Wall tablet in Bath Abbey, Bath commemorating Admiral Sir William Hargood, d. 1839.
Location
Bath Abbey, Bath, England
Transcript
'NEAR THIS SPOT ARE DEPOSITED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF / ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM HARGOOD G.C.B. AND G.C.H. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 12TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1839, AGED 79 YEARS / AFTER HAVING SERVED HIS SOVEREIGN AND HIS COUNTRY / WITH ZEAL AND FIDELITY FOR SEVENTY YEARS. / HE WAS A LIEUTENANT ON BOARD THE MAGNIFICENT OF 74 GUNS / WHICH BORE A SHARE IN THE GLORIOUS ACTION BETWEEN RODNEY AND DE GRASSE ON THE 12TH APRIL 1782, / HE AFTERWARDS SERVED ACTIVELY IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD/ D URING THE WAR WHICH FOLLOWED THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE / AND HE COMMANDED THE BELLEISLE OF 80 GUNS IN THE MEMORABLE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR / WHERE HE EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF. / IN THE YEAR 1810 HE OBTAINED THE RANK OF REAR ADMIRAL / AND WAS EMPLOYED AT PORTSMOUTH AND GUERNSEY DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE WAR. / IN APRIL 1833 HE WAS APPOINTED COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT PLYMOUTH / AND REMAINED THERE UNTIL RELIEVED AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE USUAL PERIOD OF SERVICE IN 1836. / HE SERVED AS A LIEUTENANT WITH HIS LATE MAJESTY WILLIAM THE FOURTH AND WAS AFTERWARDS ALWAYS HONOURED WITH THE GRACIOUS KINDNESS AND FRIENDSHIP OF THE MONARCH, / NOR SHOULD HIS PRIVATE VIRTUES PASS UNNOTICED. / EXEMPLARY IN CHARACTER IN THE VARIOUS DUTIES OF SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE / HE WAS BELOVED BY ALL AROUND HIM. / KIND AND CONSIDERATE TO THE DISTRESSED HIS BENEVOLENCE ACTIVE AS UNOSTENTATIOUS / WAS AT ALL TIMES ADMINISTERED WITH CHRISTIAN FEELING / AND HE WILL LONG SURVIVE IN THE MEMORY OF A NUMEROUS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, WHO KNEW AND VALUED HIM / AND DEEPLY LAMENT THE LOSS THEY HAVE SUSTAINED. / THIS TABLET IS CONSECRATED TO THE MEMORY OF A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND / BY HIS ATTACHED AND SORROWING WIDOW MARIA HARGOOD / DAUGHTER OF THOMAS SOMERS COCKS ESQ. / AND GRANDAUGHTER OF ALEXANDER THISTLETHWAYTE OF SOUTHWICK PARK HANTS. ESQ / AD 1840'
Details
Description: Naval trophies above inscription flanked by anthemion motifs, arms and supporters below.
Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Belleisle
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Hargood, William Age: 79 Date of Death: 12/12/1839 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St Nicolas, Chiswick, London commemorating Alexander Brodie d. 1811, ironmaster and inventor
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Chiswick, London, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / ALEXANDER BRODIE ESQ. IRON MASTER LATE OF / CAREY ST. IN LIBERTY OF TROLLS, LONDON, / AND CALCUT IN COUNTY OF SALOP. / A NATIVE OF TRAQUAIR, FIRST INVENTOR / OF THE REGISTER STOVES AND FIRE HEARTHS / FOR SHIPS / HAD THE HONOUR OF SUPPLYING THE WHOLE OF / THE BRITISH NAVY WITH THE LATTER FOR / UPWARDS OF 30 YEARS, TO THE PRESERVATION / OF MANY VALUABLE LIVES SINCE THEIR / INTRODUCTION, AND WAS A GREAT SAVING TO / THE GOVERNMENT / DIED 6TH JAN.1811 AGED 78 YEARS. / HIS MORTAL REMAINS WERE DEPOSITED IN CHISWICK CHURCHYARD CO MIDDLESEX AND THIS / TABLET IS PLACED THERE BY HIS NEPHEWS AND / NIECES / AUGUST 1818'
Details
Position: Churchyard
People
Brodie, Alexander Age: 78 Date of Death: 6/1/1811 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Inventor Organisation:
Memorial in Greenwich, London commemorating former pensioners of the Royal Hospital reburied there.
Location
East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'Opposite this tablet lie interred the remains of about three thousand men, formerly pensioners of the Royal Hospital removed from the infirmary burying ground in 1875. They served their country in the wars which established the naval supremacy of England and died the honoured recipients of her gratitude'
Memorial at St Martin’s Church, Cheriton, Kent commemorating T C Coomber RN Fleet Engineer d. 1921 and G F G Coomber RN Acting Engineer Lieutenant d. 1901
Location
St Martin's Church, Cheriton, Kent, England
Transcript
[S Face]'Sacred to the memory / of my dear husband / T C COOMBER FLEET ENG. R.N. / who died 1st Jan 1921 aged 70 years / 'In Gods Keeping' [E Face] Also of / our dear son / G F G COOMBER / Act. Eng. Lieut. R.N. / who died 4th Dec 1901 / aged 21 years / interred at Nunhead'
Details
Type: Chest-tomb Position: N466
People
Coomber, T. C. Age: 70 Date of Death: 1/1/1921 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Fleet Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Coomber, G. F. G. Age: 21 Date of Death: 4/12/1901 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Engineer Lieutenant RN (acting) Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: Pauline Davey 'St Martins Church, Cheriton Monumental inscriptions' part II, p. 43, no. N466. (Folkestone and District Family History Society 1985).
Wall tablet in Paul, Cornwall dedicated to three fishermen of this parish who died in Tierra-del-Fuego in 1850 on a missionary venture
Location
St Paulinus Church, Paul, Cornwall, England
Transcript
'[Crown] THIS TABLET / IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD, / AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / JOHN BADCOCK, JOHN BRYANT, & JOHN PEARCE. / YOUNG FISHERMEN OF THIS PARISH; WHO NOBLY / JOINED THE MISSIONARY BAND WHICH ACCOMPANIED / THE LATE CAPTN. A. GARDINER, R.N., IN HIS ENDEAVOUR / TO TAKE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST TO THE INHABITANTS OF / TERRA-DEL-FUEGO, IN THE YEAR A.D. 1850. ONE BY ONE THEY ALL / PERISHED FROM WANT AND EXPOSURE. THEIR JOURNAL, ENDED BY / THE DYING HAND OF THE LATEST SURVIVOR, BEARS TESTIMONY TO THE / UNFLINCHING CONSTANCY WITH WHICH THEY "ALL DIED IN FAITH." / [Cross and palm branch] 'S.MATT.XIX.V.29./HEBWS.XI.X.15.16. / "GOD IS NOT ASHAMED/TO BE CALLED/THEIR GOD."
Details
Description: Diamond-shaped tablet the lettering picked out in red.
Type: Wall tablet Position: South side of Nave Materials: Marble
People
Badcock, John Age: Date of Death: 1850 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Fisherman; missionary Organisation: Bryant, John Age: Date of Death: 1850 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Fisherman; missionary Organisation: Pearce, John Age: Date of Death: 1850 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Fisherman; missionary Organisation:
Plaque in St Margaret’s Church, Topsham, Devon commemorating Robert Davy d. 1862
Location
St Margaret's Church, Topsham, Devon, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF ROBERT DAVY OF COUNTESS WEAR OF THIS PARISH, AN EXTENSIVE SHIPBUILDER FOR THE ROYAL NAVY AND OF EAST AND WEST INDIAMEN &c GENERAL MERCHANT AND SHIPOWNER WHO DIED 30TH AUGUST 1862 AGED 99 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS LEAVING FOUR SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER. ALSO GRACE DAVY WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED 5TH JUNE 1839 AGED 75. THEY WERE INTERRED AT ST MARY'S CLYST AND THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THEIR YOUNGEST SON FRANCIS RESIDING AT RIVERSMEET IN THIS PARISH WHO DIED 10TH SEPTEMBER 1896 AGED 86 YEARS. HE WAS INTERRED AT TOPSHAM CEMETERY'
Type: Wall plaque Position: North transept, north wall Materials: Limestone Date Erected: 1883 Artists: Faulkner Vessel: HMS Terror
People
Davy, Robert Age: 99 Date of Death: 30/8/1862 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Shipbuilder / Shipowner Organisation: Royal Navy, East & West Indiamen
Extra
Notes: Built HMS 'Terror' 1836, Terror was lost with Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the North-West Passage. Bibliography: Clive N. Ponsford 'Ship Building on the Exe' (Devon and Cornwall Historical Society 1988) (includes biography of Davy with list of his ships. He built HMS 'Terror' of polar exploration fame).
Gravestone in Borough Cemetery, Harwich, commemorating Charles Parsons and Thomas Gardner d. 1866
Location
Borough Cemetery, Harwich, Essex, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / CHARLES PARSONS / THOMAS GARDNER / SEAMEN OF H.M. GUNBOAT 'MAGNET' / WHO WERE DROWNED IN HARWICH HARBOUR / 2nd JUNE 1866 / BOTH AGED 21 Yrs'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Right of main gate Vessel: HMS Magnet
People
Gardner, Thomas Age: 21 Date of Death: 2/6/1866 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Parsons, Charles Age: 21 Date of Death: 2/6/1866 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: M.E. Manton 1997
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
