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All Saints Church, Ascot Heath, Berkshire, England

Wall tablet in Ascot Heath, Berkshire commemorating John Ligertwood Gordon Paterson d. 1905

Location

All Saints Church, Ascot Heath, Berkshire, England

Transcript

'IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF / JOHN LIGERTWOOD GORDON PATERSON / MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / WHO DIED ON THE 20th JANUARY 1905 / WHILST SERVING ON BOARD / H.M.S. 'BACCHANTE' / THIS BRASS IS ERECTED / AS A MARK OF ESTEEM / BY THE REAR ADMIRAL, CRUISER SQUADRON / MEDITERRANEAN FLEET / THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS OF / H.M.S. 'BACCHANTE'

Details

Description: Inscription in arch-headed panel within rope edge and border of oak branches on a niello ground. Above are two foul anchors and a naval crown.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Lady Chapel
Materials: Copper alloy
Vessel: HMS Bacchante

People

Paterson, John Ligertwood Gordon
Age: 18
Date of Death: 20/1/1905
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Not mounted on wall.
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)

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  "transcript": "'IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF / JOHN LIGERTWOOD GORDON PATERSON / MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / WHO DIED ON THE 20th JANUARY 1905 / WHILST SERVING ON BOARD / H.M.S. 'BACCHANTE' / THIS BRASS IS ERECTED / AS A MARK OF ESTEEM / BY THE REAR ADMIRAL, CRUISER SQUADRON / MEDITERRANEAN FLEET / THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS OF / H.M.S. 'BACCHANTE'",
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St Mary's Church, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England

Tablet in St Mary’s Church, Thirsk commemorating Frederick Roger Frankland RN d. 1844 and Harry Albert Frankland d. 1847

Location

St Mary's Church, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / FREDERICK ROGER FRANKLAND / MIDSHIPMAN H.M.S. WINCHESTER / WHO DIED OF FEVER AT SIERRE LEONE / 23RD JANUARY 1844, AGED 20 YEARS / THOMAS FRANKLAND/ LIEUTENANT 48TH MADRAS NATIVE INFANTRY / AND SECOND IN COMMAND 2ND PUNJAB REGIMENT / KILLED IN ACTION WITH THE SEPOY REBELS / LEADING AN ASSAULT AT THE RELIEF OF LUKNOW / 17TH NOVEMBER 1857, AGED 29 YEARS. / HARRY ALBERT FRANKLAND / MIDSHIPMAN H.M.S. ALARM / WHO DIED OF FEVER OFF VERA CRUZ / 9TH MAY 1847, AGED 17 YEARS / THE BELOVED SONS OF / SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANKLAND / VIII BARONET / LATE CAPTAIN 20TH REGIMENT / AND DAME KATHERINE MARGARET / HIS WIFE'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: North wall of aisle
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Alarm, HMS Winchester

People

Frankland, Frederick Roger
Age: 20
Date of Death: 23/1/1844
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Frankland, Harry Albert
Age: 17
Date of Death: 9/5/1847
Cause of Death: Infectious disease
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan, 1970, Alex Chatwin, 1982

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  "transcript": "'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / FREDERICK ROGER FRANKLAND / MIDSHIPMAN H.M.S. WINCHESTER / WHO DIED OF FEVER AT SIERRE LEONE / 23RD JANUARY 1844, AGED 20 YEARS / THOMAS FRANKLAND/ LIEUTENANT 48TH MADRAS NATIVE INFANTRY / AND SECOND IN COMMAND 2ND PUNJAB REGIMENT / KILLED IN ACTION WITH THE SEPOY REBELS / LEADING AN ASSAULT AT THE RELIEF OF LUKNOW / 17TH NOVEMBER 1857, AGED 29 YEARS. / HARRY ALBERT FRANKLAND / MIDSHIPMAN H.M.S. ALARM / WHO DIED OF FEVER OFF VERA CRUZ / 9TH MAY 1847, AGED 17 YEARS / THE BELOVED SONS OF / SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM FRANKLAND / VIII BARONET / LATE CAPTAIN 20TH REGIMENT / AND DAME KATHERINE MARGARET / HIS WIFE'",
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Protestant Cemetery, Florence, Italy, Rest of the World

Memorial in the Protestant Cemetery, Florence commemorating Commander James Stuart Brisbane RN d. 1833

Location

Protestant Cemetery, Florence, Italy, Rest of the World

Transcript

'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / JAMES STUART BRISBANE / COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY / DIED AT FLORENCE / 23 DEC 1833 / AGED 30'

Details

People

Brisbane, James Stuart
Age: 30
Date of Death: 23/12/1833
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, England

Memorial at St Nicholas’s Church, Deptford commemorating Master shipwright Fisher Harding

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Deptford, London, England

Transcript

'...sometime Master-shipwright of Her Majesty Queen Anne's Yard at Harwich'

Details

Position: North aisle north wall

People

Harding, Fisher
Age:
Date of Death: 18c
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master shipwright
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Damaged in Second World War.
Bibliography: J. Summerson 'Monuments in St Nicholas Deptford', 'Mariners Mirror' vol. 27 p. 285 (Cambridge,1941)

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  "content": "<p>Memorial at St Nicholas’s Church, Deptford commemorating Master shipwright Fisher Harding</p>",
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    "notes": "Damaged in Second World War.",
    "bibliography": "J. Summerson 'Monuments in St Nicholas Deptford', 'Mariners Mirror' vol. 27 p. 285 (Cambridge,1941)",
    "recorder": "",
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Thomas Dromgoole d. 1912

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'THOMAS JAMES DROMGOOLE / Stoker 1st class H.M.S. 'Tartar' / died / 1st Dec 1912 Aged 30'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 392
Vessel: HMS Tartar

People

Dromgoole, Thomas James
Age: 30
Date of Death: 1/12/1912
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Stoker 1st Class
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry, 1987

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  "transcript": "'THOMAS JAMES DROMGOOLE / Stoker 1st class H.M.S. 'Tartar' / died / 1st Dec 1912 Aged 30'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Thomas Dromgoole d. 1912</p>",
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    "vessel": "HMS Tartar"  },
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    "recorder": "R. & J.H. Perry, 1987",
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}

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Tynemouth Priory, Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England

Memorial at Tynemouth Priory commemorating Cuthbert Mills d. 1817

Location

Tynemouth Priory, Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England

Transcript

'In Memory of / Ann wife of / CUTHBERT MILLS / OF NORTH SHIELDS SHIPOWNER / who died 28 January 1800 / aged 77 years / CUTHBERT MILLS / Departed this life 7th of December 1817...'

Details

Description: Carved with urn.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Sandstone

People

Mills, Cuthbert
Age:
Date of Death: 7/12/1817
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Ship owner
Organisation:

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  "transcript": "'In Memory of / Ann wife of / CUTHBERT MILLS / OF NORTH SHIELDS SHIPOWNER / who died 28 January 1800 / aged 77 years / CUTHBERT MILLS / Departed this life 7th of December 1817...'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at Tynemouth Priory commemorating Cuthbert Mills d. 1817</p>",
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Cathedral, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Wall tablet in Gibraltar Cathedral commemorating William Undery d. 1939

Location

Cathedral, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Crossing the Bar' / IN MEMORY OF PILOT / WILLIAM. C. UNDERY / WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON / CHRISTMAS EVE 1939 / WHEN BOARDING A SHIP / IN THE BAY. 1877-1939 / Erected by his loving wife.'

Details

Description: Above inscription - the badge of Gibraltar and the red and white pilot flag.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Interior
Materials: Stone

People

Undery, William Charles
Age: 62
Date of Death: 1939
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Pilot
Organisation:

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  "transcript": "'Crossing the Bar' / IN MEMORY OF PILOT / WILLIAM. C. UNDERY / WHO LOST HIS LIFE ON / CHRISTMAS EVE 1939 / WHEN BOARDING A SHIP / IN THE BAY. 1877-1939 / Erected by his loving wife.'",
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England

Chest-tomb at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Minster in Thanet, Kent commemorating Commander William Wood RN, d.1849

Location

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Minster in Thanet, Kent, England

Transcript

'HERE LIETH THE REMAINS OF / COMMANDER WILLIAM WOOD RN / WHO DIED AT BRAMPTON / 28 AUGUST 1849 [illegible].' 'HERE LIETH THE REMAINS OF / SARAH, DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND SARAH / BROWNING OF THIS PARISH AND WIFE OF / LIEUTENANT WILLIAM WOOD ROYAL NAVY / SHE DIED SUDDENLY AT MARGATE 21 DECEMBER 1828 / AGED 19 YEARS / Watch and pray for ye know not when the time is / ALSO OF / ELIZABETH CHAPPELL DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE / AND WIFE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD CHAPPELL R.N. / BORN OCT.5TH 1802 DIED JANUARY 11 1842'

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Type: Chest-tomb
Position: Churchyard

People

Wood, William
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 28/8/1849
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Memorial at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating James Webb d. 1813

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'In front of this stone / are deposited the remains of / Mr James Webb / upwards of twenty years / one of the porters of the / Royal Hospital / who died 7th June 1813 aged 81 / and Susannah his wife who / died 14th March 1863 aged 65 / Also of Mrs Mary Stuart / sister of the above / Died 6th February 1814 aged 80 years'

Details

Position: East side

People

Webb, James
Age: 81
Date of Death: 7/6/1813
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Porter
Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich

Extra

Notes: PRO Greenwich Hospital Memorial Inscriptions 9618.

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St James's Church, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St James’s Church, Toxteth, Liverpool to Edward Grayson d. 1804 killed in a duel

Location

St James's Church, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Ed. Grayson of Liverpool Shipwright, whose zeal in the defence of insulted innocence caused him to fall a sacrifice to the laws of false honour whereby the injured are unhappily compelled to expose themselves to destruction at the call of the agressor: died 4th March 1804 age 46'

Details

People

Grayson, Edward
Age: 46
Date of Death: 4/3/1804
Cause of Death: Killed in a duel
Rank / Occupation: Shipbuildert
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 3, p.16. Killed in a duel with Lt. William Sparling 10th Dragoons.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters