / To Record These Proofs Of His Zeal And Humanity This / Tablet Has Been Erected By Lady Franklin As A Tribute / Of Heartfelt Gratitude.'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: St Luke's Church
Vessel: HMS Plover

People

Hooper, William Hulme
Age: 28
Date of Death: 9/5/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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