Category Archives: Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Wareham, Dorset, England

Tablet in St Mary’s Church, Wareham, Dorset, dedicated to Robert Carruthers d. 1799, Captain Ned Carruthers of the Royal Marines d. 1801, and Captain Walter Carruthers of the Royal Marines d. 1810

Location

St Mary's Church, Wareham, Dorset, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF ROBERT CARRUTHERS SURGEON R.N. / AND THIRTY YEARS PRACTITIONER IN THIS BOROUGH / WHO DIED MAY 21 1799 AGED 81 YEARS / ALSO MRS ISABELLA CARRUTHERS WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED FEB 26 1786 AGED 39 YEARS / THEIR REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE CHURCH OF ST MARTIN'S / WITH FOUR INFANT CHILDREN / ALSO CAPTN NED CARRUTHERS R.M. / WHO WAS DROWNED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP INVINCIBLE OFF YARMOUTH / MARCH 17 1801 AGED 36 YEARS / LIKEWISE LIEUT. CHARLES CARRUTHERS 26TH REGT. / WHO DIED IN ANTIGUA SEPT 28, 1804 AGED 19 YEARS / AND CAPTN WALTER STIRLING CARRUTHERS R.M. / WHO DIED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP RODNEY / JUNE 13 1810 AGED 29 YEARS / SONS OF THE ABOVE'

Details

Type: Oval wall tablet
Vessel: HMS Rodney, HMS Invincible

People

Carruthers, Robert
Age: 81
Date of Death: 21/5/1799
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon
Organisation: Royal Navy
Carruthers, Ned
Age: 36
Date of Death: 17/3/1801
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Captain RM
Organisation: Royal Marines
Carruthers, Walter Stirling
Age: 29
Date of Death: 13/6/1810
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RM
Organisation: Royal Marines

Extra

Notes: Dossier has discrepancy stating Robert Carruthers death as 21/5/1789
Recorder: B. Tomlinson, 1981

JSON

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  "transcript": "'IN MEMORY OF ROBERT CARRUTHERS SURGEON R.N. / AND THIRTY YEARS PRACTITIONER IN THIS BOROUGH / WHO DIED MAY 21 1799 AGED 81 YEARS / ALSO MRS ISABELLA CARRUTHERS WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED FEB 26 1786 AGED 39 YEARS / THEIR REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE CHURCH OF ST MARTIN'S / WITH FOUR INFANT CHILDREN / ALSO CAPTN NED CARRUTHERS R.M. / WHO WAS DROWNED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP INVINCIBLE OFF YARMOUTH / MARCH 17 1801 AGED 36 YEARS / LIKEWISE LIEUT. CHARLES CARRUTHERS 26TH REGT. / WHO DIED IN ANTIGUA SEPT 28, 1804 AGED 19 YEARS / AND CAPTN WALTER STIRLING CARRUTHERS R.M. / WHO DIED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP RODNEY / JUNE 13 1810 AGED 29 YEARS / SONS OF THE ABOVE'",
  "content": "<p>Tablet in St Mary’s Church, Wareham, Dorset, dedicated to Robert Carruthers d. 1799, Captain Ned Carruthers of the Royal Marines d. 1801, and Captain Walter Carruthers of the Royal Marines d. 1810</p>",
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    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "B. Tomlinson, 1981",
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Vessel Loss

Dock Park, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Memorial at Dock Park, Dumfries commemorating John Law Hume and Thomas Mullin who died in the loss of ‘Titanic’ 1912

Location

Dock Park, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / JOHN LAW HUME, A MEMBER OF THE BAND / AND THOMAS MULLIN, STEWARD / NATIVES OF THESE TOWNS / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WRECK OF / THE WHITE STAR LINER / 'TITANIC' / WHICH SANK IN MID ATLANTIC / ON THE 14TH DAY OF APRIL 1912 / THEY DIED AT THE POST OF DUTY'

Details

Description: A tall granite obelisk, the inscription panel surmounted by a bronze relief of the liner, a musical score and the words of 'Nearer My God to Thee' below.
Type: Memorial
Materials: granite, bronze
Vessel: Titanic

People

Hume, John Law
Age: 21
Date of Death: 14/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Musician
Organisation: White Star Line
Mullin, Thomas
Age: 20
Date of Death: 14/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Steward
Organisation: White Star Line

Extra

Bibliography: 'Manchester Guardian' 2 June 1913 p.3.

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Vessel Loss

Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire, England

Memorial in Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire commemorating Wallace Henry Hartley d. 1912, bandmaster on ‘Titanic’

Location

Albert Road, Colne, Lancashire, England

Transcript

'WALLACE / HARTLEY / BANDMASTER OF / THE R.M.S. TITANIC / WHO PERISHED IN / THE FOUNDERING / OF THAT VESSEL / APRIL 15TH 1912 / ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY / CONTRIBUTIONS TO COM- / MEMORATE THE HEROISM / OF A NATIVE OF THIS/TOWN'

Details

Description: A bronze bust of Hartley stands on a stone plinth, flanked by two small female figures holding a lyre and a laurel wreath representing music and valour.
Type: Memorial
Position: Next to War Memorial
Materials: Bronze, Hopton wood stone; granite
Date Erected: 1915
Artists: Bromsgrove Guild
Vessel: Titanic

People

Hartley, Wallace
Age: 33
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Bandmaster
Organisation: White Star Line

Extra

Notes: The memorial cost £265-00. The figures were recast after they were stolen.
Bibliography: Clare Hartwell & Nikolause Pevsner 'The Buildings of England: Lancashire: North' (Yale, 2009) p.256; Quintin Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild' (Bromsgrove Society, 1999).
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Allerton Municipal Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Allerton Municipal Cemetery commemorating Jack Fairclough d. 1914 in the loss of HMS ‘Cressy’

Location

Allerton Municipal Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of Thomas Fairclough who died Feb. 16th.1912, aged 60 years. Also our dear son JACK, 3rd son of the above lost in the North Sea disaster on H.M.S. CRESSY Sep. 22nd 1914, aged 30 years'

Details

Type: Headstone
Position: North west of Roman Catholic mortuary chapel
Vessel: HMS Cressy

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Fairclough, Jack
Age: 30
Date of Death: 22/9/1914
Cause of Death: War Casualty
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Lost in HMS 'Cressy' sunk by 'U9' in North Sea 22/9/1914.
Recorder: Marin Davies 1985

JSON

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    "notes": "Lost in HMS 'Cressy' sunk by 'U9' in North Sea 22/9/1914.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Marin Davies 1985",
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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Stoughton, Leicestershire, England

Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Stoughton, Leicestershire commemorating Admiral Basil Beaumont d. 1703 in the loss of the ‘Mary’

Location

St Mary's Church, Stoughton, Leicestershire, England

Transcript

'This monument / is erected to ye memory of Admiral / Basil Beaumont was was lost in the / great Storm and to ye inexpressible grief of his relations / to whom he gave the highest proofs / of friendship. He was a public loss and / universally lamented; never was found in / any one person, more virtues and perfections / than he was blessed with. He was with the / 5th son of Sir Henry Beaumont Bart. / born in the year 1669, lost November 27, 1703. / This monument was put up by his sister / Anne Beaumont 1738.'

Details

Position: North aisle
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Mary

Event

Great Storm

Event Date

1703

People

Beaumont, Basil
Age:
Date of Death: 11/1703
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Admiral b. 1669, lost in Great Storm in 'Mary'.
Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996), p. 118.

JSON

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Vessel Loss

Holy Trinity Church, Salcombe, Devon, England

Gravestone at Holy Trinity Church, Salcombe, Devon commemorating Thomas Cook d. 1882

Location

Holy Trinity Church, Salcombe, Devon, England

Transcript

'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / THOMAS COOK / WHO DIED JUNE THE 15 1865 / AGED 49 YEARS / ALSO SARAH; HIS WIFE / WHO DIED APRIL THE 11 1854 / AGED 38 YEARS // ALSO KATE WEYMOUTH / THE DAUGHTER OF / WILLIAM & MARY RANDALL COOK / WHO DIED AUGUST THE 26TH 1864 / AGED 13 MONTHS. // ALSO JERVIS; THEIR INFANT SON / ALSO ERNEST ARTHUR / TWIN ... [REDACTED] / WHO DIED FEBRUARY THE 20TH 1873, / AGED 10 MONTHS. / ALSO THEIR SON THOMAS, / WHO WAS DROWNED IN THE SWIFTSURE / BY COLLISION WHILST ON A VOYAGE / FROM SALCOMBE TO GREENOCK / FEBRUARY 21 1882, / AGED 17 YEARS'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard 95 5th row, 5th from hedge end
Vessel: Swiftsure

People

Cook, Thomas
Age: 17
Date of Death: 21/2/1882
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Recorder: Lyn Collins
Photographer: P Lacey

JSON

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Fishing, Vessel Loss

Lowestoft Municipal Cemetery, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Memorial at Lowestoft Municipal Cemetery, Lowestoft, Suffolk commemorating George Gurney Hall, d. 1936 in the loss of the ‘Shore Breeze’ and A. E. Hall, d. 1943

Location

Lowestoft Municipal Cemetery, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England

Transcript

'GEORGE GURNEY HALL died Jan 5th 1936 aged 65. Lost on the drifter 'Shore Breeze' of Milford Haven also of ANNE EMMA HALL died March 17th 1950 age 78. Also of JOHN ROBERT died June 18th 1918 aged 6 years 9 months. Also of A. E. HALL seaman on the trawler 'Adonis' died April 15th 1943 aged 26'.

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Plot 2
Vessel: Shore Breeze, Adonis

People

Hall, George Gurney
Age: 65
Date of Death: 5/1/1936
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Unknown
Organisation: Unknown
Hall, A. E.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 15/4/1943
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

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Vessel Loss

St Peter's Roman Catholic church, Seel Street, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, Liverpool commemorating Captain John Clark d. 1819 in the loss of the ‘Auspicious’

Location

St Peter's Roman Catholic church, Seel Street, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Captain John Clark, who commanded the Auspicious when she was cast ashore on Hoylake Bay and all hands perished 23 Sept 1819 age 72'.

Details

Vessel: Auspicious

People

Clark, John
Age: 72
Date of Death: 23/9/1819
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 9, p. 441.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

JSON

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Vessel Loss

St Jude's Church, Southsea, Portsmouth, England

Tablet at St Jude’s Church, Southsea, Portsmouth commemorating Herbert Marsden Lanyon, drowned in the loss of HMS ‘Victoria’ 1893

Location

St Jude's Church, Southsea, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / HERBERT MARSDEN LANYON MIDSHIPMAN R.N. / SON OF/HERBERT OWEN LANYON OF BELFAST / BORN 14TH AUGUST 1876. / REFUSING TO LEAVE HIS ADMIRAL HE WAS LOST / BY THE FOUNDERING OF H.M.S. VICTORIA AT TRIPOLI / 22ND JUNE 1893. / FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. Rev.II 10'

Details

Description: Rectangular yellow mosaic tablet framed in pink and brown veined marble moulding. Inscription in red mosaic roman caps and lower case.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Lanyon Chapel
Materials: Marble, mosaic
Vessel: HMS Victoria

People

Lanyon, Herbert Marsden
Age:
Date of Death: 22/6/1893
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)

JSON

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Church of the Blessed Mary, Walmer, Kent, England

Wall tablet in the Church of the Blessed Mary, Walmer, Kent commemorating Acting Lieutenant Henry Harvey RN d. 1788 and Lieutenant Richard Harvey RN d. 1794 in the loss of HMS ‘Ardent’

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Church of the Blessed Mary, Walmer, Kent, England

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'T.P.A. of Henry and Richard Harvey, sons of Admiral Sir Henry Harvey, K.B.; Henry aged 20 yrs, Acting Lieut. in H.M.S. Rose, drowned off Newfoundland, July 16th, 1788: and Richard aged 23 yrs., Lieut of H.M.S. Ardent, which was lost in the Mediterranean, in April, 1794; supposed to have taken fire by accident, and blown up. The whole crew perished'

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Type: Wall tablet
Position: South wall of nave
Vessel: HMS 'Ardent', HMS 'Rose'

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Harvey, Henry
Age: 20
Date of Death: 16/7/1788
Cause of Death: Drowned
Rank / Occupation: Acting Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Harvey, Richard
Age: 23
Date of Death: 4/1794
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters