Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating William J. Leat RN d. 1897
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'IN / LOVING MEMORY / OF / OUR LATE SHIPMATE, / WILLIAM J. LEAT A.B. / WHO DIED AT HONG KONG / 12TH JULY 1897, AGED 22 YEARS / GOD OF THE LIVING IN WHOSE EYES / UNVEILED THY WHOLE CREATION LIES / ALL SOULS ARE THINE, WE MUST NOT SAY / THAT THOSE ARE DEAR WHO PASS AWAY'
Details
Description: Cross on stepped plinth. Type: Cross
People
Leat, William J. Age: 22 Date of Death: 12/7/1897 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Monument in Ledbury, Herefordshire commemorating Samuel Skynner d. 1725
Location
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
Transcript
'Here lyes the body of / CAPTAIN SAMUEL SKYNNER, / who was no mean proficient / in Maritime affairs, having been conversant therein / near forty years. / He left to this Parish Six pounds / a year for ever / to be divided as follows. / One pound to the Vicar for ye time being / for a sermon upon Candlemas day / And the other Five in the same day / to twenty poor Housekeepers / not receiving alms. / He departed this life ye 23rd of July 1725 / Aged 73 years. / Also / The Body of ANNE the Wife of / CAPTAIN SAMUEL SKYNNER / who died the 10th of February 1724 / Aged 71 Years.''
Details
Description: Bust flanked by naval trophies above inscription tablet, an obelisk with a achievement of arms behind. Inscription flanked by scrolling foliage.
Type: Monument Materials: Marble Artists: Thomas White of Worcester
People
Skynner, Samuel Age: 73 Date of Death: 23/7/1725 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
Extra
Notes: Signed SB on a compass. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969
Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata, India commemorating Joseph Burridge, HEIC, d. 1832
Location
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World
Transcript
'Also sacred to the Memory of / Joseph Burridge, Master in the H.B.C. Marine / who departed this life on the 27th June 1832 / on board the H. C. Vessel 'Experimental' / on his return from Ghazeepore, aged 38 years.'
Details
Vessel: Experimental
People
Burridge, Joseph Age: 38 Date of Death: 27/6/1832 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Extra
Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.165.
Wall tablet in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry, Kent commemorating Commander Thomas Boteler, RN d. 1829 off West Africa
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry, Kent, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS BOTELER ESQ. COMMANDER R.N. / FIFTH SON OF THE LATE W. BOTELER, OF EASTRY ESQ / WHO HAVING LOST THE GREATER PART OF HIS OFFICERS AND MEN / IN H.M.S. HECLA WHILE ON A SURVEY OF THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA / FELL HIMSELF A VICTIM TO THAT PESTILENTIAL CLIMATE. AMIDST DIFFICULTIES WHICH EVEN TO THE LAST, / HIS HIGH SENSE OF DUTY HELD HIM TO RESIST / WITH UNSHAKEN CONSTANCY, FORTITUDE, / AND PERSEVERANCE. / HE DIED OFF THE OLD CALABAR RIVER 28TH NOV. 1829 AGED 32'
Details
Description: On a black marble stele with shallow rectangular feet is a white marble trapezoid with rounded brackets ridged round the edges. An incised frame borders the inscription. A plain cornice supports a shallow pediment with foliated wings at each side and a central coat of arms. The lettering is black filled roman caps. The name of the sculptor is under the base of the tablet. Blazon: (Argent) three escutcheons Sable each charged with a covered cup (Or). Type: Wall tablet Position: North aisle Materials: Black and white marble Artists: Thomas Longley Vessel: HMS ‘Hecla'
People
Boteler, Thomas Age: 32 Date of Death: 28/11/1829 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in the Old English Cemetery, Livorno commemorating Lieutenant James Moodie RN d. 1813
Location
Old English Cemetery, Via Giuseppe Verdi, Livorno, Italy, Rest of the World
Transcript
'S.M. / Iacobi Moodie / ex Orcadibus Scotiae insulis legati in classe Regia Britannica / Iuvenis eximiae spei / qui selectus / ut exponeret in terram copias Britannicas / ad Liburnam dominatione Gallica liberandum / inter fidos sodales / auxilium ferre eheu frustra conantes / irato mari submerses / XXVIII aet anno / idibus Decembris MDCCCXIII / immature morte correptus est / Hoc monumentum / officii causa / praefetus [sic] nec non legati aliique / navis Britanicae America / non sine lachrymis / posuere' [S.M. Jacob Moody from the Orkney Isles in Scotland, Lieutenant in the British Royal Navy, a promising young man chosen from amongst loyal comrades to disembark the British troops to free Livorno from French rule. Alas! Help was impossible, all efforts were defeated by the stormy sea, he was snatched prematurely by death on 15 December 1813 aged 28. On account of his exemplary conduct the Commander and lieutenants of the British ship 'America', not without tears, erected this monument.]
Details
Vessel: America
Event
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Moodie, James Age: 28 Date of Death: 15/12/1813 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Translation Silvia Bozzato. Bibliography: G.G. Milner-Gibson Cullum; Francis Campbell MaCauley 'The inscriptions in the old British cemetery of Leghorn' (Leghorn, 1906) p.73.
Gravestone at Queen’s Road Cemetery, Walthamstow, London commemorating Henry F. Mills RN d. 1926
Location
Queen's Road Cemetery, Walthamstow, London, England
Transcript
'In Loving Memory of / Henry F. Mills / Killed on board H.M.S. Hermes / 22 April 1926 / Aged 22 years / Buried Royal Naval Cemetery / Calcarra Malta / Also his mother / Emma Mills...'
Details
Type: Gravestone Vessel: HMS Hermes
People
Mills, Henry F. Age: Date of Death: 22/4/1926 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating officers and men of HMS ‘Rattler’ who died during the commission of 1851-1856
Location
St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'IN REMEMBRANCE / OF THIRTY-SIX OF THEIR GALLANT SHIPMATES / WHO BETWEEN THE YEARS 1851 AND 1856 / DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / BY CAPTAIN MELLERSH OF H.M.S. RATTLER / HIS OFFICERS AND SHIP'S COMPANY / OF THESE / TWENTY-FIVE FELL UNDER THE BANEFUL / EFFECTS OF THE CLIMATE OF BURMAH AND CHINA / FIVE WERE DROWNED / SIX WERE KILLED IN ACTION WITH PIRATES / ON THE COAST OF CHINA'
