Category Archives: Vessel Loss

St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

Plaque at St Wulfram’s Church, Grantham commemorating Cyril Clarke d. 1918 in the loss of the SS ‘Polo’

Location

St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England

Transcript

'In proud and loving memory of our only son Cadet Cyril Clarke SS Polo who was drowned in the English Channel through his ship being torpedoed on 12th February 1918, aged 17 years. Duty impelled him, he took the cross and made the sacrifice. Until the day breaks. He was for 8 years a choir boy at this church.'

Details

Description: Black line round the inscription with a red cross top centre.
Type: Plaque
Position: Interior
Materials: Brass
Vessel: SS Polo

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Clarke, Cyril
Age: 17
Date of Death: 12/2/1918
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Merchant service cadet
Organisation:

Extra

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Vessel Loss

Cemetery, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England

Memorial erected in memory of Ellen Grace Hammond in Macclesfield, Cheshire d. 1878

Location

Cemetery, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF ELLEN GRACE HAMMOND WHO WAS LOST IN THE WRECK OF THE CHILDWALL HALL OFF CAPE ST VINCENT PORTUGAL, APRIL 11TH 1878 AGED 25 YRS. SHE WAS FOR FIVE YEARS A STUDENT IN THE NATIONAL ART TRAINING SCHOOL, SOUTH KENSINGTON AND THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED TO HER MEMORY BY HER TEACHERS, FELLOW STUDENTS AND OTHER FRIENDS' 'IN MEMORIAM / HENRY / ERASMUS HAMMOND / OBIT. MARCH VI, MDCCCI / AETAT LXI

Details

Description: Decorated with scenes, patterns and sea shells.
Type: Celtic cross
Position: Gravestone No.3931 plot D
Materials: Bronze plaques on terracotta cross
Vessel: Childwall Hall

People

Hammond, Ellen Grace
Age: 25
Date of Death: 11/4/1878
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: Joan Grindrod 1997 (Macclesfield Ferrets)

JSON

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Vessel Loss

St Mary’s Church, Appledore, Devon, England

Memorial in St Mary’s Church, Appledore, Devon commemorating Thomas Harris d. 1916

Location

St Mary’s Church, Appledore, Devon, England

Transcript

'TO THE / SACRED MEMORY OF / MY DEAR HUSBAND AND TWO SONS / WHO WERE LOST AT SEA ON / THE SCHOONER ‘P. T. HARRIS' / DURING THE GREAT WAR JUNE 1916 / THOMAS HARRIS / MASTER MARINER / AGED 41 YEARS / THOMAS LEONARD HARRIS / AGED 16 YEARS / WILLIAM FORD HARRIS / AGED 14 YEARS / WE CANNOT BEND BESIDE THEIR GRAVE / FOR THEY SLEEP IN THE SECRET SEA, / AND NOT ONE GENTLE WHISPERING WAVE / WILL TELL THE PLACE TO ME / BUT THOUGH UNSEEN BY HUMAN EYE / THOUGH MORTALS KNOW IT NOT / THEIR FATHER KNOWETH WHERE THEY LIE / AND ANGELS GUARD THEIR SPOT / ...'

Details

Description: Carved with lilies and a relief of a topsail schooner.
Type: Gravestone
Materials: Marble
Vessel: P T Harris

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Harris, Thomas
Age: 41
Date of Death: 6/1916
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation: Unknown
Harris, Thomas Leonard
Age: 16
Date of Death: 6/1916
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation: Unknown
Harris, William
Age: 14
Date of Death: 6/1916
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER. Inscriptions to wife two daughters and a son in addition

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Vessel Loss

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Memorial formerly at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating Captain Thomas Dickinson RN d. 1854

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of / Captain Thomas Dickinson R.N. / He was actively employed in the service of his country / during the late war from 1796 to 1815 / was engaged at the reductions of the Islands / of St Lucia and Trinidad / at Trafalgar / at San Sebastian and capture / of the French Frigate 'La Trave' / and was twice severely wounded / He was afterwards more peacefully though not less zealously / employed on the coast of South America / where his talents, ingenuity and perseverance / in raising the treasure sunk in / H.M.S. 'Thetis' / triumphed over the greatest difficulties / He was subsequently one of the Captains of the Royal Hospital Greenwich / and departed this life in the humble hope of a better / Through our Lord Jesus Christ 30th July 1854 aged 68'

Details

Position: Mausoleum (interior, east wall)
Vessel: HMS Thetis

Event

Battle of Trafalgar

Event Date

1805

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Dickinson, Thomas
Age: 68
Date of Death: 30/7/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Hospital, Greenwich, Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Destroyed in 1939-45 war. Greenwich Hospital Memorial Inscriptions PRO 99618.

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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Dolgellau, Gwynedd commemorating Lieutenant Trevor Whitaker RN d. 1915 in the loss of submarine ‘E10’

Location

St Mary's Church, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

Transcript

'Trevor Whitaker, Lieut RN, Lost with submarine E10 off Heligoland 18 January 1915 aged 23 years'

Details

Vessel: E10

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Whitaker, Trevor
Age: 23
Date of Death: 18/1/1915
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: 'E10' lost with all hand, believed to have struck a mine.
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1973

JSON

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    "recorder": "Reverend William Henry Donnan 1973",
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Fishing, Vessel Loss

St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Memorial in St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk commemorating Robert Sterry d.1807 and Robert Sterry d.1806

Location

St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of ROBERT STERRY fish mercht / who unfortunately drowned with all his crew / May 29th 1807 aged 40 years / in his religious duties he was steady and attentive/in his worldly occupations regular and honest / and in his domestic kind and indulgent / Also to the memory of ROBT STERRY eldest son of the above, aged 10 years, who was unfortunately lost / by the boat upsetting the year before / Reader! Be mindful of the uncertainty of human / life from the untimely end of those unfortunate / persons and immediately examine into thine own state. The afflicted widow and mother of the above / erected this tablet as a tribute of her sincerest / affection'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble

People

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Extra

Bibliography: Hugh D.W. Lees 'Chronicles of a Suffolk Parish Church: Lowestoft St Margaret' (Lowestoft, 1949).
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Victoria Park, Portsmouth, England

Memorial in Victoria Park, Portsmouth to the officers and men who died during the loss of HMS ‘Victoria’ 1893

Location

Victoria Park, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON BOARD H.M.S. "VICTORIA" / JUNE 22ND 1893 / ERECTED BY THE SURVIVORS' [on marble plaque below] 'THIS MONUMENT / WAS REMOVED FROM / TOWN HALL SQUARE / AT THE REQUEST OF THE SURVIVORS / ON THE 10TH APRIL 1903'

Details

Description: List of casualties on two bronze panels.
Type: Obelisk
Materials: Stone, bronze
Vessel: HMS Victoria

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Victoria' sank after collision with HMS 'Camperdown'.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery commemorating Albert Edward Higgins d. 1912 in the loss of the ‘Denbigh Castle’

Location

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of Eliza, the beloved wife of Joseph Charles Higgins who died 19th March 1914, aged 68 years. Also ALBERT EDWARD, Captain of the ship 'DENBIGH CASTLE', which was lost with all hands in the English Channel, Christmas 1912, in his 34th. Year'

Details

Type: Headstone
Position: A690
Vessel: Denbigh Castle

People

Higgins, Albert Edward
Age: 33
Date of Death: 1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Messrs. Robert Thomas and Co

Extra

Notes: Foundered on a voyage from Lobos D'Aguera, Peru to Antwerp with a cargo of guano.

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Vessel Loss

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery commemorating Frederick H.P. McCombe d. 1915 in the loss of SS ‘Falaba’

Location

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of FREDERICK H.P. McCOMBE who was lost at sea through the sinking of S.S. 'FALABA', March 28th. 1915, aged 21 years'

Details

Type: Headstone
Position: 3531
Vessel: SS Falaba

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

McCombe, Frederick H. P.
Age: 21
Date of Death: 28/3/1915
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Elder Dempster

Extra

Notes: Sunk by U-28.

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Vessel Loss

St Margaret's Church, Rochester, Kent, England

Wall tablet in St Margaret’s Church, Rochester, Kent commemorating Captain Francis Percy RN d. 1741

Location

St Margaret's Church, Rochester, Kent, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory of / Captain FRANCIS PERCY /(a descendant of that most Noble and / Ancient family of ALNWICK CASTLE / NORTHUMBERLAND) who served 47 Years / in the Royal Navy. / In the Years 1700 he was blown up in the CARLISLE / And was providentially one of the seven that were saved / out of 200 Men. / In 1704 He was dangerously wounded in the / engagement between the English and French Fleets in the Mediterranean /In 1707 He was cast away on the Rocks of SCILLY / with Sir CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL & miraculously preserved. / He was at the burning of the French and Spanish Fleets / at Vigo: He was at the Taking of GIBRALTAR where He / boarded and Burnt a 28 Gun Ship. He was likewise at the / Sieges of COPENHAGEN, MATA-GUARDA Fort, BARCELONA; / OSTEND & TOULON; in all which Actions He acquitted himself with Bravery and Honour. / Worn out in the Service of his Country & long afflicted / with the Gout and Stone He now resteth in Peace / the best reward of all his Labours / He died February 16 1741/2 Aged 67'

Details

Description: Two skulls and flowering urn above, cherub's heads and swags at the top of the inscription tablet. Winged cherub's heads and floral garlands down sides. Below, a skull with shell-shaped wings and a shell shaped cartouche.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: South gallery
Materials: Marble

Event Category

1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession

People

Percy, Francis
Age: 67
Date of Death: 16/2/1741
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: There is a memorial to his son in Portsmouth Cathedral. He was also named Francis Percy, and died 12 June 1733 whilst serving on his Majesty's ship 'Edinburgh'.
Bibliography: Canon S.W. Wheatley 'Historical Notes: Rochester St Margaret' (Rochester, 1996) p. 23.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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  "id": "M3722",
  "location": "St Margaret's Church, Rochester, Kent, England",
  "transcript": "'Sacred to the Memory of / Captain FRANCIS PERCY /(a descendant of that most Noble and / Ancient family of ALNWICK CASTLE / NORTHUMBERLAND) who served 47 Years / in the Royal Navy. / In the Years 1700 he was blown up in the CARLISLE / And was providentially one of the seven that were saved / out of 200 Men. / In 1704 He was dangerously wounded in the / engagement between the English and French Fleets in the Mediterranean /In 1707 He was cast away on the Rocks of SCILLY / with Sir CLOUDESLEY SHOVEL & miraculously preserved. / He was at the burning of the French and Spanish Fleets / at Vigo: He was at the Taking of GIBRALTAR where He / boarded and Burnt a 28 Gun Ship. He was likewise at the / Sieges of COPENHAGEN, MATA-GUARDA Fort, BARCELONA; / OSTEND & TOULON; in all which Actions He acquitted himself with Bravery and Honour. / Worn out in the Service of his Country & long afflicted / with the Gout and Stone He now resteth in Peace / the best reward of all his Labours / He died February 16 1741/2 Aged 67'",
  "content": "<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M3722Large.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6800\" width=\"315\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M3722Large.jpg 500w, https://memorials.rmg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/M3722Large-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" /></figure>\n\n\n<p>Wall tablet in St Margaret’s Church, Rochester, Kent commemorating Captain Francis Percy RN d. 1741</p>",
  "images": ["/uploads/2014/05/M3722Large.jpg","/uploads/2014/05/M3722Large-214x300.jpg"],
  "categories": ["Vessel Loss"],
  "details": {
    "description": "Two skulls and flowering urn above, cherub's heads and swags at the top of the inscription tablet. Winged cherub's heads and floral garlands down sides. Below, a skull with shell-shaped wings and a shell shaped cartouche.",
    "type": "Wall tablet",
    "position": "South gallery",
    "materials": "Marble",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
    "vessel": ""  },
  "event": {
    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": "1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession"  },
  "people": [{"name":"Percy, Francis","age":"67","dateofdeath":"16/2/1741","causeofdeath":"Unknown","rankOccupation":"Captain RN","organisation":"Royal Navy"}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "There is a memorial to his son in Portsmouth Cathedral. He was also named Francis Percy, and died 12 June 1733 whilst serving on his Majesty's ship 'Edinburgh'.",
    "bibliography": "Canon S.W. Wheatley 'Historical Notes: Rochester St Margaret' (Rochester, 1996) p. 23.",
    "recorder": "B. Tomlinson",
    "photographer": "B. Tomlinson"  }
}

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters