Memorial at St Paul’s Garrison Church, Esquimalt, Canada commemorating the 140 officers and crew of the HMS ‘Condor’, which was lost in December 1901 off Vancouver.
Location
St Paul's Garrison Church, Esquimalt, Canada, Rest of the World
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF THE / COMMANDER OFFICERS AND MEN OF / H.M.S. CONDOR / WHICH WAS LOST AT SEA WITH ALL HANDS / IN DECEMBER 1901 OFF THE COAST OF / VANCOUVER ISLAND. / 'OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE / O LORD LORD HEAR MY VOICE’ / ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF / THE PACIFIC SQUADRON'.
Notes: The HMS 'Condor', a steel sloop, left Esquimalt, British Columbia, bound for Honolulu, on 2nd December 1901, with a crew of 140 men, including 10 cadets. She encounter a gale off Cape Flattery, Vancouver. HMS 'Condor' was official noted as missing with all hands on 3rd February 1902. A lifebuoy was found off Banks Island and was placed near the commemorative plaque. Recorder: Graham Ford
Memorial in Stranger’s Cemetery, Fortuneswell, Dorset, commemorating Louisa Fowler d. 1872
Location
Stranger's Cemetery, Fortuneswell, Dorset, England
Transcript
'Here lies the body of / LOUISA FOWLER / widow of the late VILLIERS BUSSY FOWLER ESQ of Carne Fowler C. Mayo / and daughter of the late Major BINGHAM of Bingham Castle C. Mayo / drowned in the fearful wreck of the 'ROYAL ADELAIDE' on the Chesil Beach / November 25th 1872 / for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep/in Jesus will God bring with him'
Details
Position: 169 Vessel: Royal Adelaide
People
Fowler, Louisa Age: Date of Death: 25/11/1872 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Memorial at Edmonton to Robert William Eastwick, HEIC, d.1865
Location
All Saints Church, Lower Edmonton, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / ROBERT WILLIAM EASTWICK ESQRE / OF 39 THURLOE SQUARE, LONDON / WHOSE REMAINS ARE INTERRED OPPOSITE THE SOUTH DOOR OF THIS CHURCH / HE WAS BORN ON THE 25TH JUNE 1772 / AND DIED ON THE 31ST DECEMBER 1865 / AGED 93 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 6 DAYS / HE WAS MASTER'S MATE IN THE 'INCONSTANT,' FRIGATE IN 1788 / WAS 5TH OFFICER OF THE 'BARWELL' EAST INDIAMAN IN JANUARY 1792 / WAS ONE OF SEVEN WHO ESCAPED FROM THE WRECK OF AN AMERICAN SHIP / IN AUGUST 1792 AT CAPE NEGRAIS ON THE COAST OF BURMAH / WAS CAPTAIN OF THE 'ENDEAVOUR' WHEN TAKEN AT BALASORE ROADS / BY THE 'LA FORTE' FRIGATE, AND WAS RECAPTURED / BY THE 'LA SYBILLE'; IN THE CELEBRATED ACTION OF THE 28TH FEBRUARY 1799. / WENT UP WITH SIR JOHN MALCOLM'S MISSION TO PERSIA IN 1800 / WAS WITH GENERAL WHITELOCK'S EXPEDITION TO BUENOS AYRES IN 1807 / COMMANDED THE 'GANGES' WHICH BROUGHT TO ENGLAND LORD MINTO'S DESPATCHES / ANNOUNCING THE SUPPRESSION OF THE MADRAS MUTINY IN 1809 / WAS ONE OF TWENTY SURVIVORS, WHO ESCAPED FROM THE WRECK OF THE 'ELIZABETH' / AT DUNKIRK, IN 1810, WHEN 360 PERSONS PERISHED, / AFTER BEING IMPRISONED FOR SOME MONTHS, HE WAS LIBERATED / BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON / WAS CAPTURED AFTER A SEVERE ACTION, IN WHICH HE WAS WOUNDED. / BY THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER 'ANACONDA' IN 1812 / COMMANDED THE 'ASIA' WHEN WRECKED ON THE COAST OF HOLLAND IN 1826 / HE WAS A SKILLFUL AND FEARLESS SAILOR, AN HONEST, ENERGETIC, SELF-DENYING MAN / AND A SINCERE CHRISTIAN / THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED AS A TOKEN OF LOVE / BY HIS WIDOW AND CHILDREN / "THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY / BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD" JOB 1 21'
Details
Description: Guns, four flags and an anchor carved above the inscription panel. Arms and motto 'IN CRUCE FIDES' Type: Wall tablet Materials: White marble Artists: Gaffin, T Vessel: Inconstant, Barwell; Endeavour; Ganges ; Elizabeth
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War; 1803-1815 Napoleonic War
People
Eastwick, Robert Age: 93 Date of Death: 31/12/1865 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Commander HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Extra
Notes: Eastwick was buried in the churchyard at Edmonton opposite the south door of the church. Due to changes, that area was built over for a new aisle 25 years later but the Eastwick family vault may still survive. Bibliography: Frederick Teague Cansick 'Epitaphs of Middlesex' (London, 1869) vol iii, p. 164; W.H. Coates 'The Old Country Trade'(London, 1911) 108-110; Robert William Eastwick 'A master mariner: being the life and adventures of Captain Robert Eastwick' (London, 1891) Photographer: Photo by Robert Musgrove
Wall tablet at Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich commemorating officers who died following an explosion on HMS ‘Doterel’ in 1881
Location
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, London, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE / OFFICERS AND MEN / OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE ROYAL MARINES / WHO WERE LOST IN H.M.S. DOTEREL / ON THE 26TH APRIL 1881 / WHEN SHE WAS SUNK WHILE AT ANCHOR / OFF SANDY POINT / IN THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN / BY AN EXPLOSION OF HER FORE-MAGAZINE. / OFFICERS LOST- WILLIAM CARMICHAEL FORREST-SENIOR LIEUTENANT, / ARTHUR R MACDONNELL CREAGH-LIEUTENANT, / SEPTIMUS EVANS- STAFF SURGEON, / WILLIAM REID-CHIEF ENGINEER, / CHARLES ORD-ENGINEER, / CHARLES MITCHELL IRVING-CLERK, / JEREMIAH DRISCOLL-GUNNER, / WILLIAM MADDICK TAYLOR- BOATSWAIN. / "AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD / WHICH WERE IN IT"'
Details
Description: Relief of a sinking ship below inscription, anchor and flag within a laurel wreath with the inscription 'VIVIT'. Type: Wall tablet Position: Entrance Materials: Marble Artists: C. R. Smith Vessel: HMS Doterel
People
Creagh, Arthur R. MacDonnell Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Driscoll, Jeremiah Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Gunner Organisation: Royal Navy Evans, Septimus Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Staff Surgeon RN Organisation: Royal Navy Forrest, William Carmichael Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Irving, Charles Mitchell Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Clerk Organisation: Royal Navy Ord, Charles Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Reid, William Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer Organisation: Royal Navy Taylor, William Maddick Age: Date of Death: 26/4/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Boatswain Organisation: Royal Navy
Gravestone at Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey commemorating William Star Fitzgerald and his wife Frances d. 1828 in the loss of the ‘Fanny packet
Location
Green Street Cemetery, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'Here lie the bodies of William Star Fitzgerald Esq. 72 Reg., second son of Charles Fitzgerald of Rockhill, County of Limerick Esq and of Frances his wife eldest daughter of the Major Leavis, County of Northumberland [Militia] who within a space of three weeks and a day from their bridal one were both lost in the Fanny Packet which was wrecked off the Port of St Helier on the 1st day of January 1828'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: 15 Vessel: Fanny
People
Fitzgerald, William Star Age: Date of Death: 1/1/1828 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Fitzgerald, Frances Age: Date of Death: 1/1/1828 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Extra
Notes: Record in Jersey archives. the couple were married in Paris. 'Lloyd's List' 8 Jan 1828. 'Jersey 4 Jan. The Fanny of and from St Maloes, was driven on the Rocks about a mile from this Harbour during a violent Gale on the 1st inst. Eleven Passengers and two of the Crew drowned'.
Headstone at All Saints Church, Bigby, Lincolnshire commemorating Thomas Smith Dawson d. 1845 in the wreck of the ‘Cambridge’
Location
All Saints Church, Bigby, Lincolnshire, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of Thomas Smith Dawson aged 17 years. Eldest son of Thomas and Sarah Dawson of Brigg. Perished at sea with five others in the loss of the 'Cambridge' of London in a Hurricane on 24 Oct 1845. Homeward bound from the Bay of Honduras in Lat 39 30 N Long 55 W. The survivors (13) after 4 days and nights of intense suffering were taken from the wreck by the 'Venilia' Captain Frank of Liverpool landed in that port on 19 Nov 1845'
Details
Type: Headstone Vessel: Cambridge
People
Dawson, James Smith Age: 17 Date of Death: 24/10/1845 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Wall tablet at St Peter’s Church, Old Woking commemorating William Godfrey Jervis d. 1833 in the loss of the SS ‘Erin’
Location
St Peter's Church, Old Woking, Surrey, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / SOPHIA FLOYER JERVIS, / WIFE OF / WILLIAM P. JERVIS ESQR OF BEECH HILL, / AND DAUGHTER OF / JOHN KNELLER ESQR OF DONHEAD HALL, WILTSHIRE, / IN HER WERE UNITED / TO VERY RARE TALENTS, A MIND RICHLY STORED WITH / ALL THAT "POETS LOVE AND SAGES TEACH," / AND ALL THE TENDER SENSIBILITIES OF THE HEART, / EVERY VIRTUE THAT EMBELLISHES DOMESTIC LIFE, / HER HEARTFELT PIETY SHONE FORTH A BRIGHT EXAMPLE / OF A PURE CHRISTIAN, / SHE EXPIRED ON THE 1ST MAY 1834, AGED 37, / THE YEAR AFTER THE UNEXPECTED / AND AWFUL DEATH, / WILLIAM GODFREY JERVIS, / A VERY FINE YOUTH OF EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS / AND ACQUIREMENTS, WHO WAS LOST / IN THE ERIN STEAM PACKET, GOING TO IRELAND / TO JOIN THE 80TH REGT / 20 FEBY 1833, / AGED 17. / "AND NOW THE SAINTED MOTHER ROUND THE THRONE / HATH MET THE SAINTED SON, AND ANGELS SMILE / AND WEAVE THE FLOWERY WREATH THAT NE'ER SHALL FADE"'
Details
Description: The white inscription tablet flanked by two grooved pilasters, above, a relief of a classical female figure mourning over a sarcophagus which bears a shield with the son's name and death date. The figure on a grey background. Type: Wall tablet Position: Chancel Materials: Stone Artists: W. Milligan Vessel: Erin
People
Jervis, William Godfrey Age: 17 Date of Death: 20/2/1833 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Vault in Brothers Burial Ground, Rue des Freres Guernsey, commemorating Frederick Agnew d. 1899 in the wreck of the ‘Stella’
Location
Brothers Burial Ground, Rue des Freres, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Transcript
'In loving memory of Frederick, Aged 40 and Gerald William, aged 30. Beloved sons of Thomas Hilary and Mary Elizabeth Agnew of Hautville. Also of Frederick William, aged 7, Eldest son of the above Frederick of London who perished in the wreck of the Stella off the Casquets on Good Friday eve March 30th 1899'
Details
Position: South wall Agnew family vault Vessel: SS Stella
People
Agnew, Frederick William Age: 7 Date of Death: 30/3/1899 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: London and South Western Railway
Extra
Notes: Also of Gerald William Agnew 30, and Fredrick William Agnew 7. Bibliography: David Kreckeler, Guernsey Maritime Memorials.
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
