Tablet in St Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, commemorating Admiral Nicholas Haddock d. 1746
Location
St Clement's Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England
Details
Type: Tablet
People
Haddock, Nicholas Age: Date of Death: 26/9/1746 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Place of burial. Twenty years after his death, a white marble tablet to his memory was erected on the exterior wall of the church. This was destroyed in the restoration of 1837. Bibliography: 'Dictionary of National Biography'; 'Gentleman's Magazine' vol. 30, p. 623 (London, 1760).
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India commemorating John Swift, d. 1791
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Mr. John Swift, Mariner, / departed this life 26th April 1791, Aet 70 years. / An old inhabitant of Calcutta and near / 50 years a resident in India. / Happy is he, the only happy man / Who out of choice does all the good he can; / who business loves, and others better makes, / By prudent industry, and care he takes, / God's blessing here he'll have, and man's esteem / And when he dies his works will follow him'
Details
Vessel: Rodney
People
Swift, John Age: 70 Date of Death: 26/4/1791 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Mariner Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.77-8
Gravestone at Church of St Thomas A Becket, Warblington, Hampshire, commemorating David Cowan d. 1853
Location
Church of St Thomas A Becket, Warblington, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'MARY HARFIELD / WIFE OF DAVID COWAN ESQ / LATE SURGEON / OF PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD / DIED 7TH FEBRY 1841 AGED 52 / Near this dear spot I first was blest / with Mary's spotless love. / Beneath this stone her ashes rest. / Her soul has soared above. / ALSO / THE REMAINS OF THE ABOVE / DAVID COWAN ESQR. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / THE 13TH OF NOVEMBER 1853 / AGED 76 YEARS'
Statue at the Old Library, Lichfield of a naval brigade rating from HMS ‘Powerful’
Location
Old Library, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Details
Description: Sailor in field service order holding a Lee Enfield rifle Mark 1. 'HMS POWERFUL' on his cap ribbon. Type: Statue Position: South wall Materials: Ketton stone Date Erected: 1905 Artists: Robert Bridgeman & Sons, George Frederick Bodley Vessel: HMS Powerful
Event
Boer Wars
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Africa
Extra
Notes: From a South African war memorial erected in Duncombe Place York. Replaced with an unarmed figure. Bibliography: Public Monument and Sculpture Association, National Recording Project. Pieter van der Merwe 'Another Lichfield Sailor', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 95, No. 4. (November 2009) P. 483. Recorder: Dr Pieter van der Merwe Photographer: Dr Pieter van der Merwe
Memorial at Highland Road Cemetery, Portsmouth commemorating William Johnson d. 1897
Location
Highland Road cemetery, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'Beneath this stone / LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF/WILLIAM JOHNSON / WHO AS A POWDER MONKEY / FOUGHT AT NAVARINO OCTOBER 20TH 1827 / ON BOARD H.M.S. GENOA / HE AFTERWARDS SERVED ON THE COAST OF SYRIA / AT ST JEAN D'ACRE AND IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD / BEING CAST ASHORE WHEN IN HMS WOLVERINE / HE DIED AT THE PORTSMOUTH WORKHOUSE / JULY 12TH 1897 AGED 86 YEARS / HE WAS DRAWN TO HIS GRAVE BY BRITISH SAILORS / ON A GUN CARRIAGE COVERED WITH THE UNION JACK / THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY / PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO HONOUR ONE WHO IF IN A / HUMBLE CAPACITY HELPED TO BUILD UP OUR GREAT EMPIRE'
Details
Description: Foul anchor and rock. Type: Gravestone
Event
St Jean D'Acre
Event Date
1840
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Johnson, William Age: 86 Date of Death: 12/7/1897 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at the Parish Church, Willisden, London commemorating Captain Arthur Brooke, RN d. 1893
Location
Parish Church, Willisden, London, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of my husband, Captain Arthur T Brooke RN Born at Colebrooke Co Fermannah, Ireland 6th June 1838. Died at Devonport 5 April 1893 while in command of the Royal Naval Barracks and as flag captain to HRH the commander in Chief. He shall call upon me and I will hear him yea I am with him in trouble deliver him and bring him to honour Psalm XCI 15V'
Details
Description: In the form of a ship's mast with rope coiled round the base and an anchor (broken). Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Marble
People
Brooke, Arthur T. Age: 55 Date of Death: 5/4/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Monuments at St Nicholas’s Parish Church, Newport, Shropshire commemorating Commander Walter Henry Leeke RN d. 1924
Location
St Nicholas's Parish Church, Newport, Shropshire, England
Transcript
'Walter Henry Leeke Commander Royal Navy son of Thomas Newton and Annabella Mary Leeke. Served in H.M.S. Warspite in the battle of Jutland. Died at Kampala Uganda, February 8th 1924 aged 38'
Details
Type: Wall monument. Position: West wall of nave. Vessel: HMS Warspite
Event
Battle of Jutland
Event Date
1916
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Leeke, Walter Henry Age: 38 Date of Death: 8/2/1924 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet at Bristol Cathedral dedicated to Joseph Parker d. 1844
Location
Cathedral, Bristol, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ELIZABETH PARKER, / THE WIFE OF JOSEPH PARKER, / SURGEON IN THE ROYAL NAVY / AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE LATE LUDOVICK GRANT ESQ OF KNOCKANDO IN MURRAYSHIRE / SHE BORE A LONG AND PAINFUL ILLNESS / WITH EXEMPLARY PATIENCE / AND YIELDED UP HER SPIRIT / INTO THE HANDS OF ITS MAKER / WITH PIOUS RESIGNATION / ON THE 29TH JUNE 1826 / ON THE 54TH YEAR OF HER AGE / ALSO OF / JOSEPH PARKER ESQR. / HER HUSBAND / WHO DIED IN BATH / 4TH JULY 1844 AGED 84 YEARS / THEIR REMAINS ARE BURIED / IN A GRAVE NEAR THIS MONUMENT'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: South transept Materials: Marble
People
Parker, Joseph Age: 84 Date of Death: 4/7/1844 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: With associated ledger in North Aisle. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969 Photographer: B. Tomlinson 1996