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Msida Bastion Cemetery, Malta, Rest of the World

Memorial in Msida Bastion Cemetery, Malta commemorating Robert Cleveland d. 1848

Location

Msida Bastion Cemetery, Malta, Rest of the World

Details

Vessel: Porcupine

People

Cleveland, Robert
Age: 25
Date of Death: 27/4/1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Captain schooner 'Porcupine' of London.

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St Nicholas's Church, St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

Monument in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, to Admiral Sir Charles Taylor RN, d. 1835

Location

St Nicholas's Church, St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

Transcript

'TO THE MEMORY OF SIR CHARLES TYLER / OF COTTRELL IN THIS PARISH / ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE AND KNIGHT GRAND CROSS / OF THE MOST HONOURABLE AND MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH / WHO DIED THE 28TH DAY OF SEPTR 1835 AGED 75 YEARS / HIS LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY / DURING A PERIOD OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTY AND DANGER / AND HE BORE A DISTINGUISHED PART IN THE EVER MEMORABLE / BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR / IN WHICH HE COMMANDED THE TONNANT 80 GUNS / HE WAS HONORED BY THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE HERO / UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES HE THEN FOUGHTAND IN WHOSE GLORIOUS END / IT WAS NEARLY HIS FATE TO PARTICIPATE / HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER WAS MARKED BY MANY ACTS / OF VALOR AND HONORABLE SERVICE / WHICH WON FOR HIM THOSE HIGH DISTINCTIONS / WHICH WERE CONFERRED ON HIM BY HIS SOVEREIGN / WITH THE GENERAL APPROBATION OF HIS COUTRYMEN / ALSO OF MARGARET WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED THE 21ST DAY OF JULY 1835 AGED 76 YEARS'

Details

Description: A draped urn above the inscription tablet, a coat of arms below.
Type: Wall tablet
Vessel: HMS Tonnant

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Tyler, Charles
Age: 75
Date of Death: 28/9/1835
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the White
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER.

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  "content": "<p>Monument in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, to Admiral Sir Charles Taylor RN,  d. 1835</p>",
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Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England

Gravestone in Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, commemorating Gilbert Frank Wright d. 1908

Location

Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England

Transcript

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / GILBERT FRANK WRIGHT / WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON G.E.R. SS Gt YARMOUTH / 27th OCTOBER 1908 / AGED 26 YEARS / ALSO OF / FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT / WHO DIED AT SANTOS, BRAZIL / 13th DECEMBER 1891 / AGED 20 YEARS. / 'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH'

Details

Description: Carved with a foul anchor.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Area A to right of path
Materials: White marble
Vessel: SS Great Yarmouth

People

Wright, Gilbert Frank
Age:
Date of Death: 27/10/1908
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: M.E. Manton 1997

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  "transcript": "'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / GILBERT FRANK WRIGHT / WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON G.E.R. SS Gt YARMOUTH / 27th OCTOBER 1908 / AGED 26 YEARS / ALSO OF / FREDERICK WILLIAM WRIGHT / WHO DIED AT SANTOS, BRAZIL / 13th DECEMBER 1891 / AGED 20 YEARS. / 'IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH'",
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Holy Trinity Church, St Anne Street, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Liverpool commemorating Wibergh Penny d. 1839

Location

Holy Trinity Church, St Anne Street, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Wibergh Penny Chief Officer of the ship 'Frances Charlotte' of London lost overboard at Sydney New South Wales 20th April 1839, age 22'

Details

Vessel: Frances Charlotte

People

Penny, Wibergh
Age: 22
Date of Death: 20/4/1839
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Chief Officer
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office,compiled by James Gibson, d.1886, vol. 2, p. 295. Church demolished in 1970.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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  "transcript": "'Wibergh Penny Chief Officer of the ship 'Frances Charlotte' of London lost overboard at Sydney New South Wales 20th April 1839, age 22'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Liverpool commemorating Wibergh Penny d. 1839</p>",
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    "recorder": "Captain J. P. Brand",
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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, commemorating W. B. Birch, HEIC d. 1811

Location

South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Transcript

'To the Memory of W. B. Birch / fifth officer of the ship 'Lady Lushington' / who departed this life January 8th 1811 / aged 16 years'

Details

Vessel: Lady Lushington

People

Birch, W. B.
Age: 16
Date of Death: 8/1/1811
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Fifth officer
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.96.

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  "transcript": "'To the Memory of W. B. Birch / fifth officer of the ship 'Lady Lushington' / who departed this life January 8th 1811 / aged 16 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, West Bengal, commemorating W. B. Birch, HEIC  d. 1811</p>",
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Fort Canning Green Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World

Memorial at Fort Canning Green Cemetery, Singapore, commemorating William Henry Minard d. 1851

Location

Fort Canning Green Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World

Transcript

‘Sacred / to the / memory / of / WILLIAM HENRY MINARD / Master Mariner / Died at Singapore Dec 30, 1850 / Aged 52 years'

Details

Type: Tablet
Position: North wall N66 276

People

Minard, William Henry
Age: 52
Date of Death: 30/12/1851
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Bibliography: Alan Harfield 'Early Cemeteries in Singapore' (Putney 1988) p. 216. Burial Register gives date of death as 1851.

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  "transcript": "‘Sacred / to the / memory / of / WILLIAM HENRY MINARD / Master Mariner / Died at Singapore Dec 30, 1850 / Aged 52 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at Fort Canning Green Cemetery, Singapore, commemorating William Henry Minard d. 1851</p>",
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Frederick Job d. 1861

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Capt. William Fred. Job died 7th March 1861 age 36'

Details

People

Job, William Frederick
Age: 36
Date of Death: 7/3/1861
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 7, p. 73.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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  "transcript": "'Capt. William Fred. Job died 7th March 1861 age 36'",
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    "notes": "From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 7, p. 73.",
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St Martin's Church, Canterbury, Kent, England

Headstone at St Martin’s Church, Canterbury, Kent commemorating Commander John Rutter, HM Packet Service d. 1825

Location

St Martin's Church, Canterbury, Kent, England

Transcript

'John Whitfield Rutter / Commander in His Majesty's Packet Service / on the Dover Station / departed this life / in the fifty third year of his age on the twenty seventh day of October / MDCCCXXV / Mary RUTTER / widow of the above / departed this life / in the seventy ninth year of her age / Twenty sixth day of May / MDCCCLIV. (An anchor) Heb. VI Chap. 19th ver.'

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Type: Headstone
Position: Churchyard

People

Rutter, John Whitfield
Age: 52
Date of Death: 27/10/1825
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Commander
Organisation: HM Packet Service

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  "transcript": "'John Whitfield Rutter / Commander in His Majesty's Packet Service / on the Dover Station / departed this life / in the fifty third year of his age on the twenty seventh day of October / MDCCCXXV / Mary RUTTER / widow of the above / departed this life / in the seventy ninth year of her age / Twenty sixth day of May / MDCCCLIV. (An anchor) Heb. VI Chap. 19th ver.'",
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St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, London, England

Memorial at St Mary Abbot’s Church, Kensington commemorating Robert Watson Cosier d. 1894

Location

St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, London, England

Transcript

'...Robert Watson COSIER...who died 23 June 1894 on board the Messageries Maritimes SS VILLE DELA CIOTAT buried at sea off Aden...Jeremiah 31.3 Erected by EC'

Details

Vessel: SS Ville de la Ciotat

People

Cosier, Robert Watson
Age:
Date of Death: 23/6/1894
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: Rev. William Henry Donnan 1978

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  "content": "<p>Memorial at St Mary Abbot’s Church, Kensington commemorating Robert Watson Cosier d. 1894</p>",
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St Mary's Church, Shotley, Suffolk, England

Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Shotley, Suffolk commemorating Lieutenant-Commander Henry Clifton-Mogg d. 1915

Location

St Mary's Church, Shotley, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'Henry Raymond Clifton Mogg, Lt Cdr R.N. who died 2 Nov 1915 age 32 while in command of H.M.S. Milne'

Details

Position: Naval cemetery
Vessel: HMS Milne

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Clifton-Mogg, Henry Raymond
Age: 32
Date of Death: 2/11/1915
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Died of pneumonia.
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1967

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    "recorder": "Reverend William Henry Donnan 1967",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters