Column at Hereford commemorating Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson d. 1805
Location
Castle Green, Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Transcript
'HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT NELSON K.B. / VICE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE IN THE BRITISH NAVY / AND DUKE OF BRONTE IN SICILY / WAS BORN XXIV SEPTEMBER MDCCLVIII / AND TERMINATED A CAREER OF UNEXAMPLED GLORY / OFF CAPE TRAFALGAR XXI OCTOBER MDCCCV / IN A BATTLE / WHICH NEARLY ANNIHILATED THE MARINE OF / FRANCE AND SPAIN / AND CONFIRMED IN THE EYES OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD / THE MARINE SUPERIORITY OF GREAT BRITAIN / THIS GALLANT HERO / CAPTURED OR DESTROYED / FORTY SEVEN SHIPS / IN VARIOUS ENGAGEMENTS / WITH THE ENEMIES OF HIS COUNTRY / HIS FELLOW CITIZENS OF HEREFORD / IN GRATEFUL RECOLLECTION OF SUCH PRE EMINENT SERVICES /CONSECRATE THIS COLUMN / TO HIS HONOUR AND IMMORTAL MEMORY / MDCCC[VI]'
Details
Description: A Tuscan column on a stepped base with buttresses decorated with inverted torches. The capital is surmounted with a urn clasped by dolphins, anchors and rope swags below. The inscription is on the south side with a profile portrait flanked by trophies above. Type: Column Materials: Ashlar Date Erected: 1806 Artists: Thomas Hardwick
Event
Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Event Date
1805
Event Category
Napoleonic Wars
People
Nelson, Horatio Age: 47 Date of Death: 21/10/1805 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Built by Wood of Hereford. Bibliography: Colin White (editor) 'The Nelson Companion' (Portsmouth,1995) p.143. Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Gravestone at St Cadfan’s Church, Tywyn, Gwynedd commemorating John Roberts d. 1874 and William Roberts d. 1877
Location
St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales
Transcript
'William Roberts, Glan-y-Mor, Towyn, died 6 March 1883 aged 79 years. Also John, son of the above who drownded [sic] in his voyage from Calcutta to London, Jany 21st 1874 aged 24 years. Also William, son of above, who fell overboard the 'SEVEN BROTHERS' off the TUSKAR Lightship, April 21st, 1877 aged 31 years'
Roberts, John Age: 24 Date of Death: 21/1/1874 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Roberts, William Age: 31 Date of Death: 21/4/1877 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Memorial at Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore commemorating Captain G F Andree, d. 1851
Location
Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World
Transcript
‘Sacred / to the memory of / CAPT G. F. ANDREE, / of the Barque ‘CLARISSA’ / who departed this life / at Singapore / on the 18th May 1851 / Aged 54 years, 10 mths & 22 Dys'
Details
Type: Tablet Position: South east wall SE31 C77 Artists: P. & S. Lindeman & Sons Vessel: Clarissa
People
Andree, G. F. Age: 54 Date of Death: 18/5/1851 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: Alan Harfield 'Early Cemeteries in Singapore' (Putney 1988) p. 239.
Memorial in Stranger’s Cemetery, Fortuneswell, Dorset, commemorating William Eldridge and James Jackson d. 1867
Location
Stranger's Cemetery, Fortuneswell, Dorset, England
Transcript
'Sacred / to the memory of / WILLIAM ELDRIDGE / A.B. H.M.S.'Boscawen' / who was drowned January 20th 1867 / aged 23 years / This stone is erected by his ship / mates as a token of esteem for / the departed and for a memorial / to the living that in the midst of / life we are in death / Also of JAMES JACKSON RMLI / died March 15th 1867 aged 32 years'
Details
Position: 116 Vessel: HMS Boscawen
People
Eldridge, William Age: 23 Date of Death: 20/1/1867 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Jackson, James Age: 32 Date of Death: 15/3/1867 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Memorial at St Martin’s Church, Wareham, Dorset, commemorating Commander John Calcraft RN d. 1868
Location
St Martin's Church, Wareham, Dorset, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / JOHN HALES MONTAGU CALCRAFT / COMMANDER IN THE ROYAL NAVY / ELDEST SON OF JOHN HALES CALCRAFT / BORN MAY 1831 [?] DIED DECEMBER 1868 / HE WAS TWICE RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT AS / REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BOROUGH OF WAREHAM'
Details
People
Calcraft, John Hales Montagu Age: Date of Death: 12/1868 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Tablet at St Cenydd’s Church, Llangennith, Swansea commemorating the Reverend John Llewellin d. 1912, chaplain RN
Location
St Cenydd's Church, Llangennith, Swansea, Wales
Transcript
'The Revd John Llewellin of Brazenose College in Oxford Clerk, Master of Arts, for many years a chaplain in her Majesty's Navy, afterwards Rector of Solterley in the County of Suffolk. He died in this his native town to which he was devoted, on the first day of May 1912 aged 67 "Loyal to Pembroke"'
Details
Type: Tablet Position: Churchyard
People
Llewellin, John Age: 67 Date of Death: 1/5/1912 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Chaplain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St Michael’s Church, Beccles, Suffolk commemorating Isaac Blowers, d. 1819
Location
St Michael's Church, Beccles, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Isaac Blowers, Gent. born 31 Dec 1727, Died 24 Nov. 1819. Above 60 years a member of this corporation served the office of Port Reeve four times'
Details
People
Blowers, Isaac Age: 91 Date of Death: 24/11/1819 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Port Reeve Organisation: Portreeve, Surveyors and Commonalty of the Fen of Beccles
Wall memorial in the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington, Hampshire commemorating Captain Josias Rogers RN d. 1795
Location
Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Lymington, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'AS / A Tribute of / Grateful Affection, / This Monument / is sacred / To the Memory of / CAPTAIN / JOSIAS ROGERS, / Of His MAJESTY's Ship / QUEBEC.', 'Who, during the American War, braved every Danger, / And suffered all the Severities of Wounds and Imprisonment. / In the Campaign of 1794, he commanded the Naval Battalions / At the Reduction of the French Islands in the West Indies: / Where his Services were great to his Country, and honourable to his own Character. / In his Excursions to save Grenada, he died of the Yellow Fever, on the 24th of April, 1795, aged 40. / The COUNCIL of Grenada decreed a Monument in Honour of his PUBLIC SERVICES: / And in Remembrance of his PRIVATE VIRTUES, his Widow / soothed her Sorrows, / By inscribing this Tablet to his Memory. / By the same dreadful Disorder, on the 13th May, 1794, (after having distinguish'd himself / in the Dangers and Fatigues of the Campaign) fell at Guadeloupe in his 26th Year, / JAMES ROGERS, his Brother, and First LIEUTENANT of the same ship: / Whose generous and manly Principles were admired / by All who knew him. / On the 9th of the same Month, at the Age of 19: the Promise of Virtue and Talents, in JOSIAS ROGERS, his Nephew / and also LIEUT. of the QUEBEC, / died at Martinique, by the same Fatality'
Details
Description: White marble stele resting on a narrow moulded shelf supported on pilasters with an eliptical apron below bearing the inscription. The whole set on a slate mount. The stele is carved in relief with an urn on a pillar. A draped female figure garlands the monument with flowers and points heavenwards, the fluke of an anchor seen behind her feet. The stern of a warship is shown on the other side of the urn, inscribed 'QUEBEC'. Type: Wall memorial Position: Sanctuary south wall Materials: Marble, slate Date Erected: 1797 Artists: John Bacon, the elder Vessel: HMS Quebec
People
Rodgers, Josias Age: 40 Date of Death: 24/4/1795 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Rogers, Josias Age: 40 Date of Death: 24/4/1795 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Rogers, James Age: 26 Date of Death: 13/5/1794 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Rogers, Josias Age: 19 Date of Death: 9/5/1794 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Design in V&A showing Hope on the other side of the urn. Bibliography: P. Clissold 'Ships and Monuments in the Solent Area', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 58, p. 214 (Greenwich, 1972); 'Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964); John Physick 'Designs for English Scupture 1680-1860' (London, 1969) pp.156-7. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) Photographer: B. Tomlinson 2019
Monument commemorating William Cannynges d. 1474 in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
Location
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, England
Transcript
'Orate pro ani[m]abus Gulielmi Cannynge quondam hujus villae et Johannae uxoris ejus' [Pray for the souls of William Cannynges sometime of this town and his wife Joanna]
Details
Description: Recumbent effigies of Canynges and his wife Joanna, under a Gothic canopy, inscription on a scroll above. Merchants' marks are painted on the front of the tomb chest.
Type: Monument Position: South transept Materials: Stone
People
Canynges, William Age: 75 Date of Death: 7/11/1474 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Shipowner; merchant Organisation:
Extra
Notes: A merchant, shipowner, mayor, priest and generous benefactor of this church. Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at Mount Young Cemetery, San Juan Island, Washington State, USA commemorating Private William Davis RMLI d. 1868
Location
Mount Young Cemetery, San Juan Island, Washington State, USA, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Sacred / to / the Memory / of / William Davis. Pte 109 Co RMLI / who was accidentally drowned / May 7th 1868 / Aged 26 years / This Tablet / is erected to his memory by his surviving comrades.'
Details
Type: Gravestone
People
Davis, William Age: 26 Date of Death: 7/5/1868 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private RMLI Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry
Extra
Recorder: J.A. Lavin, 1988
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
