Wall tablet in St Nicholas’s Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk commemorating Rebecca Cooper and Thomas Cooper Sarjant d. 1838 in the loss of the ‘Protector’
Location
St Nicholas's Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England
Transcript
'This Tablet / IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / MRS. REBECCA COOPER, / BORN IN THE TOWN OF LYNN REGIS, NORFOLK, / 18TH NOVEMBER 1797, / BY HER AFFECTIONATE AND SORROWING HUSBAND / MR J. D. COOPER / MASTER PILOT IN THE H.C. MARINE. / ALSO HER SON THOMAS COOPER SARJANT. / AGED EIGHT YEARS, / WHO WERE DROWNED WHILE ON THEIR PASSAGE / FROM ENGLAND, ON BOARD THE SHIP / PROTECTOR, / WHICH WAS WRECKED OFF THE SAND HEADS / DURING A SEVERE GALE ON THE 19TH OCT. 1838 / WHEN ALL HER PASSENGERS AND CREW / (SEVEN EXCEPTED) PERISHED / She is not dead; but sleepeth. LUKE VIII 52 / Blessed are the dead, which die in the LORD, / from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit; that / they may rest from their labours, and their / works do follow them. REV. XIV 13’ James THOMPSON, FORT WILLIAM
Details
Description: A carved panel above the inscription showing the hull of the wrecked ship amid waves. Type: Wall tablet Position: End of the nave, south side Materials: Marble Artists: James Thompson Vessel: Protector
People
Cooper, Rebecca Age: 40 Date of Death: 19/10/1838 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Unknown Sarjant, Thomas Cooper Age: 8 Date of Death: 19/10/1838 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Unknown
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.
Wall tablet in St Martin’s Church, Cheriton, Kent commemorating John Du Boulay, Midshipman RN d. 1858 in the loss of HMS ‘Sappho’
Location
St Martin's Church, Cheriton, Kent, England
Transcript
'In memory of / EDMUND JAMES the infant son of / THOMAS and HARRIET DU BOULAY of Sandgate / He died 21st October 1843 / Also of HENRY BROCKMAN son of the above / He died 30 July 1851 / and lastly of / JOHN fourth son of THOMAS and HARRIET DU BOULAY / Midshipman of H.M.S. Sappho / supposed to have foundered at sea in 1857 [1858?] / he was born 4th January 1841'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Position: West wall nave C62 Materials: White marble Vessel: HMS Sappho
People
Du Boulay, John Age: 16 Date of Death: 1858 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: J.J. Colledge 'Ships of the Royal Navy' gives the date HMS 'Sappho' foundered as 1859. Bibliography: Pauline Davey 'St Martins Church, Cheriton Monumental inscriptions' part II, p. 32, no. C62. (Folkestone and District Family History Society 1985).
Painting in St Jude’s Church, Hampstead commemorating Michael Rennie d. 1940
Location
St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
Transcript
'"TO THE FAITHFUL / DEATH IS THE GATE / TO LIFE. MILTON." IN LOVING AND PROUD MEMORY OF MICHAEL RENNIE ELDER SON OF THE VICAR OF THIS / CHURCH: CHILDRENS ESCORT S.S. 'CITY OF BENARES' SEPT 18 1940. REQUIESCAT IN PACE'
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Details
Description: Semi-circular plaque with cherubs in the upper border. Shields of arms in the corners. Depicts a sinking lifeboat filled with children. A young man is seated in the bows with his arm round a boy and a girl. He is pointing to the horizon. Type: Painting Position: Lunette above St George's altar Artists: Walter P. Starmer Vessel: SS City of Benares
People
Rennie, Michael Age: Date of Death: 18/9/1940 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Children's escort Organisation:
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Notes: Dedicated by the Archbishop of Canterbury Oct.1942. See file 792/3/47. Rennie the son of the vicar of St Jude's Church.
Memorial at St Catherine’s Church, Montacute commemorating Major Gilbert Langdon RM d. 1838 and Lieutenant John Tobias Langdon RN d. 1811 in the loss of HMS ‘St George’
Location
St Catherine's Church, Montacute, Somerset, England
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / THE REV. WM LANGDON RECTOR OF PYLLE / INCUMBANT OF STOKE AND VICAR OF THIS PARISH / CHAPLAIN TO THE EAST SOMERSET REGT. OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY / AND A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY / OBIT DECR. 10TH. 1823 AGED 87 / AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE, OBIT MARCH 13TH / 1795 AGED 42 / AND FOUR SONS / WILLIAM LANGDON WHO DIED ON THE COAST OF CHINA / AND WAS BURIED AT CANTON 1789 AGED 19 / MAJOR GILBERT LANGDON R.M. WHO WAS / AT THE BATTLE OF CAMPERDOWN IN HMS RUSSELL / AND IN HMS LEYDEN AT THE ATTACK OF / THE FRENCH FLOTILLA OFF BOLOGNE BY LORD NELSON / IN 1801. OBIT JUNE 20TH, 1838, AGED 83 / LIEUT. CHARLES LANGDON 21ST. REG. BENGAL N.I. / WHO AFTER SERVING IN A CAMPAIGN UNDER LORD LAKE / DIED AT AGRA NOV. 8TH, 1805 AGED 25 / LIEUT. JOHN TOBIAS LANGDON RN. / WHO WAS WRECKED IN HM SHIP ST GEORGE 98 GUNS / ON THE COAST OF JUTLAND DECR. 24TH. 1811 AGED 23 / WHEN ONLY SIX MEN WERE SAVED FROM A CREW OF 730 / GO STRANGER TRACK THE DEEP / FREE FROM THE WHITE SAIL SPREAD / WAVE MAY NOT FOAM NOR WILD WIND SWEEP / WHEN REST NOT ENGLAND'S DEAD / THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY CAPT. WM. LANGDON R.N. M.L.C. / OF MONTACUTE TASMANIA'
Details
Vessel: HMS St George
Event
Battle of Camperdown 1797; Attack on Bologne 1801
Event Category
1793-1802 French Revolutionary War
People
Langdon, Gilbert Age: 83 Date of Death: 20/6/1838 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Major RM Organisation: Royal Marines Langdon, John Tobias Age: 23 Date of Death: 24/12/1811 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Navy
Wall tablet in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Therfield, Hertfordshire, commemorating Captain Sackville Turner and Sarah Turner, d. 1774 in the wreck of the ‘Elizabeth’
Location
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Therfield, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
'To the Memory of / SACKVILLE TURNER Esqr / (a Captain in his Majesty's 33rd Regiment / and of / SARAH his wife / the only child of EDWARD CROCKLEY of Watton in Norfolk Gent / who were cast away and drowned in their passage / to Ireland on the night of the 5th of Septr 1774 / this stone is dedicated, / by their most affectionate and most afflicted brother, BARNARD TURNER. / To enumerate their virtues were an endless task, / and to number his sighs were vain. / Patience here / Her meek Hands folded on her modest Breast / In mute submission lifts th' adoreing Eye / Ev'n to the Power that wounds her.'
Details
Description: Above the inscription, a triangular pediment in the middle of which is an urn. Coat of arms at bottom.
Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Materials: White marble
People
Turner, Sackville Age: Unknown Date of Death: 5/9/1774 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: British Army Turner, Sarah Age: Unknown Date of Death: 5/9/1774 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Unknown
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Notes: 'The Elizabeth, Capt Weeks from Bristol to Cork was driven on the Ness Point in the Bristol Channel and beat to pieces. The Captain, Mate, some passengers and part of the crew to the number of 26 in all were drowned. Among the passengers were Capt Sackville Turner of the 33rd Regiment and his Lady who perished in each others' arms; in that position they were found and in that position interred. They have left two children,the eldest not two years old incapable of knowing the loss of such endearing parents.' 'Gentleman's Magazine'.
Bibliography: 'Gentleman's Magazine' (Sept, 1774) p. 442. Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson 2019 Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond 2019
