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 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
Window in Grimsby Central Hall commemorating the loss of the trawler ‘Epine’ in 1938
Location
Grimsby Central Hall, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Details
Description: Depicts the steam trawler 'Epine' wrecked off the coast of Iceland 13th March 1948 with the loss of 14 men. Type: Window Position: Fisherman's and Seaman's Memorial Chapel Vessel: Epine
Extra
Notes: Originally erected in the Bethel Mission, Cleethorpes by relatives of the men lost in the wreck. Unveiled on 13 March 1949 by Kenneth Younger, MP. Bibliography: Alan J. Worton 'The Fisherman's and Seaman's memorial Chapel, a visitor's guide; 'Grimsby News' 19 March 1948. Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at Chester Cathedral to Vice-Admiral Wion de Malpas Egerton d. 1943
Location
Cathedral, Chester, Cheshire, England
Transcript
'IN PROUD MEMORY OF VICE-ADMIRAL / WION DE MALPAS EGERTON / DSO RN [RETIRED] / WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY / IN THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC / WHILE SERVING AS COMMODORE OF CONVOYS. / BORN 16TH APRIL 1879. DIED 1 JAN 1943.'
Details
Description: Carved with coloured Commodore's broad pennants and the RN cap badge. Above the latter, Egerton's shield of arms - on a field argent, a lion rampant gules between three phaeons azure. Type: Wall tablet Position: South transept Materials: Marble
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Egerton, Wion de Malpas Age: Date of Death: 1/1/1943 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at Jesus Chapel, Peartree Green, Hampshire, commemorating Captain Robert Scott RN d. 1807
Location
Jesus Chapel, Peartree Green, Hampshire, England
Details
Description: 'Confused representation of a shipwreck.' Pevsner Type: Memorial Position: West wall Artists: R. Tomlinson Vessel: HMS Boreas
People
Scott, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1807 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Captain of HMS 'Boreas' when she was wrecked on Hanois rocks, Guernsey with the loss of 127 lives.. Bibliography: Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd 'Buildings of England: Hampshire and Isle of Wight' (London, 1996) p. 593.
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
