Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Henry Brown d. 1899
Location
Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England
Transcript
'In loving memory / of / Henry Brown / (Boy) of H.M.S. 'Volage' / who departed this life / Jan'y 14th 1899 / aged 17 years / the Lord Gave, and the Lord / hath taken away, blessed be the / name of the Lord / Erected by his ship mates as a / token of their respect and esteem'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Nonconformist 477 Artists: Charles Weylth Appleby Vessel: HMS Volage
People
Brown, Henry Age: 17 Date of Death: 14/1/1899 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Boy Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in Waldenbury, Hertfordshire dedicated to Captain William Fothergill RN d. 1817
Location
All Saints Church, Waldenbury, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'S M / OF CAPTn WILLIAM FOTHERGILL, RN / ... Having passed some years in the East India Company`s and Merchant Services he entered the / Royal Navy at the commencement of the war 1793; after sharing in the glory of the victories / of Lords Howe and Bridport in 1794 and 1795 he personally distinguished himself 1799 / when Lieut. in temporary command of the Rattlesnake sloop of war of 18 guns / at anchor in Algoa Bay by engaging for seven hours LA PRENEUSE French frigate of / 44 guns and beating her off under circumstances eminently advantageous to HM service. / On his promotion he afterwards commanded on Foreign Stations HM Ships DIOMEDE / LANCASTER, ULYSSES, and ARGO. His intrepidity and experience secured him the / confidence of his superiors, his integrity and unassuming manners the friendship and esteem / of his equals, and his benevolence and humanity the fidelity and affections of his inferiors. / On retiring to enjoy the fruits of long and arduous service he became the victim of a painful / and lingering illness which he bore with fortitude peculiar to himself, but which at length / closed a life beneficial to his country and honourable to his fame. / He died in this Parish 18th July 1817 in the 49th Year of his Age. / "Alike to him each climate and each blast, / The first in danger, in retreat the last" / Falconer.'
Details
Description: Trophy of arms above the inscription.
Fothergill, William Age: 49 Date of Death: 18/7/1817 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Honourable East India Company, Royal Navy
Memorial at St Michael’s Church, Aberystwyth commemorating Thomas Lloyd d. 1857
Location
St Michael's Church, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
Transcript
'HERE / Lieth the body of / THOMAS / Son of THOMAS LLOYD / of this town, Mariner / by JANE his Wife, / who died 27th Day / of January, 1825, / AGED 7 WEEKS / Also / THOMAS LLOYD / who died April 3 / 1857 / AGED 72 YEARS'
Memorial at St Lawrence’s Church, Seale commemorating Ensign Edward Noel Long d. 1809 as a result of a collision at sea
Location
St Lawrence's Church, Seale, Surrey, England
Transcript
'THIS STONE IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF / EDWARD NOEL LONG / ENSIGN IN THE COLDSTREAM REGIMENT OF FOOT-GUARDS / ELDEST SON OF EDWARD BEESTON LONG / OF THIS PARISH, / HE WAS BORN MARCH 22ND 1788 / AND ON HIS VOYAGE TO JOIN THE BRITISH FORCES IN SPAIN, / HE WITH OTHERS OF THE REGIMENT / PERISHED IN THE OCEAN NEAR CAPE ST VINCENT / DURING THE CONFUSION OF A FATAL ACCIDENT / OCCASIONED BY THE ISIS MAN OF WAR / FALLING ON BOARD THE TRANSPORT WHEREIN HE WAS EMBARKED / IN THE NIGHT OF THE 6TH OF MARCH / 1809 / THE EXCELLENT QUALITIES OF HIS BRAIN AND HEART, / WHICH SO DEEPLY ENDEARED HIS TO HIS RELATIONS, / AND TO HIS MANY YOUTHFUL COMPANIONS, / HAVE BEEN THUS COMMEMORATED / BY HIS EARLY FRIEND AND SCHOOLFELLOW, // NOW LAST, BUT NEAREST , OF THE SOCIAL BAND, / SEE, HONEST, OPEN, GENEROUS CLEON STAND; / WITH SCARCE ONE SPECK, TO CLOUD THE PLEASING SCENE, / NO VICE DEGRADES THAT PUREST SOUL SERENE, / ON THE SAME DAY OUR STUDIOUS RACE BEGUN / ON THE SAME DAY OUR STUDIOUS RACE WAS RUN; / THUS SIDE BY SIDE, WE PASS'D OUR FIRST CAREER, / THUS SIDE BY SIDE WE STROVE FOR MANY A YEAR. / AT LAST CONCLUDED OUR SCHOLASTIC LIFE, / WE NEITHER CONQUER'D IN THE CLASSIC STRIFE, / AS SPEAKERS, EACH SUPPORTS AN EQUAL NAME, / AND CROWDS ALLOW TO BOTH A PARTIAL FAME; / TO SOOTH A YOUTHFUL RIVAL'S EARLY PRIDE / THOUGH CLEON'S CANDOUR WOULD THE PALM DIVIDE; / YET CANDOUR'S SELF COMPELS ME NOW TO OWN, / JUSTICE AWARDS IT TO MY FRIEND ALONE.'
Details
Description: The upper part of the memorial is carved as if draped. A relief of the collision is placed below the inscription tablet. The star of the Order of the Garter is shown on the apron. Type: Wall tablet Position: East wall of north transept Materials: Marble Artists: J. Bedford Vessel: HMS Isis, Prince George
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Long, Edward Noel Age: 21 Date of Death: 6/5/1809 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ensign Organisation: Coldstream Guards
Extra
Notes: 'The Caledonian Mercury' says that the transport 'Prince George' ran down an American bark during the night of the 6th March when bound for Lisbon. Her captain and all of her crew, except one, managed to get on board the 'Prince George'. In the confusion, the 'Prince George' then collided with the 'Isis' frigate. Whilst attempting to get on board the 'Isis', Ensign Long and two or three privates of the Coldstream Guards, fell overboard and drowned. The 'Prince George' survived the accident with the loss of a mast. Long's school friend, Lord Byron writing in 1821, said that Long's father had requested that he write an epitaph but he had not the heart to complete it. Byron confuses the transport 'Prince George' with the naval vessel 'St George', wrecked in the same year. The epitaph on the memorial is taken from the poem 'Childish Recollections' published in 'Hours of Idleness' 1807. Bibliography: Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964). 'Caledonian Mercury' (Edinburgh) 1 April 1809, Captain William Stothert 'A Narrative of the Principal Events of the Campaigns of 1809, 1810 &c.' (1812) p. 3. Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Ed. Fitz Green Halleck 'The works of Lord Byron in verse and prose' (New York, 1839 ) p.251 Photographer: Martin Stiles 2011
Gravestone in Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey commemorating John Gunnis Lean RN d. 1854
Location
Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of John Gunnis Lean, paymaster and purser R.N. who departed this life on 20th June 1854 aged 38 years [verse] Also Samuel John only son of the above, aged 1 year 8 months [verse] R.I.P.'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: plot 860
People
Lean, John Gunnis Age: 38 Date of Death: 20/6/1854 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Paymaster and Purser Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Church of St John the Baptist, Margate, Kent commemorating Captain John Coppin RN d. 1666
Location
Church of St John the Baptist, Margate, Kent, England
Transcript
'Here lies intered the body of John Coppin Esqr: the sonn / of Wm. COPPIN who was borne the 24th of May 1607 / and being Commandr of His Majests: Shipp Mary was by / the Dutch shott through ye legg one ye the 28th of September / 1652 and being Commanded by his Majesty: to Command / his shipp St george on the 25th. July 1665 Recieved / five several wounds from the Dutch one the 1st June / 1666 & one the 2nd of June foll[owing] a shott in the Belly where / of he died the 4th being aged 59 yeares 13 dayes'
Details
Description: Coat of arms above the inscription with three boars heads Type: Ledger Materials: Black limestone Vessel: HMS 'St George', HMS 'Mary'
Event
The Four Days Battle
Event Date
1-4/6/1666
Event Category
Second Anglo-Dutch War
People
Coppin, John Age: 59 Date of Death: 4/6/1666 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: John Le Neve 'Monumenta Anglicana', vol.ii, p.116 (London, 1718). Photographer: Derrick Chivers
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
