Memorial sarcophagus at the Protestant Cemetery, Northam Road, Penang, Malaysia commemorating John Baird, HEIC d.1800
Location
Protestant Cemetery, Northam Road, Penang, Malaysia, Rest of the World
Transcript
[Not exact] ‘SACRED / To The Memory / of / John Baird, RN / Son Of / John Baird, Master Attendant And / Midshipman on / The 'Wellesley' East Indiaman who arrived at this island on 27 August 1800 and died 6th September following, / Aged 17 Years and 6 Months'
Details
Vessel: HEIC Wellesley
People
Baird, John Age: 17 Date of Death: 6/9/1801 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Midshipman HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Extra
Bibliography: John B. Hattendorf 'Some British and American Sailor's Tombstones in Penang, Malaysia', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 68, p.325, (Greenwich, 1982).
Memorial in Western Cemetery, Perth Road, Dundee commemorating James Chapman d. 1876, a veteran of Trafalgar
Location
Western Cemetery, Perth Road, Dundee, Scotland
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / JAMES CHAPMAN / SHIPMASTER, DUNDEE / WHO DIED 12TH NOVEMBER 1876 / AGED 92 YEARS / ALSO HIS WIFE / MARGARET CRAIGIE / WHO DIED 13TH APRIL 1877 / AGED 80 YEARS / AND THEIR DAUGHTER / ANN CHAPMAN / WIFE OF JOHN EARL ROBERTSON / WHO DIED 15TH APRIL 1908 / AGED 77 YEARS / THE ABOVE /J OHN EARL ROBERTSON / DIED 11TH JANUARY 1919 / AGED 86 YEARS'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Section XI 16B Vessel: HMS Victory
Event
Battle of Trafalgar
Event Date
1805
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Chapman, James Age: 92 Date of Death: 12/11/1876 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: In HMS 'Victory' at Trafalgar 21/10/1805. Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) pp. 47-9.
Memorial at St James’s Church, Great Saling, Essex, commemorating Captain William Hugh Dobbie RN d. 1830
Location
St James's Church, Great Saling, Essex, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of Capt. William Hugh Dobbie, RN, born Nov. 3rd 1771, died June 10th 1830, leaving seven sons and daughters by whom this tablet has been erected'
Details
People
Dobbie, William Hugh Age: Date of Death: 10/6/1830 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at Balliggan Graveyard, Balliggan, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating Lieutenant William Hearle, RN d. 1841
Location
Balliggan Graveyard, Balliggan, County Down, Northern Ireland
Transcript
'To the memory of William Hearle Lieut RN and Chief Officer of Coastguard at Ballyhalbert. Died June 25 1841. Aged 41 years'
Details
People
Hearle, William Maitland Age: 41 Date of Death: 25/6/1841 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: HM Coastguard, Royal Navy
Wall tablet in St Paul’s Cathedral, London commemorating Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Frederick Richards d. 1912
Location
St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Transcript
'ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET / SIR / FREDERICK W. RICHARDS / G.C.B.-D.C.L. / FIRST SEA LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY 1893-99 / VIGILANT AND RESOLUTE WITH SINGLENESS / OF HEART AND PURPOSE DEVOTED HIS LIFE / TO THE NAVY AND THE EMPIRE. / 1833-1912'
Details
Description: Oval portrait in relief within architectural surround, coat of arms above. Type: Wall tablet Position: Crypt Materials: Marble Artists: Frederick William Pomeroy
People
Richards, Frederick William Age: 78 Date of Death: 1912 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating the officers seamen and marines of HMS ‘Immortalite’ who died in 1876
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'In MEMORY of / The / OFFICERS / SEAMEN & MARINES / of / H.M.S. IMMORTALITE / who departed this life / on the China Station between the dates / March 3rd. and October 10th. 1876. / This Monument was erected by / their Ship-mates / Seamen / J. LOCK Capt. Mz-top / Killed by a fall from aloft / on 3rd. April 1876 / Buried at Sea / Aged 27 / H. BROWN Capt. Mn-top / Killed by a fall from aloft / on 6th. April 1876 / Buried at Sea / Aged 30 / G. SMITH Ordy. / who fell overboard and was drowned / at Woosung 23rd. May 1876 / Aged 19 / J. HOWARD Ordy./who fell overboard from aloft/and was drowned at sea 18th. June 1876 / Aged 19 / D. CHEESEMAN A.B. / who died of dysentery 6th. Sept. 1876 / and was buried at Chefoo / Aged 33 / MARINES / C. WILLIAMS Gr. R.M.A. / who died of small pox / 4th. March 1876 / Buried at sea / Aged 40 / JESSE REW Pte. R.M.L.I. / who died of fever 2nd. August 1876 / Buried at Sea / Aged 33 / GEO. ROBERTS Pte. R.M.L.I. / who died of dysentery / 29th. September 1876 / Buried at Chefoo / Aged 31 / OFFICERS / JOHN SNELL Esq. / Chief Engineer / who died at Sea off the entrance / of the river Yang-Tse-Kiang 10th. Oct.1876 / Age 53 years / his remains were interred at Shanghai / Mr. JOHN SANDERS / Gunner R.N. / who died at Ta-Lien-Whan Bay / North China / on the 25th. August 1876 / Aged 38 Years / his remains were interred at Chefoo'
Details
Description: Cross on plinth with sloping sides. Type: Cross Vessel: HMS Immortalite
People
Brown, H. Age: 30 Date of Death: 6/4/1876 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Captain of the Maintop Organisation: Royal Navy Cheeseman, D. Age: 33 Date of Death: 18/9/1876 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Howard, J. Age: 19 Date of Death: 18/6/1876 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Lock, J. Age: 27 Date of Death: 3/4/1876 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Captain of the Mizentop Organisation: Royal Navy Rew, Jesse Age: 33 Date of Death: 2/8/1876 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Gunner RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Roberts, George Age: 31 Date of Death: 29/9/1876 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Private RMLI Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry Sanders, John Age: 38 Date of Death: 25/8/1876 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Gunner Organisation: Royal Navy Smith, G. Age: 19 Date of Death: 23/5/1876 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Snell, John Age: 53 Date of Death: 10/10/1876 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private RMLI Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry Williams, C. Age: 40 Date of Death: 4/3/1876 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Gunner RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery
Monument in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shadoxhurst, Kent commemorating Captain Sir Charles Molloy RN d. 1760
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shadoxhurst, Kent, England
Transcript
'Sir Charles Molloy Esqr. Lord of this Manor / Late Captain of his Majesty's ship Royal Caroline. / Sometime a Director of Greenwich Hospital / An Elder Brother of the Trinity House; and one of / His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Kent &c. / After a long and faithful service of some sixty years in / the Royal Navy; where he served very young with King William's Letter, in the latter part, of his War with France, and served in that and all Queen Anne's war, he gradually rose / and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant after the hard fought battle of Malaga in the / Mediterranean with the French fleet in the year 1704 (being then in the Royal Oak) who had / a large share in that days action / in which post he continued all the year 1710 when he was/ by the Earl of Berkeley (who then commanded the Fleet) appointed captain of his Majesty's yacht the William & Mary in which and afterwards in the Mary yacht he served until the fourth / day of April 1742 when his Majesty George II / by his express council was pleased to appoint / him post Captain in the Royal Caroline and afterwards on a voyage royal of his to Holland / on the twenty seventh day of April 1743 / his Majesty being on board at Gravesend / and the / Royal Standard hoisted, he was pleased as a further mark of his royal favour to order him the honour / of Knighthood, in all of which employs, he ever discharged his Duty, as became an officer and a Seaman. / He was twice married, his first wife was ANNE relict of ISAAC ELTON Esq, son of Sir ABRHAM ELTON Bart / of the City of Bristol; he afterwards married ELLEN eldest daughter of JOHN COOKE Esq of Swifts / near CRANBROOK in the County of Kent, he left no issue and departed this life August the 24th 1760 / aetatis suae 76', 'Ens entium miserere mihi', 'Ellen Molloy who departed this life the 17 of October 1763 aged 54 / years'
Details
Description: Pyramidal, above the inscription a cherub holds a full face portrait flanked by a globe, compass and naval trophies. The upper part consists of cherubs heads in clouds incribed: 'Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.
Type: Monument Materials: Marble Artists: Henry Cheere
Event Category
1672-1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War
People
Molloy, Charles Age: 76 Date of Death: 24/8/1760 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Bibliography: K.A. Esdaile 'English Church Monuments' (London, 1946); Matthew Craske 'The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A history of monumantal sculpture and commemorative art in England 1720-1770' (Yale, 2008). Philip Parsons 'Monuments and painted glass of upwards of one hundred churches.' (Canterbury, 1794) pp.423-4.
Wall tablet in St James’s Church, Sydney, Australia commemorating Commodore Sir James Brisbane RN d. 1826
Location
St James's Church, Sydney, Australia, Rest of the World
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / COMMODORE SIR JAMES BRISBANE Kt C.B.E. K.W. / WHO CLOSED WITH HIS LIFE AN HONOURABLE CAREER OF ACTIVE AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICES. / WHILST COMMANDING H.M. SQUADRON IN INDIA, HE CONDUCTED IN PERSON, / THE NAVAL FORCE EMPLOYED IN THE DIFFICULT AND HARASSING WAR, / WHICH ENDED WITH THE SUBMISSION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE, / SUBSEQUENT TO ITS TERMINATION, HE SAILED FOR SOUTH AMERICA, IN COMMAND OF H.M. SHIP WARSPITE, / BUT BEING GREATLY IMPAIRED IN HEALTH BY THAT ARDUOUS SERVICE, / LANDED AT SYDNEY, AND AFTER PROTRACTED SUFFERING, / DIED ON THE 19TH. OF DECEMBER 1826 AGED 52 YEARS'
Details
Description: Draped sarcophagus with relief portrait of the deceased; tongue and dart moulding above and acanthus-leaf moulding below relief. Sextant at base of sarcophagus on the left; pediment with relief wreath encircling the inscription 'BRISBANE'; a naval sword and hat on top of pediment. Type: Wall monument Materials: Marble Artists: Francis Legatt Chantrey
Event
First Anglo-Burmese War
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
Brisbane, James Age: 52 Date of Death: 19/12/1826 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Commodore RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Died of dysentery contracted in Burma. 'Recd an order from Lady Brisbane to execute a monument with a profile in memory of Sir James Brisbane March 1829 1829. Augt 6. To executing the monument as per order £210-0-0. Men's wages, packing loading &c £2-15-0. Cartage to St Katherine's Dock £1-0-0. Strong case and copper fastenings £6-10-0. Bagster & Buckle shipping 5-7-6 £225-12-6 paid Octr 16th 1830.' Bibliography: Alison Yarrington, Ilene D. Lieberman, Alex Potts and Malcolm Baker 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey R.A...', 'The Fifty Sixth Volume of the Walpole Society' p. 229 (1991-1992); 'Historical Records of Australia' vol. xiv p. 225.
