Memorial in St Michael’s Church, Teignmouth, Devon commemorating Richard Westlake lost in the foundering of the brig ‘Isla’ 1823
Location
St Michael's Church, Teignmouth, Devon, England
Transcript
'Richard Westlake, Master of the brig 'Isla' also John Westlake his brother who lost their lives in the said brig which founder'd in the storm on the 29th day of October 1823 within sight of this church'
Details
Position: South wall of transept Vessel: Isla
People
Westlake, Richard Age: Unknown Date of Death: 29/10/1823 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Unknown Westlake, John Age: Unknown Date of Death: 29/10/1823 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
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Bibliography: H.J. Trump 'Westcountry Harbour: The port of Teignmouth 1690-1975' (Teignmouth 1976) p. 63.
Memorial in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park commemorating Henry Charles Mead and James Mead d. 1863
Location
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, England
Transcript
'Henry Charles Mead aged 31 and James Mead aged 22 years, Watermen who were run down and killed by the Woolwich Steam packet Plover, 22 September 1863'
Details
Vessel: Plover
People
Mead, Henry Charles Age: 31 Date of Death: 22/9/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Waterman Organisation: Mead, James Age: 22 Date of Death: 22/9/1863 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Waterman Organisation:
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Bibliography: Rosemary Taylor 'Every Stone Tells a Story'; Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981).
Wall plaque at the Head Post Office, High Street, Southampton commemorating Post Office and Telegraph Service workers lost in RMS ‘Titanic’ 1912
Location
Head Post Office, High Street, Southampton, England
Transcript
'THIS TABLET / IS ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF / THE POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE / TO THE HONOUR AND MEMORY OF / JOHN R. JAGO SMITH, JAMES B. WILLIAMSON / BRITISH SEA POST OFFICERS / AND THEIR AMERICAN COLLEAGUES / WILLIAM H.L .GWINN, JOHN S. MARCH, / OSCAR S. WOODY, / WHO DIED ON DUTY IN THE FOUNDERING / OF THE S.S. TITANIC APRIL 15 1912 / "STEADFAST IN PERIL"'
Gwinn, William H. L. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Sea Post Officer Organisation: March, John S. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Sea Post Officer Organisation: Smith, John R. Jago Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Sea Post Officer Organisation: Williamson, James B. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Sea Post Officer Organisation: Woody, Oscar S. Age: Date of Death: 15/4/1912 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Sea Post Officer Organisation:
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Bibliography: Brian Ticehurst 'The Titanic, Southamptons Memorials' (Poole, 1987) (illustration).
'In / Affectionate remembrance / of / Samuel Toms / who was lost with all hands / in the fearful gale of October 22nd 1882 / aged 25 years / "On a wild and stormy ocean, / Souls that perish heed the message / Christ has come to save"...'
Details
Description: Carved with a relief of a foundering brigantine. Type: Gravestone Vessel: Alice
People
Toms, Samuel Age: 25 Date of Death: 22/10/1882 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Mariner Organisation: J. Taylor
Extra
Notes: Brigantine 'Alice' of Guernsey, foundered on return trip from Newcastle laden with coal 168 tons, owner J. Taylor. Bibliography: David Kreckeler 'Nineteenth Century Monumental Memorials in Guernsey and their history of nautical interest' (typescript). Recorder: David Kreckeler 1981 Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Wall plaque at Warblington, Hampshire, commemorating Eric and Violet Back d. 1915 in the loss of HMS ‘Natal’
Location
Warblington, Hampshire, England
Details
Type: Wall plaque Materials: Brass Vessel: HMS Natal
People
Back, Eric Age: Date of Death: 30/12/1915 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Back, Violet Age: Date of Death: 30/12/1915 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
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Bibliography: Harry Chesney 'An Unhappy Hogmanay', 'Family Tree Magazine' vol. 17, pp. 67-8 (Jan 2001)
Wall tablet at Butleigh, Somerset, commemorating Lieutenant Arthur Hood RN d. 1775, Captain Alexander Hood RN d. 1798 and Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood d. 1814
Location
St Leonard's Church, Butleigh, Somerset, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / ARTHUR HOOD ESQR. LIEUTENANT LOST AT SEA 1795 [1775?] / ALEXANDER HOOD ESQR. CAPTAIN KILLED IN ACTION 1798 / OF THE ROYAL NAV. / AND SIR SAMUEL HOOD BARONET NOMINATED / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE BATH / KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDER OF THE SWORD, / KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF SNT. FERDINAND AND MERIT / VICE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, COLONEL OF MARINES / AND LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET / IN THE EAST INDIES. DIED AT MADRAS 1814 AND WAS BURIED THERE / WITH PUBLIC HONORS / DIVIDED FAR BY DEATH WERE THEY WHOSE NAMES / IN HONOUR HERE UNITED AS IN BIRTH / THIS MONUMENTAL VERSE RECORDS. THEY DREW / AMONG THE WESTERN HILLS THEIR NATAL BREATH. / AND FROM THOSE SHORES BEHELD THE OCEAN FIRST / WHEREON IN EARLY YOUTH WITH ONE ACCORD / THEY CHOSE THEIR WAY OF FORTUNE; TO THAT COURSE / BY HOOD AND BRIDPORT'S BRIGHT EXAMPLE DRAWN, / THEIR KINSMEN, CHILDREN OF THIS PLACE, AND SONS / OF ONE WHO IN HIS FAITHFUL MINISTRY / INCULCATED WITHIN THESE HALLOWED WALLS / THE TRUTHS IN MERCY TO MANKIND REVEAL'D. / WORTHY WERE THESE THREE BRETHREN EACH TO ADD / NEW HONOUR TO THE ALREADY HONOURED NAME. / BUT ARTHUR IN THE MORNING OF HIS DAY / PERISHED AMID THE CARRIBBEAN [sic] SEA / WHEN THE POMONA BY A HURRICANE / WHIRL'D, RIVEN, AND OVERWHELM'D WITH ALL HER CREW / INTO THE DEEP WENT DOWN, A LONGER DATE / TO ALEXANDER WAS ASSIGN'D FOR HOPE, / FOR FAIR AMBITION, AND FOR FOND REGRET. / ALAS HOW SHORT FOR DUTY, FOR DESSERT / SUFFICING; AND WHILE TIME PRESERVES THE ROLL / OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL FEATS, FOR GOOD REPORT. / A BOY WITH COOK HE ROUNDED THE GREAT GLOBE. / A YOUTH IN MANY A CELEBRATED FIGHT / WITH RODNEY HAD HIS PART; AND HAVING REACH'D / LIFE'S MIDDLE STAGE, ENGAGING SHIP TO SHIP, / WHEN THE FRENCH HERCULES, A GALLANT FOE, / STRUCK TO THE BRITISH MARS HIS THREE STRIPED FLAG, / HE FELL IN THE MOMENT OF HIS VICTORY. / HERE HIS REMAINS IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE / ARE LAID UNTIL THE HOUR WHEN EARTH AND SEA / SHALL RENDER UP THEIR DEAD. ONE BROTHER YET / SURVIVED, WITH KEPPEL AND WITH RODNEY TRAIN'D / IN BATTLES WITH THE LORD OF NILE APPROVED, / 'ERE IN COMMAND HE WORTHILY UPHELD / OLD ENGLAND'S HIGH PREROGATIVE IN THE EAST, / THE WEST, THE BALTIC AND THE MIDLAND SEAS / YEA WHERESOEVER HOSTILE FLEETS HAVE PLOUGH'D / THE ENSANGUIN'D DEEP HIS THUNDERS HAVE BEEN HEARD, / HIS FLAG IN BRAVE DEFIANCE HATH BEEN SEEN / AND BRAVEST ENEMIES AT SIR SAMUEL'S NAME / FELT FATAL PRESAGE IN THEIR INMOST HEART / OF UNAVERTABLE DEFEAT FORDOOM'ED / THUS IN THE PATHS OF GLORY HE RODE ON / VICTORIOUS, ALWAY ADDING PRAISE TO PRAISE, / TILL FULL OF HONOURS, NOT OF YEARS, BENEATH / THE VENOM OF THE INFECTED CLIME HE SUNK / ON COROMANDEL'S COAST, COMPLETING THERE / HIS SERVICE ONLY WHEN HIS LIFE WAS SPENT. / OF THE THREE BRETHEREN ALEXANDER'S SON / (SOLE SCION HE IN WHOM THEIR LINE SURVIVED) / WITH ENGLISH FEELING AND THE DEEPER SENSE / OF FILIAL DUTY CONSECRATES THIS TOMB'
Details
Description: Inscription surrounded by gothic tracery, the Hood arms and supporters in high relief above. A relief at the base of the memorial shows Samuel Hood as Captain of the Frigate 'Juno' rescuing three sailors from a wreck in St Anne's harbour, Jamaica on 3 February 1791.
Type: Wall tablet Position: South Transept Artists: Lucius Gahagan Vessel: Pomona, Hercules; Mars
People
Hood, Arthur Age: Date of Death: 1775 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Hood, Alexander Age: 40 Date of Death: 21/4/1798 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Hood, Samuel Age: 52 Date of Death: 24/12/1814 Cause of Death: Infectious disease Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral of the White Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Inscription by Robert Southey.
Bibliography: Hore, Peter 'Nelson's Band of Brothers: Lives and Memorials' (Barnsley, 2015) p. 25. Photographer: Anne Michell
Memorial in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff commemorating George Arthur Giles d. 1917 in the loss of SS ‘Treverbyn’
Location
Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales
Transcript
'Sweet Jesus / give rest to the soul of / Eliza Emma / the beloved wife of / George Arthur Giles / who died July 5th 1911 aged 36 years / Also the above George Arthur Giles / Lost at sea by enemy action Sept 3rd 1917 / Aged 45 years / R.I.P. / Also of their daughter. Jessie / who died Dec 19th 1897 / aged 3 months / Interred at Shooters Hill Cemetery London.'
Details
Description: Cross on plinth. Type: Cross Vessel: SS 'Treverbyn'
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Giles, George Arthur Age: 45 Date of Death: 3/9/1917 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: 1st Engineer Organisation: E. Hain & Son
Extra
Notes: SS 'Treverbyn' of St Ives, sunk after being mined whilst on a voyage from Narvik to Manchester with a cargo of iron ore. Recorder: David J. Wickham
Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating those who died in 1878 in the loss of the ‘Li-Chi’
Location
Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World
Transcript
'In memory of Captain FRY [or Pry], Mr MCLEISH and those who were lost in the R.C. Li-chi, 8th. October, 1878'. [on body stone] 'The floods are risen O Lord / the floods have lifted / their voice / the floods lift up their waves'
