Memorial at Le Cimetière de Rochefort, Rochefort commemorating Lieutenant Joseph Bellot d. 1853
Location
Le Cimetière de Rochefort, Rochefort, France, Rest of the World
Details
Description: The recumbent effigy of Bellot dressed in polar clothing lies on an ice floe under a canopy supported by four polar bears. On top of the canopy is a draped sledge. Type: Cenotaph Materials: Stone
People
Bellot, Joseph Rene Age: 27 Date of Death: 18/8/1853 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Organisation: French Navy
Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Lieutenant Reginald Baldwin Fulford RN d. 1886
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘LIEUTENANT REGINALD / BALDWIN FULFORD R.N. / OF HMS LEANDER / SECOND SON OF / ADMIRAL JOHN FULFORD R.N. / BORN 16TH FEBRUARY 1851 / DIED 19TH DECEMBER 1886’
Details
Description: Cross on plinth. Type: Cross Vessel: HMS Leander
People
Fulford, Reginald Baldwin Age: Date of Death: 19/12/1886 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: In HMS 'Discovery' Fulford took part in the British Arctic Expedition 1865-6, leader George Nares. Recorder: Christine Thomas; Patricia Lim, Gwulo.com
Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, commemorating Admiral Sir John Ross d. 1856.
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the Memory of / ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS KCB / THE ARCTIC NAVIGATOR / DIED 30TH AUGUST 1856 AGED 80 YEARS / PHILIP HEYLAND ROSS / DIED 24TH JUNE 1864 AGED 13 YEARS / MARY CAROLINE ROSS DIED 13TH AUGUST 1865 AGED 16 YEARS / ALICE JANE ROSS / DIED 28th NOVEMBER 1870 AGED 11 YEARS / EDITH GEORGIANA ROSS / DIED 6TH DECEMBER 1873 AGED 15 YEARS / ADA CATHERINE ROSS DIED 19TH JULY 1882 AGED 21 YEARS / GEORGIANA ELIZABETH ROSS / WIFE OF ANDREW ROSS B.C.S. / DIED AT BRIGHTON 24TH JANUARY 1890 / AGED 55 YEARS / ANDREW ROSS B.C.S. /DIED 1ST MARCH 1894 AGED 75 YEARS / CECIL CHARLES ROSS / DIED 4TH MAY 1913 AGED 42 YEARS'
Details
Description: Cross on a rock, with a anchor below. Type: Memorial Position: 13388/112/4 Materials: Carrara marble
People
Ross, John Age: 80 Date of Death: 30/8/1856 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: BCS Bengal Civil Service DOSSIER. Grade II listed.
Commemorative window at Stockport Town Hall dedicated to Admiral Sir George Back, RN d. 1878
Location
Town Hall, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Transcript
‘H.M.S. Terror / Beset in Fox's / Channel. A.D. 1857’.
'Sir George Back, Admiral and / Arctic navigator, was born at / Stockport. A.D. 1796. At the age / of 13 he was taken prisoner / by the French at Deba, and / carried across the Alps on / a donkey, being too young to / march with the other prisoners. / He made two Arctic voyages / under Franklin in 1819 & 1824 / and was in command of two / himself in which few sailors / ever survived more terrible / perils and hardships. In / bravery, intelligence & love / of adventure, he was the / very model of an English Sailor.'
Details
Description: Left hand panel shows HMS 'Terror' beset in the ice in Fox’s Channel. Central panel depicts St George wearing a helmet and carrying a banner inscribed 'FORTITVDO’ in his right hand. His left hand leans on a portrait of Sir George Back. Biographical text on right panel. Type: Window Position: Ante room Materials: Glass Vessel: HMS ‘Terror'
People
Back, George Age: 81 Date of Death: 23/6/1878 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Admiral; Arctic explorer Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Ann Pares 'The Man who ate his trousers: a narrative of the life of Sir George Back RN 1796-1878’ (opposite p. 204) Photographer: Pippa Lacey, 2018
Window in Banbury, Oxfordshire dedicated to Admiral Sir George Back d. 1878
Location
St Mary's Church, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Transcript
[Brass plaque below window] 'TO . THE . GLORY . OF . GOD . AND . IN . MEMORY . OF . ADMIRAL . SIR . GEORGE . BACK . D.C.L.F.R.S. WHO . DIED . 23RD . JUNE . 1878 . AGED . 81 . YEARS' [Around flight into Egypt] ' HE . TOOK . THE . YOUNG . CHILD . & . HIS . MOTHER . BY . NIGHT . AND . DEPARTED . INTO . EGYPT' [Around Jesus in the temple] 'ALL . THAT . HEARD . HIM . WERE . ASTONISHED . BY . HIS . UNDERSTANDING' [Around Jesus in the carpenter's shop] 'AND . CAME . TO . NAZARETH . AND . WAS . SUBJECT . UNTO . THEM'
Details
Description: Window showing the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, Christ in the temple and the flight into Egypt in roundels in the centre. Below and at the edges, Arctic fauna - wolf, fox, polar bears, caribou, walrus and seals. Two small roundels are based on sketches of HMS 'Terror' in the ice. An Inuit dog sled occupies the space at the bottom. The window has a border of snow flakes.
Type: Window Materials: Stained glass Date Erected: 1878-1881 Artists: Heaton, Butler & Bayne Vessel: HMS Terror
People
Back, George Age: 81 Date of Death: 23/6/1878 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Window given by Rev. H. Back and the Rev. John Back in memory of their uncle. It was designed and made by Heaton, Butler & Bayne. Acknowledgments to St Mary's Church Banbury for permitting access. Bibliography: Eleanor Draper and William Potts 'The Parish Church St Mary's Banbury' 1907. Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial in Mount Wise, Devonport, Plymouth, England commemorating Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN d. 1912
Location
Mount Wise, Devonport, Plymouth, England
Transcript
[Front panel] 'IN MEMORY OF / CAPT R F SCOTT RN / DR E A WILSON / CAPT L E G OATES INS DRGS / LT H R BOWERS RIM / PETTY OFFICER E EVANS RN / WHO DIED ON THEIR RETURN / FROM THE SOUTH POLE / MARCH 1912. [Round top] 'FOR KNOWLEDGE','FOR KING', 'FOR COUNTRY', 'FOR BROTHERLY LOVE' [Middle] ' HAD WE LIVED I SHOULD HAVE HAD A TALE', 'TO TELL OF THE HARDIHOOD ENDURANCE AND', 'COURAGE OF MY COMPANIONS WHICH WOULD', 'HAVE STIRRED THE HEARTS OF EVERY ENGLISHMAN' [Base] 'TO STRIVE', 'TO SEEK', 'TO FIND, 'AND NOT TO YIELD'
Details
Description: Figure of Scott in Polar clothing crowned by victory in bronze at the top. This stands on a large stone plinth with bronze profile portraits of the polar party - Evans and Wilson on one side, Bowers and Oates on the other. Profile of Scott within a wreath on the front. On the back are carved three skiis, a wreath placed over them. Round the base are four bronze reliefs showing scenes from the expedition - manhauling, ponies, unloading stores and the cairn built over the bodies of the polar party.
Type: Monument Materials: Bronze, portland stone Date Erected: 10/8/1925 Artists: Albert Hemstock Hodge
People
Scott, Robert Falcon Age: 43 Date of Death: 3/1912 Cause of Death: Starvation and exposure Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: PRO WORK20-121. Commissioned by the Captain Scott Memorial fund. They were not permitted to erect it at a London site as originally intended.
Statue at Spilsby, Lincolnshire commemorating Sir John Franklin d. 1847
Location
Market Place, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Transcript
'SIR JOHN FRANKLIN / DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE/BORN AT SPILSBY / APRIL 1786 / DIED IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS / JUNE 1847'
Details
Description: Full-length figure in uniform, holding a telescope in the right hand, an anchor behind. Type: Statue Materials: Bronze Artists: Charles Bacon
People
Franklin, John Age: 61 Date of Death: 11/6/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969
Memorial at Hanwell Cemetery, Kensington commemorating Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock d. 1907
Location
Hanwell cemetery, Kensington, London, England
Details
Type: Celtic cross Materials: Granite
People
McClintock, Francis Leopold Age: 88 Date of Death: 17/11/1907 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: McClintock confirmed the fate of the missing North West Passage expedition lead by Sir John Franklin. Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 200.
Memorial at Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich commemorating Sir John Franklin and the officers of ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’ who died in the Arctic 1845-1848
Location
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / REAR ADMIRAL SIR JOHN FRANKLIN KT., K.C.H. / AND OF THE UNDERMENTIONED OFFICERS / OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS / EREBUS/CAPT. JAMES FITZJAMES / COMMR. GRAHAM GORE / LIEUT. HENRY T.D. LE VESCONTE / LIEUT. JAMES WALTER FAIRHOLME. / LIEUT. ROBERT ORME SARGENT / LIEUT. CHARLES F. DES VOEUX / LIEUT. EDWARD COUCH / MR. CHARLES H. OSMER, PAYMASTER / MR. STEPHEN S. STANLEY, SURGEON / MR. HARRY D.S. GOODSIR ACTG. ASST. SURG. / MR. JAMES REID (CIVILIAN), ICE MASTER/MR. HENRY F. COLLINS, 2ND MASTER / MR. THOS. TERRY, BOATSWAIN / MR. JOHN WEEKES, CARPENTER / AND TERROR / CAPT. FRANS. RAWDEN MOIRA CROZIER / COMMR. EDWARD LITTLE / LIEUT. GEORGE HENRY HODGSON / LIEUT. JOHN IRVING / LIEUT. FREDK. JOHN HORNBY / LIEUT. ROBERT THOMAS / MR. JOHN SMART PEDDIE, SURGEON / MR. ALEXR. MCDONALD, ASSIST. SURGEON / MR.THOS. BLANKY (CIVILIAN), ICE MASTER / MR. GILLIES ALEXR. MCBEAN, 2ND MASTER / MR. EDWIN JAMES HOWARD HELPMAN / (CLERK IN CHARGE) / MR. JOHN LANE, BOATSWAIN / MR. THOS. HONEY, CARPENTER / ALSO IN MEMORY OF / THE SEVERAL SEAMAN, PETTY OFFICERS AND MARINES; / WHO SAILED FROM ENGLAND IN THE SHIPS NAMED; / AND WHO WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, / LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / WHILE EMPLOYED ON A VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC SEA, / IN SEARCH OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, A.D.1845-1854', 'BENEATH LIE THE REMAINS / OF ONE OF FRANKLIN'S COMPANIONS / WHO PERISHED IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS / 1848 / DISCOVERED AND BROUGHT AWAY FROM / KING WILLIAM'S LAND BY CAPTAIN HALL / THE UNITED STATES ARCTIC EXPLORER / 1869'
Details
Description: Inscription tablet with a pediment above, on which are carved two entwined wreaths of oak and olive. It is flanked by the figures of a naval officer studying a chart and a despondant seaman. In the background - two departing vessels, icebergs and the Pole Star. Type: Monument Position: Chapel vestibile Materials: Marble Date Erected: 1858 Artists: Richard Westmacott Vessel: HMS Erebus, HMS Terror
People
Blanky, Thomas Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Icemaster Organisation: Collins, Henry F. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: 2nd Master Organisation: Royal Navy Couch, Edward Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira Age: Date of Death: 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Des Voeux, Charles F. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Fairholme, James Walter Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Fitzjames, James Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Franklin, John Age: Date of Death: 11/6/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy Goodsir, Harry D. S. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Assistant Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy Gore, Graham Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy Helpman, Edwin James Howard Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Clerk in charge Organisation: Royal Navy Hodgson, George Henry Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Honey, Thomas Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Carpenter Organisation: Royal Navy Hornby, Frederick John Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Irving, John Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Lane, John Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy Le Vesconte, Henry T. D. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Little, Edward Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy McBean, Gillies Alexander Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: 2nd Master Organisation: Royal Navy McDonald, Alexander Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Assistant Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy Osmer, Charles H. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Paymaster Organisation: Royal Navy Peddie, John Smart Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy Reid, James Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Icemaster Organisation: Sargent, Robert Orme Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Stanley, Stephen S. Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy Terry, Thomas Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy Thomas, Robert Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Weekes, John Age: Date of Death: circa 1848 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Carpenter Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at St James’s Church, Spilsby, Lincolnshire commemorating Captain Sir John Franklin RN d. 1847
Location
St James's Church, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY / OF / CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, R.N. / K.C.H.-K.R.-D.C.L., / THE ARCTIC NAVIGATOR AND EXPLORER./BORN AT SPILSBY, APRIL 16TH 1786 / DIED IN THE ARCTIC SEAS, JUNE 11TH 1847. / WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE EXPEDITION / WHICH FIRST DISCOVERED / THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE / 'THEY FORGED THE LAST LINK WITH THEIR LIVES' / ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW'
Details
Description: A round profile portrait in relief above the inscription. Type: Wall tablet
People
Franklin, John Age: 61 Date of Death: 11/6/1847 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Statue of Franklin in the market place at Spilsby by Charles Bacon (1821-85?). Recorder: B. Tomlinson
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
