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Church of St Decumanus, Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Gravestone at the Church of St Decumanus, Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire commemorating Edward Skinner RN d. 1792

Location

Church of St Decumanus, Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Transcript

'This stone is erected in memory of Edward Skinner Esqr who whilst serving as midshipman on board H.M.S. Iphigenia met with an untimely end near this spot in the year 1792'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Iphigenia

People

Skinner, Edward
Age: 17
Date of Death: 22/5/1792
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Died after a fall from the cross-trees. 'Iphigenia' was moored in Milford Haven renewing her rigging prior to Skinner's death. ADM 51/476.
Recorder: David Saunders 1991

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Parish church, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

Memorial at Aberystwyth commemorating Evan Thomas d. 1852

Location

Parish church, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

Transcript

'Evan Thomas of this town, Mariner died 23 May 1852 aged 25'

Details

People

Thomas, Evan
Age:
Date of Death: 23/5/1852
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1974

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Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Captain Sir Henry Duncan RN d. 1835

Location

Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Transcript

'TO CAPTAIN HON. SIR HENRY DUNCAN. R.N. CB. K.C.B. / YOUNGEST SON OF ADM: VISC: DUNCAN K.B. / B. 27 APL 1786 D. 1. NOV. 1835 / SOMETIME PRIN. STOREKEEPER OF THE ORDNANCE / AN OFFICER OF DISTINGUISHED MERIT AND PROFESSIONAL ZEAL / A BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF DOMESTICK VIRTUE / AN AFFECTIONATE FRIEND AND COMRADE / A PIOUS AND SINCERE CHRISTIAN.'[BASE]'ERECTED BY HIS NUMEROUS FRIENDS / AND BY HIS LATE ASSOCIATES IN THE ORDNANCE 1836.'

Details

Description: Sarcophagus on a stepped base with a cavetto cornice.. Cannon, shot, a union flag and sword on the top.
Type: Tomb
Position: 533/90/RS
Materials: Granite

People

Duncan, Henry
Age: 49
Date of Death: 01/11/1835
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Grade II listed.
Photographer: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh ©RMG

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  "transcript": "'TO CAPTAIN HON. SIR HENRY DUNCAN. R.N. CB. K.C.B. / YOUNGEST SON OF ADM: VISC: DUNCAN K.B. / B. 27 APL 1786 D. 1. NOV. 1835 / SOMETIME PRIN. STOREKEEPER OF THE ORDNANCE / AN OFFICER OF DISTINGUISHED MERIT AND PROFESSIONAL ZEAL / A BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF DOMESTICK VIRTUE / AN AFFECTIONATE FRIEND AND COMRADE / A PIOUS AND SINCERE CHRISTIAN.'[BASE]'ERECTED BY HIS NUMEROUS FRIENDS / AND BY HIS LATE ASSOCIATES IN THE ORDNANCE 1836.'",
  "content": "<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M5721Large.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7469\" width=\"330\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M5721Large.jpg 500w, https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M5721Large-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" /></figure>\n\n\n<p>Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating Captain Sir Henry Duncan RN d. 1835</p>",
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Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England

Memorial at Highgate Cemetery, London commemorating Captain John Sykes RN d. 1865

Location

Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory of / John Sykes, Captain in the Royal Navy / Husband of Charlotte Sophia Sykes. / Died 23rd October, 1865, aged 90 years'

Details

People

Sykes, John
Age: 90
Date of Death: 23/10/1865
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Frederick Teague Cansick 'Epitaphs of Middlesex' (London, 1869) vol ii, p. 166.

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  "transcript": "'Sacred to the Memory of / John Sykes, Captain in the Royal Navy / Husband of Charlotte Sophia Sykes. / Died 23rd October, 1865, aged 90 years'",
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Robert Burchell d. 1907

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'ROBERT BURCHELL / O S H.M.S. 'Ocean' / died / 29 August 1907 Aged 18'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (Old) 381
Vessel: HMS Ocean

People

Burchell, Robert
Age: 18
Date of Death: 29/8/1907
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: R & J H Perry, 1987

JSON

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  "transcript": "'ROBERT BURCHELL / O S H.M.S. 'Ocean' / died / 29 August 1907 Aged 18'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Robert Burchell d. 1907</p>",
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    "recorder": "R & J H Perry, 1987",
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Foulon Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Gravestone at Foulon Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey commemorating Captain Nicholas Langlois d. 1919

Location

Foulon Cemetery, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE / WHO DIED 7 AUGUST 1919 / AGED 70 YEARS. THEN ARE THEY GLAD BECAUSE THEY BE QUIET / SO HE BRINGETH THEM UNTO THEIR DESIRED HAVEN / PSALM 107.30 / ALSO OF JUDITH LE POIDEVIN / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED 30 APRIL 1925 / TRUSTING IN THE LORD / ALSO OF / WALTER NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / WHO DIED 30 APRIL 1925 / SON OF THE ABOVE / AND BELOVED HUSBAND OF / MARGUERITE BROUARD / HE DIED 8TH NOVEMBER 1955 / IN HIS 81ST YEAR / HEAVENS MORNING BREAKS AND EARTHS / VAIN SHADOWS FLEE. ALSO OF / MARGUERITE BROUARD / WIDOW OF / WALTER NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / WHO DIED 13 JUNE 1973 / IN HER 81ST YEAR'

Details

Description: Ornamental head containing a carving of a ship.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Upper part of cemetery; south west of chapel

People

Langlois, Nicholas
Age: 70
Date of Death: 7/8/1919
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: J. Le Pelley 1981

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  "transcript": "'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE / WHO DIED 7 AUGUST 1919 / AGED 70 YEARS. THEN ARE THEY GLAD BECAUSE THEY BE QUIET / SO HE BRINGETH THEM UNTO THEIR DESIRED HAVEN / PSALM 107.30 / ALSO OF JUDITH LE POIDEVIN / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED 30 APRIL 1925 / TRUSTING IN THE LORD / ALSO OF / WALTER NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / WHO DIED 30 APRIL 1925 / SON OF THE ABOVE / AND BELOVED HUSBAND OF / MARGUERITE BROUARD / HE DIED 8TH NOVEMBER 1955 / IN HIS 81ST YEAR / HEAVENS MORNING BREAKS AND EARTHS / VAIN SHADOWS FLEE. ALSO OF / MARGUERITE BROUARD / WIDOW OF / WALTER NICHOLAS LANGLOIS / WHO DIED 13 JUNE 1973 / IN HER 81ST YEAR'",
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    "event":"",
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Hospital Burial Ground, Haslar, Hampshire, England

Memorial in the Naval Hospital Burial Ground, Haslar, Hampshire commemorating Lieutenant Frank Lambert RN d. 1853

Location

Hospital Burial Ground, Haslar, Hampshire, England

Transcript

'Frank Henry Lambert Lieut R.N. H.M.S. Edinburgh / Drowned from a boat / July 1853 aged 25 years'

Details

Vessel: HMS Edinburgh

People

Lambert, Frank Henry
Age: 25
Date of Death: 7/1853
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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  "transcript": "'Frank Henry Lambert Lieut R.N. H.M.S. Edinburgh / Drowned from a boat / July 1853 aged 25 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in the Naval Hospital Burial Ground, Haslar, Hampshire commemorating Lieutenant Frank Lambert RN d. 1853</p>",
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating John McHugh d. 1908

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'JOHN McHUGH / Stoker 1st Cl. H.M.S. 'Mermaid' / died / 27 July 1908 Aged 19'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Roman Catholic (old) 492
Vessel: HMS Mermaid

People

McHugh, John
Age: 19
Date of Death: 27/7/1908
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Stoker 1st Class
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987

JSON

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  "transcript": "'JOHN McHUGH / Stoker 1st Cl. H.M.S. 'Mermaid' / died / 27 July 1908 Aged 19'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating John McHugh d. 1908</p>",
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St Nicholas's Church, Wrangle, Lincolnshire, England

Memorial window at St Nicholas’s Church, Wrangle commemorating Thomas Waite d. 1914

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Wrangle, Lincolnshire, England

Transcript

'Thomas Waite, late Captain in the mercantile marine and for many years a landowner resident in this parish. Erected by his widow and relations May 1914'

Details

Type: Window
Position: Chancel to right of altar

People

Waite, Thomas
Age:
Date of Death: circa 1914
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1969

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Thomas Waite, late Captain in the mercantile marine and for many years a landowner resident in this parish. Erected by his widow and relations May 1914'",
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Parish church, Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Memorial at Caerlaverock Parish Church commemorating William Hunter RN d. 1811

Location

Parish church, Caerlaverock, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Transcript

'In memory of George Hunter, who died at Glencaple Quay, April the 29th 1831, aged 75 years. Mary Davidson, spouse to George Hunter, joiner in Blackshaw, who died 11 Dec 1818, aged 65 years. Also of Mary Hunter, their daughter, who died 15th July 1796, aged 4 years. Also of William Hunter, their son, who fell in battle on board the Alceste, frigate, off Lissa, 29th Nov 1811, age 26 years. Also of John Hunter, aged 26, and David Hunter aged 19, years, their sons who were lost near Derry on the coast of Ireland, 28th January 1819. Also James Hunter, their son, who died 12th Jan 1864, aged 84 years. Also Mary McKinnnell, his wife, who died 24th March 1864, aged 74 years'

Details

Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Alceste

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Hunter, William
Age: 26
Date of Death: 29/11/1811
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

JSON

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  "transcript": "'In memory of George Hunter, who died at Glencaple Quay, April the 29th 1831, aged 75 years. Mary Davidson, spouse to George Hunter, joiner in Blackshaw, who died 11 Dec 1818, aged 65 years. Also of Mary Hunter, their daughter, who died 15th July 1796, aged 4 years. Also of William Hunter, their son, who fell in battle on board the Alceste, frigate, off Lissa, 29th Nov 1811, age 26 years. Also of John Hunter, aged 26, and David Hunter aged 19, years, their sons who were lost near Derry on the coast of Ireland, 28th January 1819. Also James Hunter, their son, who died 12th Jan 1864, aged 84 years. Also Mary McKinnnell, his wife, who died 24th March 1864, aged 74 years'",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters