Graffito at Horta, Azores commemorating ‘Marques’ which foundered in 1984
Location
Horta, Azores, Rest of the World
Transcript
''MARQUES 1983', 'LOST AT SEA 4 JUNE 1984 "MAY SHE AND ALL WHO WENT WITH HER REST IN PEACE'
Details
Description: Graffito commemorating the visit of the ship converted into a memorial. It shows a bow view of the ship with the name and date on a ribbon below. Type: Graffito Position: Harbour wall, by the marina Materials: Paint Date Erected: 1983 Vessel: Marques
Extra
Notes: The ship foundered in a gale, during a Tall Ships Race, while between Hamilton and Halifax, Nova Scotia with the loss of 19 of a crew of 28.
Plaque in St Mary’s Chapel, Buckler’s Hard, Hampshire commemorating Sir Francis Chichester d. 1972
Location
St Mary's Chapel, Buckler's Hard, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'GIPSY MOTH / SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER KBE / NAVIGATOR OF THE SKIES & SEAS / INSPIRER OF THE HEARTS OF MEN / 1901-1972 / [Round relief of yacht] 'BUCKLER'S HARD 1952-82. HOME PORT GIPSY MOTHS II, III, IV & V' [On scroll] THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS & OCCUPY THEIR BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS / THESE MEN SEA THE WORKS OF THE LORD & HIS WONDERS IN THE DEEP'
Details
Description: A pair of dolphins carved at the top, and a relief of 'Gypsy Moth' in the centre. Type: Plaque Position: Interior Materials: Oak Vessel: Gipsy Moth
People
Chichester, Francis Age: 70 Date of Death: 26/8/1972 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Yachtsman Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Notes: Died of cancer in Plymouth. Recorder: Patricia Barber 2019 Photographer: Patricia Barber
Memorial at Sandon Church, Staffordshire to members of the Dudley Ryder family including Captain Robert Edward Dudley Ryder VC, RN d.1986 and Major Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder d. 1942
Location
All Saints Church, Sandon, Staffordshire, England
Transcript
'IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF / COLONEL CHARLES HENRY DUDLEY RYDER / C.B., C.I.E., D.S.O. LATE ROYAL ENGINEERS / EXPLORER & SURVEYOR GENERAL OF INDIA / BORN 28 JUNE 1868 - DIED 13 JULY 1945. / ALSO OF HIS SONS / MAJOR LISLE CHARLES DUDLEY RYDER / THE ROYAL NORFOLK REGIMENT. / BORN 31 AUGUST 1902 / KILLED IN ACTION AT LE PARADIS, FRANCE 27 MAY 1940 / BURIED AT LESTREM CEMETERY NEAR BETHUNE. / MAJOR ERNLE TERRICK DUDLEY RYDER / 2ND BATT: 1ST KING GEORGE'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES / BORN 18 APRIL 1906. LOST AT SEA BY ENEMY ACTION / OFF THE COAST OF JAVA IN FEBRUARY 1942. / CAPTAIN ROBERT EDWARD DUDLEY RYDER / V.C., ROYAL NAVY, POLAR MEDAL 1939, M.P. 1950-1955 / BORN 16 FEBRUARY 1908- DIED AT SEA 29 JUNE 1986'
Details
Description: Plain wall tablet with family crest top left and motto 'SERVATA FIDES CINERI' (Faith kept with my ancestor). Type: Wall tablet Position: North side of choir Materials: Stone Vessel: SS Ban Ho Guan, Watchdog
Event
St Nazaire Raid
Event Date
1942
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Ryder, Erle Terrick Dudley Age: 36 Date of Death: 28/2/1942 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Major Organisation: King George's Own Gurkha Rifles Ryder, Robert Edward Dudley Age: 78 Date of Death: 29/6/1986 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Major Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder boarded SS 'Ban Ho Guan' following the fall of Singapore. The vessel foundered en route to Australia in February 1942, presumed sunk by Japanese submarine. Robert Edward Dudley Ryder was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the St Nazaire Raid and died on a sailing holiday on the yacht 'Watchdog'. His ashes are buried in Oxford. Recorder: B. Tomlinson 2018
Memorial at Rotherhithe to Thomas Smith d. 1848, founder member Royal Thames Yacht Club
Location
St Mary, Rotherhithe, London, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE / MR. THOMAS SMITH, / BORN IN THIS PARISH ON THE 7TH JUNE 1790, / AND DIED / AT HIS RESIDENCE IN PRINCES STREET, / ON THE 25TH MAY 1848, / LEAVING A WIDOW AND FAMILY / TO DEPLORE HIS LOSS. / THIS TABLET TO HOLD IN MEMORY, / THE GOOD QUALITIES AND INTEGRITY / BY WHICH HE ENDEARED HIMSELF / TO THOSE WHO KNEW HIM, / HAS BEEN ERECTED / BY A SUBSCRIPTION OF MEMBERS OF / THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB, / OF WHICH SOCIETY / HE WAS FROM ITS FORMATION / A STRENUOUS SUPPORTER.'
Details
Description: Neoclassical wall tablet, with an egg and dart frieze at the top. Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Materials: Marble
People
Smith, Thomas Age: unknown Date of Death: 25/5/1848 Cause of Death: unknown Rank / Occupation: yachtsman Organisation: Royal Thames Yacht Club
Extra
Notes: Smith owned two yachts, 'Queen Victoria' and 'Lady Louisa'. Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Whickham commemorating Harry Clasper d. 1870, oarsman
Location
St Mary's church, Whickham, Tyne and Weir, England
Transcript
'BENEATH THIS MONUMENT REARED TO HIS MEMORY / BY THE ARDENT AFFECTION OF FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS / FROM EVERY CLASS AND FROM ALL PARTS OF THE / KINGDOM, AND IN THE SACRED SPOT COMMANDING /A FULL VIEW OF THAT NOBLE RIVER. THE WELL LOVED / SCENE OF FORMER TRIUMPHS, REST THE MORTAL / REMAINS OF / HENRY (HARRY) CLASPER / THE ACCOMPLISHED OARSMAN AND BOATBUILDER / OF DERWENTHAUGH / WHO DIED JULY 12TH 1870, AGED 58 YEARS. / KNOW YE NOT THAT THEY WILL RUN IN A / RACE RUN ALL. BUT ONE RECEIVETH THE PRIZE SO / RUN THAT YE MAY OBTAIN. 1 COR. IX, 24.'
Details
Description: Standing figure of Clasper dressed in everyday clothes, under a gothic canopy. His right hand rests on a bollard carved with bull rushes. Type: Monument Position: Churchyard Materials: Sandstone Date Erected: 1871 Artists: George Burn
People
Clasper, Henry Age: 58 Date of Death: 12/7/1870 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Oarsman Organisation:
Extra
Bibliography: Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach, Catherine Morriss 'Public Sculpture in North-East England' (Liverpool UP, 2000) p.215.
Recorder: Barbara Tomlinson 2013 Photographer: Barbara Tomlinson 2013
Memorial at Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead commemorating professional oarsman, James Renforth d. 1871
Location
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
Transcript
'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH', 'ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/TO THE MEMORY OF / JAMES RENFORTH, OF GATESHEAD; CHAMPION SCULLER OF THE WORLD / WHO DIED AUGUST 23RD 1871, AGED 29 YEARS / WHILE ROWING AN INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE / BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CREWS / ON THE KENNEBECASSIS RIVER NEAR ST JOHNS NB'.
Details
Description: Two seated rowers in a boat. Renforth (who died of a heart attack), supported by a bearded Harry Kelly. The boat sits on a sarcophagus, decorated with relief stars and rampant lions. Type: Monument Position: Outside Materials: Sandstone Date Erected: 1871 Artists: George Burns
People
renforth, James Age: 29 Date of Death: 23/8/1871 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Oarsman Organisation:
Extra
Notes: The memorial was moved from Gateshead East Cemetery where Renforth was buried and re-erected in a safer location in 1992. Bibliography: Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach, Catherine Morriss 'Public Sculpture in North-East England' (Liverpool UP, 2000).
Statue at Compass Gardens, Skegness representing the town’s ‘Jolly Fisherman’ mascot
Location
Compass Gardens, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England
Details
Description: Bronze statue of a dancing fisherman Type: Statue Materials: Bronze
Extra
Notes: Based on John Hassell's 'Jolly Fisherman' 1908 railway poster with its caption 'Skegness is so bracing.' There is another version at Skegness railway station by Sioban Coppinger.
Gravestone at St Mary’s Church, Wivenhoe, Essex, commemorating Philip Sainty d. 1844
Location
St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe, Essex, England
Transcript
'In Loving Memory / Of / PHILIP SAINTY / THE BUILDER OF THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY'S / YACHT PEARL / WHO DIED AGED 90 YEARS / AND WHO WAS BURIED IN THIS CHURCHYARD / ON JANUARY 21ST 1844 / 'THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS / THAT DO BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS; THSES / SEE THE WORKS OF THE LORD, AND HIS / WONDERS IN THE DEEP' PS.CVII.23.24'
Details
Description: Lead letters. Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: stone
People
Sainty, Philip Age: 90 Date of Death: 21/1/1844 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: ship builder Organisation:
Obelisk at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, dedicated to Charles Anderson Pelham d. 1846
Location
Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England
Transcript
[West side] ‘TO THE MEMORY / OF / CHARLES ANDERSON PELHAM / EARL OF YARBOROUGH / BARON YARBOROUGH / OF YARBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN / BARON WORSLEY / OF APPULDURCOMBE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT / D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A. / WHOSE BENEVOLENCE KINDNESS, HEART / AND / MANY VIRTUES / ENDEARED HIM TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM / THIS MONUMENT / WAS ERECTED / AS TESTIMONY AFFECTION AND RESPECT / BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION’ [East side] ‘AS THE OWNER OF LARGE ESTATES / HE WAS ONE OF THOSE MOST CONSPICUOUS / FOR THE QUALITIES / WHICH PECULIARLY ADORN THAT STATION / AND / AS THE FIRST COMMODORE /OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON / HE WAS EMINENT / IN FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING /
BY HIS EXAMPLE AND LIBERALITY /ALL THAT WAS CALCULATED / TO IMPROVE / THE SCIENCE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE / AND TO ADVANCE / THE MARITIME INTRESTS [sic] OF HIS COUNTRY / HE DIED ON BOARD HIS YACHT / THE KESTREL /IN THE PORT OF VIGO IN SPAIN / SEPTEMBER 5TH 1846 / AGED 65‘
Details
Description: Obelisk on a tall square base, the lower part stepped with vermiculated rustication. Type: Obelisk Materials: Granite Vessel: Kestrel
People
Pelham, Charles Anderson Age: 65 Date of Death: 5/9/1846 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commodore Organisation: Royal Yacht Squadron
Extra
Notes: 1st Earl of Yarborough, founder of Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes. Bibliography: Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd 'Buildings of England: Hampshire and Isle of Wight' (London, 1996). Website, Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight.
