Category Archives: Vessel Loss

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Throwley, Kent, England

Memorial tablet in Church of St Michael and All Angels, Throwley, Kent commemorating Captain Henry Cobb, HEIC d. 1848

Location

Church of St Michael and All Angels, Throwley, Kent, England

Transcript

'This tablet / is erected as a memorial of Capt. HENRY COBB / born at Town Place, February 25th 1788 / died September 14th 1848 / he commanded / the Honble East India Company's ship ‘Kent’ / which was burnt in the Bay of Biscay / March 1st 1825 / which to his firmness and judgement / the preservation of a very large proportion of / those on board was greatly attributed'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: South aisle west of south door
Materials: White marble with black surround
Vessel: HEIC Kent

People

Cobb, Henry
Age: 60
Date of Death: 14/9/1848
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Master HEIC
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

Notes: Cobb arms - Argent, a chevron between three farmyard cocks gules surmounted by Cobb crest: out of a ducal coronet or, a demi leopard rampant proper. Motto, Virtus in Arduis.

JSON

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  "transcript": "'This tablet / is erected as a memorial of Capt. HENRY COBB / born at Town Place, February 25th 1788 / died September 14th 1848 / he commanded / the Honble East India Company's ship ‘Kent’ / which was burnt in the Bay of Biscay / March 1st 1825 / which to his firmness and judgement / the preservation of a very large proportion of / those on board was greatly attributed'",
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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Stafford, Staffordshire, England

Plaque in St Mary’s Church, Stafford commemorating the officers and men of HM Submarine ‘Perseus’ lost in 1941

Location

St Mary's Church, Stafford, Staffordshire, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS / AND RATINGS OF / H.M. SUBMARINE / PERSEUS / ADOPTED BY THE CITIZENS OF / THE BOROUGH OF STAFFORD / DURING WARSHIP WEEK / NOVEMBER 1941 / LOST IN ACTION OFF / THE GREEK ISLAND OF / CEPHALONIA / 6TH DECEMBER 1941 / "RESURGAM"

Details

Description: Carved with the ship's badge.
Type: Plaque
Materials: Slate
Vessel: HMS Perseus

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

Extra

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  "transcript": "'IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS / AND RATINGS OF / H.M. SUBMARINE / PERSEUS / ADOPTED BY THE CITIZENS OF / THE BOROUGH OF STAFFORD / DURING WARSHIP WEEK / NOVEMBER 1941 / LOST IN ACTION OFF / THE GREEK ISLAND OF / CEPHALONIA / 6TH DECEMBER 1941 / \"RESURGAM\"",
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Fishing, Vessel Loss

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Memorial tile in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, commemorating Fred Plummer d. 1891

Location

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Transcript

‘FREDK. S. PLUMMER / aged 20 / Lost from the Smack / ‘Gemini / 'off Dover / 11 November 1891'

Details

Type: Memorial tile
Materials: Ceramic
Vessel: Gemini

People

Plummer, Frederick S.
Age: 20
Date of Death: 11/11/1891
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Fisherman
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

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

Photographer: P Lacey

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England

Memorial window in Westminster Abbey, London dedicated to those lost aboard HMS ‘Captain’, foundered 1870 off Cape Finisterre

Location

Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England

Transcript

[Beneath window] 'In Memory of the Officers Men and Boys drowned off Cape Finisterre in HMS Captain Sept 7, 1870.'
[Plaque on floor] 'The stained window above / commemorates the foundering / of HMS Captain on Sept. 7 1870 / when Captain Hugh Burgoyne, V.C. / Captain Cowper Coles. C.B. / with 49 officers / and 402 men and boys / perished off Cape Finisterre / in the service of their country. / The names are recorded on brasses in St Paul's Cathedral.'

Details

Description: In the cinquefoil at the top - The Sea giving up her dead. Left hand from the top - Building the Ark; The passage through the Red Sea; The Fleet of Solomon; Building the ship of Tyre; The deliverance of Jonah. Right hand from the top - Christ stilling the tempest; Christ walking on the sea; Christ teaching from the ship; the miraculous draught of fishes; The Shipwreck of St Paul.
Type: Stained glass window
Position: North transept, west aisle
Date Erected: 1871
Artists: JR Clayton & Alfred Bell
Vessel: HMS 'Captain'

Extra

Bibliography: www.hmscaptain.co.uk. 'The Builder' 1872, p.434; Arthur Hawkey 'Black Night off Finisterre: the tragic tale of a British Ironclad' (Shrewsbury, 1999) p.170-171

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Vessel Loss

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

Window in St Keverne, Cornwall dedicated to those lost aboard the SS ‘Mohegan’ in 1898

Location

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

Transcript

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY / OF THE 106 PERSONS WHO PERISHED IN / THE WRECK OF THE S.S. "MOHEGAN" ON THE / MANACLE ROCKS, OCTOBER 14TH 1898, THIS / WINDOW WAS ERECTED BY THE ATLANTIC / TRANSPORT COMPY, OWNERS OF THE VESSEL'

Details

Description: Three vertical panels depicting (left to right) St Keverne, Christ, and St Christopher. The lower panels show the storm on the sea of Galilee, Christ walking on the water, and the shipwreck of St Paul. The inscription is recorded in the glass at the base of the three panels.

Type: Window
Vessel: SS Mohegan

Extra

Notes: There is also a memorial celtic-style cross in the churchyard inscribed simply 'Mohegan' that was erected over the communal grave of many of the unnamed victims.

JSON

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  "transcript": "'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY / OF THE 106 PERSONS WHO PERISHED IN / THE WRECK OF THE S.S. \"MOHEGAN\" ON THE / MANACLE ROCKS, OCTOBER 14TH 1898, THIS / WINDOW WAS ERECTED BY THE ATLANTIC / TRANSPORT COMPY, OWNERS OF THE VESSEL'",
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Vessel Loss

Brompton Cemetery, London, England

Gravestone at Brompton Cemetery, London commemorating Captain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne VC, RN d. 1870 in the loss of HMS ‘Captain’

Location

Brompton Cemetery, London, England

Transcript

'IN / MEMORY OF / FIELD MARSHALL / SIR JOHN FOX BURGOYNE / DIED 7TH OCTOBER 1871 / COMMANDER OF THE TOWER OF LONDON / AND OF HIS CHILDREN / HUGH TALBOT BURGOYNE R.N., V.C. / LOST AT SEA / 7 SEPTEMBER 1870 / ANNE MARIA GRETTON / DIED AT HAYTY / 23 JUNE 1852 / AND HER SON HUGH J.D. GRETTON / DIED AT BOULOGNE SUR MER / 7TH SEPTEMBER 1889 AGED 37.'

Details

Type: Coped stone, cross
Vessel: HMS Captain

People

Burgoyne, Hugh Talbot
Age:
Date of Death: 7/9/1870
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: David Harvey 'Monuments to Courage: Victoria Cross Headstones and Memorials' (1999)

JSON

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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Broadwater, West Sussex, England

Wall tablet at St Mary’s Church, Broadwater, West Sussex commemorating the officers and men of HMS ‘Broadwater’ lost in 1941

Location

St Mary's Church, Broadwater, West Sussex, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / THE FOUR OFFICERS AND FORTY MEN OF / H.M.S. BROADWATER / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN SHE WAS / TORPEDOED AND SUNK / IN THE WESTERN APPROACHES/ON 18TH OCTOBER 1941 / LIEUTENANT JOHN STANLEY PARKER. RNVR / OF BOSTON, MASS, USA. / ONE OF THE OFFICERS, WAS ALSO / ONE OF THE FIRST / OF HIS COUNTRYMEN / TO BECOME A SEA OFFICER / IN THE ROYAL NAVY'

Details

Description: Circular white marble tablet on black slate. A naval crown above the inscription.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: West wall of chancel
Materials: Marble, slate
Date Erected: 1998
Artists: Stuart Earl
Vessel: HMS Broadwater

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

People

Parker, John Stanley
Age:
Date of Death: 18/10/1941
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RNVR
Organisation: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Extra

Recorder: Ronald Edward White 2003
Photographer: Ronald Edward White 2003

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Trinity Road Cemetery, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England

Gravestone at Trinity Road Cemetery, Cleethorpes commemorating James Golder Robinson d. 1883 in the loss of the SS ‘Woodburn’

Location

Trinity Road Cemetery, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of James Golder Robinson 2nd Engineer of the ill fated SS 'Woodburn' drowned during the collision with the SS 'St. Germain' 45 miles off Plymouth 26 Aug 1883 age 24 years'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: SS Woodburn

People

Baxter, James Golder Robinson
Age: 24
Date of Death: 26/8/1883
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: 2nd Engineer
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: On Baxter family stone.
Recorder: C. Flintham

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Vessel Loss

St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Stokenham, Devon, England

Memorial in St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Stokenham, Devon commemorating Frederick Pound RN, 1914

Location

St Michael’s and All Angels Church, Stokenham, Devon, England

Transcript

'Frederick Wm Pound, killed in action H.M.S. AMPHION 6 August 1914 aged 16'

Details

Vessel: HMS Amphion

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Pound, Frederick William
Age: 16
Date of Death: 6/8/1914
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Amphion' struck a mine on 6 August 1914 off the Thames Estuary.
Recorder: P. Cove; E.R. Stage 1982

JSON

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Vessel Loss

SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Wall tablet in SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham commemorating Charles Thomas Nicolay who perished in the sinking of the ‘Killarney’ in 1838

Location

SS Philip and James Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'Erected / by Mary, widow of the late / Lieut. General Sir William Nicolay, K., C.B., K.C.H. / to the memory of their beloved and only children / William Frederick Scott born June 11th 1813 / died at Dominica in the West Indies Sept. 7th 1826 / Edmund George, born March 8th 1815 / late Captain in the 29th Regiment of Foot / died at Mhow in the East Indies, June 25th 1844. / Charles Thomas born January 13th 1817 / late a Lieutenant in the 99th Regimant of Foot, / perished in the wreck of the Killarney steamer / during his passage from Cork to Bristol [January 20th 1838]'.

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Interior
Materials: Marble
Vessel: 'Killarney'

People

Nicolay, Charles Thomas
Age: 21
Date of Death: 20/1/1838
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Paddle steamer 'Killarney' wrecked in bad weather at Rennies Bay, County Cork 20 January 1838.

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Erected / by Mary, widow of the late / Lieut. General Sir William Nicolay, K., C.B., K.C.H. / to the memory of their beloved and only children / William Frederick Scott born June 11th 1813 / died at Dominica in the West Indies Sept. 7th 1826 / Edmund George, born March 8th 1815 / late Captain in the 29th Regiment of Foot / died at Mhow in the East Indies, June 25th 1844. / Charles Thomas born January 13th 1817 / late a Lieutenant in the 99th Regimant of Foot, / perished in the wreck of the Killarney steamer / during his passage from Cork to Bristol [January 20th 1838]'.",
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    "notes": "Paddle steamer 'Killarney' wrecked in bad weather at Rennies Bay, County Cork 20 January 1838.",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters