Category Archives: Recreation

Horta, Azores, Rest of the World

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.

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St Mary's Chapel, Buckler's Hard, Hampshire, England

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

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All Saints Church, Sandon, Staffordshire, England

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

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St Mary, Rotherhithe, London, England

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

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St Mary's church, Whickham, Tyne and Weir, England

M6513 Harry Clasper

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

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Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England

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).

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Compass Gardens, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England

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.

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St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe, Essex, England

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:

Extra


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Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England

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.

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All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Memorial tile in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, commemorating William Taylor d. 1876

Location

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Transcript

'WILLIAM TAYLOR / aged 22 / lost from the Yacht 'Iona’ / off Portland / Aug, 22 1876 / buried at Steeple Lulworth'

Details

Type: Memorial tile
Vessel: Iona

People

Taylor, William
Age: 22
Date of Death: 22/8/1876
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Yacht crew
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Bibliography: Alfred L. Wakeling and Peter Moon 'Tiles of Tragedy' (Brightlingsea, 2001)

Photographer: P Lacey

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