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St Peter's Church, Colchester, Essex, England

Tablet at St Peter’s Church, Colchester, commemorating Third Officer Herbert Conrad Wire d. 1860

Location

St Peter's Church, Colchester, Essex, England

Transcript

'Herbert Conrad Wire, late 3rd officer, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship 'Cadiz' who was drowned during a gale of wind in the China Sea on the 27th July 1860 in the Gallant discharge of his duty aged 22 years. This tablet is erected by the passengers and officers of the ship at that time to commemorate his many noble qualities and record their grief for his loss'

Details

Vessel: SS Cadiz

People

Wire, Herbert Conrad
Age: 22
Date of Death: 27/7/1860
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: 3rd Officer
Organisation: P & O Line

Extra

Notes: 'Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea' Drowned Yellow Sea 26/7/60.
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1970

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    "recorder": "Reverend William Henry Donnan 1970",
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All Saints Church, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England

Memorial in Marlow, Buckinghamshire commemorating Vice-Admiral, Sir James Nicoll Morris d. 1830

Location

All Saints Church, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England

Transcript

'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / VICE ADMIRAL SIR JAMES NICOLL MORRIS K.C.B. / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HIS RESIDENCE THAMES BANK, GREAT MARLOW / THE 13TH APRIL 1830, AGED 66 YEARS. / HE WAS A SINCERE CHRISTIAN IN HIS BELIEF AND PRACTICE / BOTH BEING ALIKE DISTINGUISHED BY A SIMPLICITY AND SINGLENESS OF HEART / FOR WHICH HE WAS REMARKABLE / HIS BENEFICENCE WAS OF THAT SORT WHICH IS RATHER FELT THAN SEEN. / HE WAS A FIRM AND ZEALOUS FRIEND AND IN THE VARIOUS RELATIONS OF LIFE MOST EXEMPLARY / WHILST HIS STRICT SENSE OF HONOUR IN THE DISCHARGE OF HIS SEVERAL / DUTIES RENDERED HIM UNIVERSALLY / RESPECTED, ESTEEMED AND REGRETTED. / HE MARRIED IN 1802 MARGARETTA SARAH / DAUGHTER OF THOMAS SOMERS COCKS ESQR. / WHO ERECTS THIS TABLET TO RECORD HIS WORTH / AND HER SUBMISSIVE BUT UNFEIGNED GRIEF / AND NOW LORD WHAT IS MY HOPE : TRULY MY HOPE IS EVEN IN THEE. PSALM 38: V. 8.'

Details

Description: Sarcophagus-shaped, A relief of a cross on its side in the pediment.
Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble
Date Erected: 1830
Artists: John Ternouth
Vessel: HMS Colossus

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Morris, James
Age: 66
Date of Death: 13/4/1830
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Vice-Admiral Sir James Nicoll Morris, KCB 1763-1830.
Bibliography: Rupert Gunnis 'Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851' (London, 1964). J. K. Laughton, ‘Morris, Sir James Nicoll (1763?–1830)’, rev. Roger Morriss, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19306, accessed 31 May 2017]

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  "content": "<p>Memorial in Marlow, Buckinghamshire commemorating Vice-Admiral, Sir James Nicoll Morris d. 1830</p>",
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Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Memorial in Westoe Cemetery, South Shields commemorating Jefferson Mackey d. 1850

Location

Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Details

Vessel: Moseley

People

Mackey, Jefferson
Age: 37
Date of Death: 1850
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Lost his life on the brig 'Mosley' in the Atlantic.

JSON

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  "transcript": "",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in Westoe Cemetery, South Shields commemorating Jefferson Mackey d. 1850</p>",
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    "notes": "Lost his life on the brig 'Mosley' in the Atlantic.",
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South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India commemorating Robert Bunn, HEICS, d. 1869

Location

South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Robert Bunn / late Midshipman of the H.C.S. 'Mangles / and brother to her Commander aged 14 years.'

Details

Vessel: HCS Mangles

People

Bunn, Robert
Age: 14
Date of Death: 3/9/1869
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

Bibliography: 'The Bengal Obituary or a record to perpetuate the memory of departed worth' (Calcutta, 1848) p.150.

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Sacred to the memory of Robert Bunn / late Midshipman of the H.C.S. 'Mangles / and brother to her Commander aged 14 years.'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India commemorating Robert Bunn, HEICS, d. 1869</p>",
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Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands

Gravestone at Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey commemorating Philip Dolbel Le Vesconte d. 1854

Location

Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Philip Dolbel Le Vesconte, Master Mariner of this Port who departed this life on the 11th January 1854 in the 32 year of his age.'

Details

Type: Gravestone

People

Le Vesconte, Philip Dolbel
Age: 32
Date of Death: 11/1/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Record at Jersey archives.

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Sacred to the memory of Philip Dolbel Le Vesconte, Master Mariner of this Port who departed this life on the 11th January 1854 in the 32 year of his age.'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone at Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey commemorating Philip Dolbel Le Vesconte d. 1854</p>",
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    "notes": "Record at Jersey archives.",
    "bibliography": "",
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Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Memorial at Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania commemorating Andrew Buchanan, RN, d. 1890

Location

Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Andrew Buchanan A.B. / H.M.S. Boadicea / died 7th January 1890'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: HMS Boadicea

People

Buchanan, Andrew
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 7/1/1890
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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  "location": "Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "'Andrew Buchanan A.B. / H.M.S. Boadicea / died 7th January 1890'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania commemorating Andrew Buchanan, RN, d. 1890</p>",
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Lance Corporal Samuel Tuffin RMLI d. 1905

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'SAMUEL TUFFIN / Lce Corp'l R.M.L.I. HMS 'Boscawen' / died / 6th April 1905 aged 26'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 354
Vessel: HMS Boscawen

People

Tuffin, Samuel
Age: 26
Date of Death: 6/4/1905
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lance Corporal RMLI
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987

JSON

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  "transcript": "'SAMUEL TUFFIN / Lce Corp'l R.M.L.I. HMS 'Boscawen' / died / 6th April 1905 aged 26'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Lance Corporal Samuel Tuffin RMLI d. 1905</p>",
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    "vessel": "HMS Boscawen"  },
  "event": {
    "event":"",
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    "recorder": "R. & J.H. Perry 1987",
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Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England

Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis commemorating Richard Lea RN d. 1828

Location

Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Richard Lea RN and Tide Surveyor to HM Customs at Liverpool, died 13 November 1828, age 35'

Details

People

Lea, Richard
Age: 35
Date of Death: 13/11/1828
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Tide surveyor
Organisation: HM Coastguard, Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: From an MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 801. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Richard Lea RN and Tide Surveyor to HM Customs at Liverpool, died 13 November 1828, age 35'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis commemorating Richard Lea RN d. 1828</p>",
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    "recorder": "Captain J. P. Brand",
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Joseph Timmins d. 1861

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Capt. Joseph Timmins drowned in Bombay 23rd July 1861 age 37'

Details

People

Timmins, Joseph
Age: 37
Date of Death: 23/7/1861
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1868, vol. 7, p. 71.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Capt. Joseph Timmins drowned in Bombay 23rd July 1861 age 37'",
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Henry Edward Richardson d. 1909

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'HY. EDWD. RICHARDSON / officer's stew'd 2nd cl. H.M.S. 'New Zealand' / died / 4 Apr 1909 aged 31'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 221
Vessel: HMS New Zealand

People

Richardson, Henry Edward
Age: 31
Date of Death: 4/4/1909
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Officer's steward 2nd class
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987

JSON

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  "transcript": "'HY. EDWD. RICHARDSON / officer's stew'd 2nd cl. H.M.S. 'New Zealand' / died / 4 Apr 1909 aged 31'",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Henry Edward Richardson d. 1909</p>",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters