Memorial formerly in the Royal Naval Hospital burial ground, Greenwich, London commemorating Captain Thomas Colby RN d. 1804
Location
Royal Naval Hospital, Old Burial Ground (Nurses' Home), Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of / Thomas Colby retired captain / Royal Navy and one of the / Commanders of Greenwich Hospital / who died at Torrington, Devon / 21st September 1864 aged 82 years / and of Mary his wife who died at / Greenwich 3rd June 1860 aged 65 years / and was buried in the Royal Hospital / New Cemetery / "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"'
Details
Position: Mausoleum (interior south wall)
People
Colby, Thomas Age: 82 Date of Death: 21/9/1804 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Royal Navy
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Notes: Destroyed in 1939-45 war. Transcription in PRO. Greenwich Hospital memorial Inscription 99618.
Wall tablet at St Peter’s Church, Tichfield, Hampshire commemorating Richard Veale d. 1807
Location
St Peter's Church, Tichfield, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'THIS MARBLE IS INSCRIBED / TO THE MEMORY OF / RICHARD VEALE ESQRE / LATE STOREKEEPER OF HIS MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE / AT PORTSMOUTH; / WHO DIED THE XXXIST DAY OF AUGUST MDCCCVII / AGED LXXXV YEARS / ALSO OF MARY VEALE, HIS WIFE, / WHO DIED THE XX1ST DAY OF APRIL MDCCC / AGED LXXIV YEARS'
Details
Description: Pilasters either side of inscription tablet with inverted torches. Type: Wall tablet Position: South wall Materials: Marble Artists: Richard Westmacott 1775-1856
People
Veale, Richard Age: 85 Date of Death: 31/8/1807 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Storekeeper of the Ordnance Organisation:
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Notes: DOSSIER, sketch. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating John Woulds d. 1893
Location
Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England
Transcript
'In/memory of / JOHN WOULDS / Bandsman H.M.S. 'Anson' / who died August 10 1893 / Aged 20 years / This stone is erected by his / shipmates as a token of esteem'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Church of England (old) 394 Vessel: HMS Anson
People
Woulds, John Age: 20 Date of Death: 10/8/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Bandsman Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Cornwall dedicated to those lost during Operation Chariot 1942
Location
Car park, Falmouth, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'OPERATION CHARIOT / FROM THIS HARBOUR 622 SAILORS / AND COMMANDOS SET SAIL FOR / THE SUCCESSFUL RAID ON ST. NAZAIRE / 28TH MARCH 1942 168 WERE KILLED / 5 VICTORIA CROSSES WERE AWARDED / DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF / THEIR COMRADES BY / THE ST. NAZAIRE SOCIETY'
Memorial at East Ham, London commemorating George Story d. 1874
Location
Parish church, East Ham, London, England
Transcript
'In affectionate remembrance. / GEORGE STORY / OF THIS PARISH / BORN 21ST AUGUST 1804 AT SEA ON BOARD H.M.S. TEMERAIRE / DIED ON 10TH MAY 1874. BROTHER THOU ART GONE BEFORE ME / AND THY SOUL I TRUST IS FLOWN / WHERE TEARS ARE WIPED FROM EVERY EYE / AND SORROW IS UNKNOWN. / WHERE MEN ARE SURE TO MEET THE GOOD / WHOM ON EARTH THOU LOVEST BEST / WHERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING AND THE WEARY ARE AT REST / ALSO OF / MARY ANN THOMPSON / SISTER TO THE ABOVE / DIED 22ND FEBRUARY 1921'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard against front wall Vessel: HMS Temeraire
People
Story, George Age: 70 Date of Death: 10/5/1874 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial tablet in Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, commemorating John Henry Francis, Chief Mate, d. 1862
Location
Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World
Transcript
'To the Memory of / JOHN HENRY FRANCIS / Late Chief Mate of / the British Ship / CHILO, who died on / board that ship / on the 28th April 1862 / Aged 37 years / He was the third son / of WILLIAM SKEGGS / FRANCIS of Belle / Grove near Welling / in the county of Kent / England'
Details
Type: Tablet Position: North wall N35 A212 Vessel: 'Chilo'
People
Francis, John Henry Age: 37 Date of Death: 28/4/1862 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Chief Mate Organisation: Unknown
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Bibliography: Alan Harfield 'Early Cemeteries in Singapore' (Putney 1988) p. 195.
Memorial in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, New York, United States of America, commemorating Lieutenant Augustus Ludlow, USN d. 1813
Location
Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, New York, United States of America, Rest of the World
Transcript
'In memory of / Lieutenant AUGUSTUS C. LUDLOW / of the United States Navy / Born in Newburgh, 1792, died in Halifax 1813. Scarcely was he twenty-one years of age / when, like the blooming Euryalus, he accompanied his beloved Commander to battle. / Never could it have been more truly said / 'His amor unus erat pariterque in bella ruebant.' [Aeneid IX 182] [One love united them and side by side they entered combat]. / The favourite of Lawrence and second in command, / he emulated the patriotic valour of his friend on the bloody decks of the Chesapeake and / when required, like him yielded with courageous resignation his spirit to Him who gave it'
Details
Vessel: USS Chesapeake
Event
War of 1812
People
Ludlow, Augustus C Age: 21 Date of Death: 6/1813 Cause of Death: War Casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant USN Organisation: United States Navy
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Notes: See Capt. James Lawrence on same monument. Both Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow were mortally wounded when their ship engaged HMS Shannon on 1 June 1813. USS Ludlow was named after him.
Monument at Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Leatherhead commemorating Admiral James Wishart d. 1723
Location
Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Leatherhead, Surrey, England
Transcript
[Translation from Latin) 'Beneath this place are buried the remains of James Wishart, a most illustrious man. Descended from an ancient Scottish family, he migrated to Holland in early youth. He crossed to England in command of a company with that great Prince of Orange, later King William III, to free the English churches and laws from Roman superstition and tyranny. Later devoting himself entirely to service at sea, he fulfilled the duties of a ships's captain under the King of most illustrious memory with such constant skill in naval affairs, such loyalty, such courage and good fortune that he never surrendered, either to the seas or the enemy, any ship to which he was commissioned either as officer or as commander. If he was not honoured by King William as he was by his successor, that is to be attributed to the premature death of the King, whose opinion of him was fully equal to his deserts. But what William left unfinished was completed by Her Serene Majesty Queen Anne of blessed memory. The distinction of capturing or firing French and Spanish ships in the Port of Vigo was chiefly his, though having been sent elsewhere he had no part whatever in the disaster. The Queen appointed him Rear-Admiral of the Blue; then, on his return from successfully escorting Charles III to Barcelona, and after the victory won over the French at Malaga, where he had command of a flagship, she knighted him. Later she appointed him as naval member of the Council of her most illustrious husband George, Prince of Denmark, Lord High Admiral of England. On his death she appointed Wishart one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Admiral of the Blue squadron, and finally Admiral of the White and Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. Struggling long against ill-health, he preserved the same courage and constancy which he had shown in prosperity, and triumphed over death with the same intrepid spirit with which he had shown his contempt of the enemy. He died on 31st May 1723 at the age of 64. William Wishart Principal of Edinburgh University, gave instructions for this monument to be erected to the memory of a most dear brother who had served his country so well'
Details
Description: Arms and crest above the inscription tablet which is surrounded by naval trophies, a relief of a warship below. Type: Monument Position: North wall Materials: Marble Artists: Edward Stanton, Christopher Horsnaile
People
Wishart, James Age: 64 Date of Death: 31/5/1723 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
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Bibliography: D.B. Ellis 'Admiral Sir James Wishart (1659-1723)', 'Leatherhead & District Local History Society: Proceedings' vol. v, no. 4 (1991) p. 106-111.
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
