Category Archives: Vessel Loss

St Akeveranus's Church, St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Gravestone in St Keverne, Cornwall dedicated to William Hislop d. 1890

Location

St Akeveranus's Church, St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Transcript

'Erected by Maggie Crawford of Glasgow in loving memory of his husband Wm. Hislop Engineer who was drowned by the wreck of the steamship PYRIDION VAGLIANO on the Manacle Rocks Feby 8th 1890 aged 31 years'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: Pyridion Vagliano

People

Hislop, William
Age: 31
Date of Death: 8/2/1890
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Engineer
Organisation:

Extra

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Headstone in Candie Cemetery, Guernsey commemorating William Mahy Loveridge d. 1897 in the wreck of the ‘Rose’

Location

Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'...also in loving memory of William Mahy Loveridge grandson of the above who was lost in the wreck of the Rose of Devon off Port Reath Cornwall, November the 29th 1897 aged 25 years'

Details

Type: Headstone
Materials: Marble
Vessel: Rose of Devon

People

Loveridge, William Mahy
Age: 25
Date of Death: 29/11/1897
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Date wrong.
Bibliography: David Kreckeler 'Nineteenth Century Monumental Memorials in Guernsey and their history of nautical interest' (typescript).

JSON

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  "location": "Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey, Channel Islands",
  "transcript": "'...also in loving memory of William Mahy Loveridge grandson of the above who was lost in the wreck of the Rose of Devon off Port Reath Cornwall, November the 29th 1897 aged 25 years'",
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Vessel Loss

Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Wall tablet in Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey commemorating Lieutenant Commander Donald Priaulx McGregor RN d. 1918

Location

Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / DONALD PRIAULX MACGREGOR / LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY / KNIGHT OF THE GRECIAN ROYAL ORDER OF / THE REDEEMER / THREE TIMES MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES / SON OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER DONALD / MACGREGOR 92 HIGHLANDERS AND MAY ISABEL / PRIAULX HIS WIFE / BORN JUNE II. 1887 KILLED IN / ACTON AT KUSU BAY I. OF IMBRIOS / JAN 20. 1918 WHEN IN COMMAND / OF H.M. MONITOR 28 / HIS SHIP BEING ON FIRE HE GAVE THE ORDER TO ABANDON HER / REMAINING HIMSELF TO FIRE A LAST SHOT AT S.M.S. BRESLAU / Joyous You lived and leapt / Into The gaping dark, where sleep / Our Fathers all, to find / Old Honour jest Of fools / Yet still the soul of all delight'

Details

Description: Carved with a naval sword and RN badge.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: West wall facing font
Materials: Alabaster

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Macgregor, Donald Priaulx
Age: 30
Date of Death: 20/1/1918
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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  "location": "Town Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands",
  "transcript": "'IN MEMORY OF / DONALD PRIAULX MACGREGOR / LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROYAL NAVY / KNIGHT OF THE GRECIAN ROYAL ORDER OF / THE REDEEMER / THREE TIMES MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES / SON OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALEXANDER DONALD / MACGREGOR 92 HIGHLANDERS AND MAY ISABEL / PRIAULX HIS WIFE / BORN JUNE II. 1887 KILLED IN / ACTON AT KUSU BAY I. OF IMBRIOS / JAN 20. 1918 WHEN IN COMMAND / OF H.M. MONITOR 28 / HIS SHIP BEING ON FIRE HE GAVE THE ORDER TO ABANDON HER / REMAINING HIMSELF TO FIRE A LAST SHOT AT S.M.S. BRESLAU / Joyous You lived and leapt / Into The gaping dark, where sleep / Our Fathers all, to find / Old Honour jest Of fools / Yet still the soul of all delight'",
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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Dover, Kent, England

Memorial window in St Mary’s Church, Dover, Kent dedicated to the passengers and crew of the MS ‘Herald of Free Enterprise’ who died on 6th March 1987

Location

St Mary's Church, Dover, Kent, England

Transcript

'PEACE / BE STILL', 'IN . MEMORY . OF / ALL . THOSE . WHO / DIED . IN . THE / HERALD . OF . FREE / ENTERPRISE / ON . THE . NIGHT . OF /FRIDAY . 6TH . MARCH . 1987 / OFF . THE . PORT . OF . ZEEBRUGGE / I . AM . THE . / RESURRECTION / AND . THE . / LIFE'

Details

Description: Two light window. A depiction of Christ stilling the storm occupies the top part of both windows. A broadside view of the vessel in the livery of 'TOWNSEND THORESEN' is placed above the inscription in the left hand light, at the base is a mourning figure and a man, woman and child. In the lower part of the right hand window are representative members of the emergency services.
Type: Window
Position: Nave
Materials: Glass
Date Erected: 1988
Artists: Frederick Walter Cole
Vessel: MS Herald of Free Enterprise

Extra

Notes: The 193 passenger and crew casualties are listed in a book of remembrance
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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    "type": "Window",
    "position": "Nave",
    "materials": "Glass",
    "dateErected": "1988",
    "artists": "Frederick Walter Cole",
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Vessel Loss

St Peter's Church, Sark, Channel Islands

Wall tablet in St Peter’s Church, Sark commemorating Pierre Le Pelley, Seigneur of Sark d. 1839 drowned in the loss of a boat taking him to Guernsey

Location

St Peter's Church, Sark, Channel Islands

Transcript

'A Memoire / de Pierre Le Pelley Ecuyer / Seigneur de Serk / Noye pres de la Pointe du Nez / dans une tempete / Le Ier Mars 1839 Age de 40 ans / Son Corps n'a pas ete retrouve mais la mer rendra ses morts. / Sa Piete Profonde et Sincere, Le Bien qu'il a fait dans l'Ile / et ailleurs, et son Integrite et son Amour de la Justice, / comme Magistrat, et comme Seigneur, le font regretter vivement / de sa Famille, de ses tenants et de ses Amis. / Le monument a ete erige par Ernest La Pelley, Ecuyer, Seigneur / de Serk, en temoignage l'affection pour un Frer cheri.' [Translation] 'To the memory of Pierre Le Pelley Esquire, Seigneur of Sark, drowned near the Pointe de Nez in a storm on March 1st 1839, Aged 40 years. His body has not been found but the sea will give up its dead. His deep piety and sincerity, the good which he did in the island and elsewhere, and his integrity and his love of justice, as a magistrate and as Seigneur, make his family vividly to regret him as do his tenants and his friends. This monument has been erected by Ernest Le Pelley Esquire, Seigneur of Sark, to testify his affection for a much loved brother'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Above pulpit

People

Le Pelley, Pierre
Age: 40
Date of Death: 1/3/1839
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Seigneur of Sark.

JSON

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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Memorial in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk commemorating those lost with the troopship ‘Birkenhead’ wrecked 1852.

Location

St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England

Transcript

‘TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF 55 MEN DROWNED IN THE WRECK OF H,M,S, ‘BIRKENHEAD’ ON THE 26TH OF FEBRUARY 1852.
T. ARCHER, J. ARMSTRONG, J. BARRETT, T. BELLINGHAM, W. BOSWELL, G. BRADLEY, J. BYRNE, M. CARRINGTON, M. CELLARS, B. CUMMINS, M. CLINCE, J. CRAGG, J. COSTELLO, W. DEMMACK, J. DURKIN, J. ENGLAND, J. FIELD, T. FITZGERARD, P. FLANAGAN, T. FLANLEY, O. FREEMAN, W. FLYNN, A. GRIMSHAW, F. HART, S. HAYWARD, S. JOHNSON, T. KETCHER, J. KELLY, L. LAMBETH, E. LEE, M. LAWLER, J. MCDERMOTT, J. MCDONNEL, T. MCMURROW, J. MATRAVIS, A. MEALLY, J. MULLANY, T. MORAN, R, MORRISON, R. MUNNS, D. O’CONNOR, J. OWEN, W. PALMER, J. PETTIFER, T. PURCELL, C. REYNOLDS, J. ROCHE, R. SHEPPARD, W. SMITH, W. SPRIGGS, J. THOMPSON, W.TIGNE, T. WALES, W. WILSON, J. WOOTON. ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT N.C.O.’S AND MEN OF (12TH) THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT’

Details

Description: A gothic architectural surround in marble with a relief of the sinking vessel above, 'A DEATHLESS STORY' above the inscription. Regimental badge below.
Type: Wall monument
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Birkenhead

Extra

Notes: To men of Suffolk Regiment lost on troopship 'Birkenhead' wrecked 26/2/1852.
Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 32.

JSON

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Vessel Loss

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Memorial tile in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, commemorating Walter Hughes d. 1883

Location

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Transcript

'WALTER HUGHES / aged 18 / lost in the Smack / ‘Recruit' / in the North Sea / March 6 1883'

Details

Type: Memorial tile
Vessel: Recruit

People

Hughes, Walter
Age: 18
Date of Death: 6/3/1883
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Bibliography: Alfred L. Wakeling and Peter Moon 'Tiles of Tragedy' (Brightlingsea, 2001)

Photographer: P Lacey

JSON

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Fishing, Vessel Loss

Grimsby Central Hall, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England

Plaque at Grimsby Central Hall commemorating William Marshall d. 1941 in the loss of the trawler ‘Hopton’

Location

Grimsby Central Hall, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England

Transcript

'WILLIAM MARSHALL / BORN 15TH APRIL 1913 / BELOVED HUSBAND OF LILLIA / AND FATHER OF PAMELA. / LOST AT SEA ON THE / TRAWLER "HOPTON" / JUNE 8TH 1941'

Details

Type: Plaque
Position: Fisherman's and Seaman's Memorial Chapel
Materials: Brass
Vessel: Hopton

People

Marshall, William
Age: 28
Date of Death: 8/6/1941
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Trawlerman
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: 'Hopton' LT317 lost off Iceland presumed mined 8 June 1941.

JSON

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Vessel Loss

St Nicholas Church, New Romney, Kent, England

Memorial window in St Nicholas Church, New Romney, Kent dedicated to the 291 crew and passengers of the ‘Northfleet’ who died 22nd January 1873

Location

St Nicholas Church, New Romney, Kent, England

Transcript

[At base of window] 'THE DEAD SHALL HEAR THE VOICE OF THE SON / OF GOD AND THEY SHALL LIVE / IN MEMORY OF THE CREW AND / PASSENGERS OF THE SHIP NORTHFLEET / WHICH FOUNDERED OFF THIS / COAST 22ND JANUARY 1873'

Details

Description: Two main lights and five tracery lights. In the cental tracery light, Christ in majesty. In the upper part of the main light four angels worship Him. Below four more angels lean downwards blowing trumpets. The lower part of the window illustrates the text 'and the sea shall give up he dead.' Against a blue starry sky with shipping in the background, two angels receive two family groups of three people who are rising from the waves.
Type: Window
Position: South Aisle
Materials: Glass
Artists: Clayton & Bell
Vessel: Northfleet

Extra

Notes: The ship 'Northfleet’ bound for Hobart, Tasmania, was sunk in collision with the Spanish steamer 'Murillo' while at anchor off Dungeness. 291 people drowned, 85 were saved. Casualties were buried at New Romney, St Margaret's-at Cliff and Worth.
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)

JSON

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  "details": {
    "description": "Two main lights and five tracery lights. In the cental tracery light, Christ in majesty. In the upper part of the main light four angels worship Him. Below four more angels lean downwards blowing trumpets. The lower part of the window illustrates the text 'and the sea shall give up he dead.' Against a blue starry sky with shipping in the background, two angels receive two family groups of three people who are rising from the waves.",
    "type": "Window",
    "position": "South Aisle",
    "materials": "Glass",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "Clayton & Bell",
    "vessel": "Northfleet"  },
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "The ship 'Northfleet’ bound for Hobart, Tasmania, was sunk in collision with the Spanish steamer 'Murillo' while at anchor off Dungeness. 291 people drowned, 85 were saved. Casualties were buried at New Romney, St Margaret's-at Cliff and Worth.",
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    "recorder": "The Arts Society (NADFAS)",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Church of St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Church of St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, Liverpool commemorating Norman Harrison d. 1912 in the loss of RMS ‘Titanic’

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Church of St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England

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'On loving memory of SWAINSTON HARRISON JNR. who died at IBI, Central Africa, 16 March 1892, aged 24 years. Also of Norman Harrison, Second Engineer SS TITANIC, foundered of the coast of Newfoundland, April 15th, 1912 aged 38 years. 'Faithfull unto death' Also ELIZA HARRISON, mother of the above who fell asleep 1st March 1917, aged 74 years. Also SWAINSTON HARRISON who died 4th July 1919, aged 87 years'

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Type: Headstone
Position: North east of church
Vessel: RMS Titanic

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Harrison, Norman
Age: 38
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: 2nd Engineer
Organisation:

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Recorder: Martin Davies 1984

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters