Gravestone in Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, commemorating Lieutenant Walter Vivian Butler RN d. 1900
Location
Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England
Transcript
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / WALTER VIVIAN BUTLER. R.N. / GUNNERY LIEUTENANT H.M.S. SEVERN / SON OF SPENCER PERCIVAL AND MARY BUTLER / DIED 12TH NOVEMBER 1900 / AGED 25 YEARS'
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Description: Three tier base, originally with a cross now missing. Type: Gravestone Position: see plan Vessel: HMS Severn
People
Butler, Walter Vivian Age: 25 Date of Death: 12/11/1900 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Gunnery Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St Paul’s Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada commemorating John Samwell, RN and William Stevens, RN, d. 1815
Location
St Paul's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Mr. John Samwell Midshipman of HMS Shannon who died at the Naval Hospital on the 13th June 1815 aged 18 years. Also Mr William Stevens boatswain of the same ship who died there on the 19th June 1815 aged 36 years. Those brave officers clos'd their career in consequence of desperate wounds received in the gallant action between their own ship and the American frigate Chesepak [sic] on the 1 of June 1815 which ended in the capture of the enemy ship in 14 minutes'
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Type: Gravestone Vessel: HMS Shannon
Event
War of 1812
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Samwell, John Age: 18 Date of Death: 13/6/1815 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Stevens, William Age: 36 Date of Death: 19/6/1815 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Also memorial at the Royal Navy Burying Ground, Halifax commemorating five seamen of HMS 'Shannon' who died of their wounds in 1815.
Bibliography: H.F. Pullen 'Shannon and the Chesapeake' (Toronto, 1970).
Gravestone at Irvine Parish Church , North Ayrshire commemorating James Niven RN d. 1812
Location
Parish Church, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland
Transcript
Gravestone erected by David Niven, ship-carpenter, and his wife to their son James, a naval officer who perished on the African coast, 5th December 1812. 'Stand still, all passengers that pass by, / With mourning parents drop a tear; / Behold our sorrow for a son / we loved so tenderly and dear / But called from his native home, / And on a strange and foreign shore, / To pay the tribute due to death, / But hopes to meet to part no more'
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Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard
People
Niven, James Age: Date of Death: 5/12/1812 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Not the Lieutenant James Niven commissioned in 1808, probably a warrant officer. Bibliography: Rev. Charles Rogers 'Monuments and Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland' (vol i, 1871)
Memorial in York Minster commemorating Richard Wilson Fawcett RNVR d. 1915
Location
York Minster, York, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'To the glory of / God and in / loving memory of RICHARD WILFRED / FAWCETT of Rawden / Yorkshire, Surgeon Probationer / R.N.V.R. H.M.S Ferret, / 2nd Lieut, South Staffordshire / Regt. Under the Gallant / leadership of Captain / Kilby he fell fighting / Sept. 25 1915 aged 23. / Requiescat in Pace'
Details
Description: Inscription within a laurel wreath, the family arms above. Type: Wall tablet Position: Chapel of St Nicholas Vessel: HMS Ferret
Event Category
1914 - 1918 First World War
People
Fawcett, Richard Wilfred Age: 23 Date of Death: 25/9/1915 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Surgeon probationer RNVR Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Gravestone in St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall dedicated to Luke Brokenshaw d. 1840
Location
Parish Church, St Michael Caerhays, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'To The / Memory / of / Luke Brokenshaw / Master in the Royal Navy / Who died on the 3rd. of May / 1840 / Aged 60 years. / For a series of years he distinguished / himself in the service of his country, / and participated in the honors / of a perishable fame. / In the retirement of private life, the milder / virtues were equally conspicuous: / the love of kindred, and that / more extended benevolence / which embraces entire / mankind were his. / He taught both by precept and example, the / obligations of christian duty; and / in the hearts of a long race of / friends and dependants, / his name and memory / are embalmed. / To an open profession of religion, he added / the substantial evidences of a renewed / heart; and at the close of a life of / more than ordinary usefulness, / he esteemed it his greatest / happiness to know he was / A sinner saved by Grace'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Vessel: HMS Revenge
Event
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Brokenshaw, Luke Age: Date of Death: 3/5/1840 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: Master of HMS 'Revenge' at Trafalgar. Inscription recorded in Cornwall Record Office AD.676/5. Born 1779. Original gravestone badly damaged. A wooden memorial was present in St Peter's churchyard, Mevagissy, Cornwall in 1967 but is no longer there. Bibliography: Joseph Polsue 'Lake's Parochial History of the County of Cornwall' vol.3 (1870)
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, India commemorating Joseph Weldon, HEIC, d. 1815
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Mr Joseph Weldon / late Branch Pilot in the Honble Company's / Marine who departed this life the 25th January / 1815, aged 50 years. / Living beloved, in all relations true / Exposed to follies, but inclined to few; / Reader - reflect and copy if you can, / the social virtues of this worthy man.'
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People
Weldon, Joseph Age: 50 Date of Death: 25/1/1815 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Branch Pilot Organisation: Bengal Pilot Service
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Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.158.
Gravestone at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire commemorating Captain Charles Leopold Cust RN d. 1931
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Belton, Lincolnshire, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / CHARLES LEOPOLD CUST / FOR THIRTY NINE YEARS / THE DEVOTED SERVANT AND TRUSTED FRIEND / OF HIS SOVEREIGN / BORN FEBY 27 1864 DIED JANY 19 1931 / FEARLESS SIMPLE AND GENEROUS / HIS LOYALTY AND SINCERITY WERE / OF A QUALITY THAT IS GIVEN TO FEW / IN HS UNITY OF PURPOSE HE WAS / PERHAPS UNAWARE OF THE WIDE / AFFECTION WHICH HE INSPIRED / HE RESTS SECURE / IN THE KEEPING OF GOD'[other side] 'MDCCCLXIV MDCCCCXXXI' [motto] 'ESSE QUAM VIDERI', 'THIRD AND LAST BARON OF LEASOWE / IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF CHESTER / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ROYAL / VICTORIAN ORDER EQUERRY IN WAITING / TO HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE FIFTH / A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY'
Details
Description: Inscribed on both sides and carved with a shield of arms and a crest. Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Stone
People
Cust, Charles Leonard Age: Date of Death: 19/1/1931 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters