Wall tablet at York Minster commemorating Lieutenant Theophilus Garencieres RN d. 1797
Location
York Minster, York, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'THIS MONUMENT an affectionate Heart-felt tribute to parental tenderness / was erected by Sarah Garencieres and her Sister / Elizabeth Sampson to perpetuate the Memory of / their beloved Parents. / THEOPHILUS DAVYE GARENCIERES ESQr / late ALDERMAN of this CITY, who served the Office / of LORD MAYOR in the Year 1796 and departed this / Life March 13 1803 in the 61st Year of his Age; / and PRUDENCE ELIZABETH GARENCIERES / his Wife, who died Sepr.29th 1801 Aged 59. / Their Younger Son Iohn Wade GARENCIERES / died May 16th 1787 Aged 13. / Their Elder Son THEOPHILUS GARENCIERES / a Lieutenant on board His Majesty`s Ship the Queen / died at St Domingo, of the Yellow Fever, on the 10th of / Jany. 1797 in his 31st Year, and was buried there with / Military honors.'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: interior Materials: White marble Vessel: HMS 'Queen'
People
Garencieres, Theophilus Age: 31 Date of Death: 10/1/1797 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall plaque at St Mary’s Church, Portsmouth commemorating the officers and men of HMS ‘Collingwood’ who died during the commission of 1893-1896
Location
St Mary's Church, St Mary's Road, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'In Memory of the Officers and Men / of H.M.S. 'COLLINGWOOD' / Who died during her second Commission / at Malta. / Staff Surgeon J.A. Collot, 11 Feb. 1894, aged 44 years, / J. Norton, Stoker. 22 Feb 1893 aged 23, C. Morrison, Ord. 18 July 1895, aged 43, / R. Nicholas, B.1.C. 23 Feb 1893, aged 17, C. Paddon Pte. R.M. 19 July 1895, aged 26, / B. Yates Pte. R.M. 4 Nov 1893, aged 29, Ernest L.Bell. A.B. 4 Aug 1895, aged 27, / Saml. Woolley, A.B. 8 July 1894, aged 25, Stpn. J. Smith, Ord. 9 Aug. 1895, aged 19, / J. Whyte, Cdr. R.M.A. 18 July 1895, aged 37, George Carter, Ord. 1 Octr. 1895 aged 19 / At Boudroum, / H. Hobson, Cr. R.M.A. 6 July 1895, aged 25, C.W. Godfrey, Ord. 13 July 1895, aged 19. / At Salonica / J.H. Trueman, Painter 1.C. 12 Jan 1896, aged 31 years. / Erected by the Officers and Ships Company / 1893 MEDITERRANEAN STATION 1896'
Details
Description: With a black enamelled? border, the capitals picked out in red. Type: Wall plaque Materials: Copper Vessel: HMS Collingwood
People
Bell, Ernest L. Age: 27 Date of Death: 4/8/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Carter, George Age: 19 Date of Death: 1/10/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Collot, J. A. Age: 44 Date of Death: 11/2/1894 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy Godfrey, C. W. Age: 19 Date of Death: 13/7/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Hobson, H. Age: 25 Date of Death: 6/7/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Morrison, C. Age: 43 Date of Death: 18/7/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman RN Organisation: Royal Navy Nicholas, R. Age: 17 Date of Death: 23/2/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Boy 1st Class RN Organisation: Royal Navy Norton, J. Age: 23 Date of Death: 22/2/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Stoker Organisation: Royal Navy Paddon, C. Age: 26 Date of Death: 19/7/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines Smith, Stephen J. Age: 19 Date of Death: 9/8/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Ordinary Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Trueman, J. H. Age: 31 Date of Death: 12/1/1896 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Painter 1st Class Organisation: Royal Navy Whyte, J. Age: 37 Date of Death: 18/7/1895 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RMA Organisation: Royal Marine Artillery Woolley, Samuel Age: 25 Date of Death: 8/7/1894 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Yates, B. Age: 29 Date of Death: 4/11/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Private RM Organisation: Royal Marines
Memorial in Msida Bastion Cemetery, Malta commemorating crew members of HMS ‘Castor’, killed in action, St Jean d’Acre 1840
Location
Msida Bastion Cemetery, Malta, Rest of the World
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / JOHN O'BRIAN, FREDERICK WEAVER, WILLIAM SMITH AND THOMAS SILNECK, / SEAMEN / WHO WERE KILLED ON BOARD H.M.S. CASTOR / COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN EDWARD COLLIER / AT THE CAPTURE OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE / BY THE ALLIES ON THE 3RD NOVEMBER 1840. / THIS MEMORIAL / IS ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF REGRET BY THEIR SHIPMATES. / FOR THEY GOT NOT THE LAND IN POSSESSION THROUGH THEIR / OWN SWORD NEITHER WAS IT THEIR OWN ARM THAT HELPED / THEM. Ps. 44:3’
Details
Type: Wall memorial. Vessel: HMS Castor
Event
St Jean D'Acre
Event Date
1840
Event Category
19th century conflicts in Asia
People
O'Brian, John Age: Date of Death: 3/11/1840 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Silneck, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 3/11/1840 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy Weaver, Frederick Age: Date of Death: 3/11/1840 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris commemorating Admiral Sir Sidney Smith d. 1840
Location
Père Lachaise, Paris, France, Rest of the World
Transcript
[On the side panels] 'ON SIR SIDNEY SMITH / Here rests the hero who undaunted stood, / When Acre's streets were red with Turkish blood; / In warlike France where great Napoleon rose, / The man who check'd his conquests finds repose. / Britain who claims his triumphs as her own, / Has raised for him her monumental stone; / This tomb, which marks his grave, is now supplied / by friends with whom he lived, midst whom he died; / A tribute to his memory - Here beneath / Lies the bold heart of England's Sidney Smith', 'ON LADY SIDNEY SMITH / Beloved by all to whom her worth was known,/ the pride of those who claimed her for their own / her cherished life too soon attained its close / And here her mortal relics find repose, / But in the minds of those who yet survive, Shall the remembrance of her virtues live; / And hearts that mourn for all they most held dear, / Cling to the only solace left them here, / That in that world where faith may hope for bliss, / Her spirit dwells in endless happiness' [upper compartment, on the right of the bust] 'SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, G.C.B., / Admiral of the Red / Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, / Grand Cross of several foreign Orders &c., / Born 21 July 1764 / Died 26 May, 1840' [upper compartment, on the left of the bust] 'CAROLINE MARY/Wife of/Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, / Born 10th May, 1760, / Died 16 May, 1826'
Details
Description: Sarcophagus, a pediment above with acroteria. There is a circular relief portrait of Smith on the side panel. The memorial was restored by the 1805 Club in 1999. The missing roundel portrait by Jacques-Louis David was discovered inside the tomb and reinstated.
Type: Tomb Position: Sector III 43e division. Avenue des Anglais Materials: White marble Vessel: HMS Tigre
Event Category
1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Smith, William Sidney Age: Date of Death: 26/5/1840 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Admiral Smith served with distinction throughout the French and Napoleonic Wars. He was a pioneer in new methods of naval warfare and one of the great heroes of the age. Bibliography: 'Dictionary of National Biography'; 'Observer' colour magazine. 6/3/1983; John Barrow 'Life and Correspondance of Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith' (London, 1848), pp. 492-495 (engraving); Michel Dansel 'Au Pere Lachaise' (1973) p. 115. 'Newsletter of the 1805 Club,' March 2007, p. 10; Thomas Pocock 'A Thirst for Glory: The Life of Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.' Photographer: Pieter van der Merwe
Wall tablet at St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating Henry Davy RN d. 1852
Location
St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England
Transcript
'In memory of / HENRY DAVY, RN. 2ND MASTER ATTENDANT / OF PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD / WHO DIED OCTOBER 21ST, 1852; AGED 49 YEARS'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: North side nave
People
Davy, Henry Age: 49 Date of Death: 21/10/1852 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: 2nd Master Attendant Portsmouth Dockyard Organisation: HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Memorial in St Cuthbert’s Burial Ground, Edinburgh commemorating Commander Nisbet Glen RN d. 1824 and Alexander Glen RN d. 1842
Location
St Cuthbert's Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transcript
'This stone was erected by the surviving members of the family in affectionate remembrance of Nisbet Glen, Commander Royal Navy (fourth son of the Reverend Alexander Glen of Dirleton East Lothian) who was born in 1780 and died in 1824; of his spouse Agnes Cunningham, second daughter of William Cunningham jeweller in Edinburgh, who was born in 1782, and died in 1855, and of their children. Alexander Glen, Mate Royal Navy who was born in 1817 and died at Malta in 1842 and is there interred...'
Details
People
Glen, Nisbet Age: Date of Death: 1824 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy Glen, Alexander Age: Date of Death: 1842 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Mate RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, London commemorating Admiral George Brydges Rodney d. 1792
Location
St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Transcript
'ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE / TO THE MEMORY OF / GEORGE BRYDGES RODNEY, K.B. / LORD RODNEY VICE ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND, / AS A TESTIMONY OF THE GALLANT AND IMPORTANT SERVICES / WHICH HE RENDERED TO HIS COUNTRY / IN MANY MEMORABLE ENGAGEMENTS / AND SPECIALLY IN THAT OF 12 APRIL 1782 / WHEN A BRILLIANT AND DECISIVE VICTORY WAS OBTAINED/OVER THE FRENCH FLEET / AND EFFECTUAL PROTECTION WAS AFFORDED / TO THE WEST INDIAN ISLANDS, / AND TO THE COMMERCIAL INTERESTS OF THIS KINGDOM, / IN THE VERY CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN WAR. / LORD RODNEY WAS BORN IN 1718 / DIED 24 MAY 1792'
Details
Description: Full-length figure of Rodney in uniform leaning on a rudder, three flags behind, he is flanked by female figures representing History and Victory. Type: Memorial Position: Crypt Materials: Marble Date Erected: 1811 Artists: John Charles Felix Rossi
Event Category
1775-1783 American Revolutionary War
People
Rodney, George Brydges Age: 74 Date of Death: 24/5/1792 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Date of contract Aug 1811, value £6, 300. Bibliography: Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London 1964). Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
