Category Archives: Vessel Loss

Marwick Head, Orkney, Scotland

Memorial on Marwick Head, Orkney, commemorating Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, lost in HMS ‘Hampshire’ on 5th June 1916

Location

Marwick Head, Orkney, Scotland

Transcript

'THIS TOWER WAS RAISED / BY THE PEOPLE OF ORKNEY / IN MEMORY OF FIELD MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER / OF KHARTOUM / THAT CORNER OF HIS COUNTRY / WHICH HE HAD SERVED FAITHFULLY / NEAREST TO THE PLACE / WHERE HE DIED ON DUTY.', 'HE AND HIS OFFICERS PERISHED ALONG WITH / THE OFFICERS AND NEARLY ALL THE MEN OF / H.M.S. HAMPSHIRE ON 5TH JUNE 1916.'

Details

Description: Square battlemented tower, 48 foot high.
Type: Tower
Materials: Stone
Date Erected: 1926
Artists: J M Bakie (architect); W Liddle (builder)
Vessel: HMS Hampshire

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Kitchener, Herbert
Age: 65
Date of Death: 5/6/1916
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Field-Marshall
Organisation: British Army

Extra

Notes: HMS 'Hampshire' struck a mine off Marwick Head and was lost with a total of 737 casualties. The tower, originally erected by public subscription, was repaired with a grant from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund, the Orkney Heritage Society and other organisations in 2016. A wall was added alongside the tower to commemorate the other men lost with the ship and includes the names of those who died.

JSON

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  "id": "M6585",
  "location": "Marwick Head, Orkney, Scotland",
  "transcript": "'THIS TOWER WAS RAISED / BY THE PEOPLE OF ORKNEY / IN MEMORY OF FIELD MARSHAL EARL KITCHENER / OF KHARTOUM / THAT CORNER OF HIS COUNTRY / WHICH HE HAD SERVED FAITHFULLY / NEAREST TO THE PLACE / WHERE HE DIED ON DUTY.', 'HE AND HIS OFFICERS PERISHED ALONG WITH / THE OFFICERS AND NEARLY ALL THE MEN OF / H.M.S. HAMPSHIRE ON 5TH JUNE 1916.'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial on Marwick Head, Orkney, commemorating Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, lost in HMS ‘Hampshire’ on 5th June 1916</p>",
  "images": [],
  "categories": ["Vessel Loss"],
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    "position": "",
    "materials": "Stone",
    "dateErected": "1926",
    "artists": "J M Bakie (architect); W Liddle (builder)",
    "vessel": "HMS Hampshire"  },
  "event": {
    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": "1914-1918 First World War"  },
  "people": [{"name":"Kitchener, Herbert","age":"65","dateofdeath":"5/6/1916","causeofdeath":"War casualty","rankOccupation":"Field-Marshall","organisation":"British Army"}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "HMS 'Hampshire' struck a mine off Marwick Head and was lost with a total of 737 casualties. The tower, originally erected by public subscription, was repaired with a grant from the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund, the Orkney Heritage Society and other organisations in 2016. A wall was added alongside the tower to commemorate the other men lost with the ship and includes the names of those who died.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "",
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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Memorial at St Mary, Lichfield to Kenelm Michael Dyott, Surgeon RN, lost in ‘Stephen Furness’ 1917.

Location

St Mary's Church, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

Transcript

'...He went down with HMS 'Stephen Furness' when it was torpedoed in the Irish Sea during the Great War, 1917.'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Alabaster
Vessel: HMS Stephen Furness

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Dyott, Kenelm Michael
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 1917
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: In a church under threat of redundancy.
Recorder: Sally Badham

JSON

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  "transcript": "'...He went down with HMS 'Stephen Furness' when it was torpedoed in the Irish Sea during the Great War, 1917.'",
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    "date": "",
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "In a church under threat of redundancy.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Sally Badham",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Fishing, Vessel Loss

St Ebba's Church, Beadnell, Northumberland

Memorial at Beadnell, Northumberland to Andrew Fawcus and his sons Thomas, Robert and Andrew d. 1885

Location

St Ebba's Church, Beadnell, Northumberland

Transcript

[Top stage] ‘TO THE MEMORY OF / ANDREW FAWCUS / AGED 59; / AND HIS THREE SONS / THOMAS, AGED 32, / ROBERT, AGED 27 / AND ANDREW, AGED 18 / WHO WERE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED / WITHIN SIGHT / OF THEIR OWN HOME / JANUARY 31ST 1885. / RESPECTED IN LIFE / AND DEEPLY LAMENTED IN DEATH /’ [Middle stage] ‘THEIR GRAVE / IS IN THE MIGHTY DEEP / AND THEY SHALL RISE AGAIN / THROUGH CHRIST, / WHEN THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP ITS DEAD / ON THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD’ [Bottom stage] ‘ERECTED BY FRIENDS’.

Details

Description: Stepped three-stage sarcophagus, top stage with scalloped corners, all surmounted with a cross inscribed ‘IHS’.
Type: Cross
Position: East end of the churchyard near the wall
Materials: Grey sandstone

People

Fawcus, Andrew
Age: 59
Date of Death: 31/1/1885
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: unknown
Organisation: unknown
Fawcus, Thomas
Age: 32
Date of Death: 31/1/1885
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: unknown
Organisation: unknown
Fawcus, Andrew
Age: 18
Date of Death: 31/1/1885
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: unknown
Organisation: unknown
Fawcus, Robert
Age: 27
Date of Death: 31/1/1885
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: unknown
Organisation: unknown

Extra

Notes: The four men were drowned after the capsize of fishing coble owned by the elder Andrew Fawcus, while they were picking up crab pots. Fawcus left a wife and four children, his three sons were all married.
Recorder: Mike Headon
Photographer: Mike Headon

JSON

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  "transcript": "[Top stage] ‘TO THE MEMORY OF / ANDREW FAWCUS / AGED 59; / AND HIS THREE SONS / THOMAS, AGED 32, / ROBERT, AGED 27 / AND ANDREW, AGED 18 / WHO WERE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED / WITHIN SIGHT / OF THEIR OWN HOME / JANUARY 31ST 1885. / RESPECTED IN LIFE / AND DEEPLY LAMENTED IN DEATH /’ [Middle stage] ‘THEIR GRAVE / IS IN THE MIGHTY DEEP / AND THEY SHALL RISE AGAIN / THROUGH CHRIST, / WHEN THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP ITS DEAD / ON THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD’ [Bottom stage] ‘ERECTED BY FRIENDS’.",
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    "artists": "",
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    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Mike Headon",
    "photographer": "Mike Headon"  }
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Vessel Loss

St Michael's Church, Newhaven, East Sussex

Memorial in Newhaven, East Sussex commemorating Captain James Hanson and the officers of HMS ‘Brazen’ lost 1800,

Location

St Michael's Church, Newhaven, East Sussex

Transcript

[SE Face] ‘THE FRIENDS OF CAPTN. HANSON / CAUSED THIS MONUMENT / TO BE ERECTED / AS A MARK OF THEIR ESTEEM / FOR A DESERVING OFFICER / AND A VALUABLE FRIEND. / IT WAS THE WILL OF HEAVEN / TO PRESERVE HIM DURING FOUR YEARS VOYAGE / OF DANGER AND DIFFICULTY / ROUND THE WORLD / ON DISCOVERIES WITH CAPTN. VANCOUVER / IN THE YEARS 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 / BUT TO TAKE HIM FROM US / WHEN MOST HE THOUGHT HIMSELF SECURE. / “The voice of the Lord is upon the waters” [SW Face] ‘NAMES OF THE OFFICERS LOST / JAMES HANSON ESQ / COMMANDER JAMES COOK / LIEUTS / JOHN DENBRY / PATRICK VENABLES / MIDSHIPMAN / JAMES HANWELL / JOHN BRAUGH PURSER / ROBERT HILL SURGEON / THOMAS WHITFIELD BOATSWAIN ROBERT AALDER YARIE [?] GUNNER / JOHN TEAGUE CARPENTER’ [Panel NW Face] ‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / OF / CAPTN. JAMES HANSON / THE OFFICERS AND COMPANY / OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BRAZEN; / WHO WERE WRECKED / IN A VIOLENT STORM / UNDER THE CLIFF / BEARING FROM THE PLACE S.W. / AT 5 O’CLOCK AM JANRY. 20TH A.D. 1800 / ONE OF THE CREW ONLY SURVIVING / TO TELL THE MELANCHOLY TALE, / BY THIS FATAL EVENT, THE COUNTRY, ALAS! WAS DEPRIVED, / OF 105 BRAVE DEFENDERS AT A TIME, WHEN IT / MOST REQUIRED THEIR ASSISTANCE. / THE REMAINS OF MANY OF THEM / WERE INTERRED NEAR THIS SPOT / BY THE DIRECTION OF THE ADMIRALTY. / “The waters saw Thee O God”. [Panel NE Face] ‘THE BRAZEN HAD BEEN ORDERED TO PROTECT / THIS PART OF THE COAST / FROM THE INSOLENT ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY; / AND ON THE EVENING / PROCEEDING THE / SAD CATASTROPHE, / HAD DETAINED A FOREIGN VESSEL WHICH / WAS PUT UNDER THE CARE OF / THE MASTER’S MATE, A MIDSHIPMAN / 8 SEAMEN AND 2 MARINES; / WHO WERE THEREBY SAVED / FROM THE FATE OF THEIR COMPANIONS.’ [On top step of base, facing SE in lead letters ‘THIS MONUMENT WAS RESTORED BY / LOUISA / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE CAPTN JAMES HANSON, RN /OCTOBER 1878’.

Details

Description: Ashlar obelisk, with slate panels on the rectangular base, Carved dolphins at the bottom of each panel, seaweed and shells above.
Type: Obelisk
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Ashlar
Vessel: HMS Brazen

People

Hanson, James
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Captain
Organisation: Royal Navy
Cook, James
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Commander
Organisation: Royal Navy
Denbry, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Navy
Venables, Patrick
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hanwell, James
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy
Brough, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Purser
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hill, Robert
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon
Organisation: Royal Navy
Whitfield, Thomas
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Boatswain
Organisation: Royal Navy
Yawrie, Robert Alder
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Gunner
Organisation: Royal Navy
Teague, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Carpenter
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Jill Seddon, Peter Seddon, Anthony McIntosh 'Public Sculpture of Sussex' p.86.
Recorder: See biblio.

JSON

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  "location": "St Michael's Church, Newhaven, East Sussex",
  "transcript": "[SE Face] ‘THE FRIENDS OF CAPTN. HANSON / CAUSED THIS MONUMENT / TO BE ERECTED / AS A MARK OF THEIR ESTEEM / FOR A DESERVING OFFICER / AND A VALUABLE FRIEND. / IT WAS THE WILL OF HEAVEN / TO PRESERVE HIM DURING FOUR YEARS VOYAGE / OF DANGER AND DIFFICULTY / ROUND THE WORLD / ON DISCOVERIES WITH CAPTN. VANCOUVER / IN THE YEARS 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 / BUT TO TAKE HIM FROM US / WHEN MOST HE THOUGHT HIMSELF SECURE. / “The voice of the Lord is upon the waters” [SW Face] ‘NAMES OF THE OFFICERS LOST / JAMES HANSON ESQ  / COMMANDER JAMES COOK / LIEUTS / JOHN DENBRY / PATRICK VENABLES / MIDSHIPMAN / JAMES HANWELL / JOHN BRAUGH PURSER  / ROBERT HILL SURGEON / THOMAS WHITFIELD BOATSWAIN ROBERT AALDER YARIE [?] GUNNER / JOHN TEAGUE CARPENTER’ [Panel NW Face] ‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / OF / CAPTN. JAMES HANSON / THE OFFICERS AND COMPANY / OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BRAZEN; / WHO WERE WRECKED / IN A VIOLENT STORM / UNDER THE CLIFF / BEARING FROM THE PLACE S.W. / AT 5 O’CLOCK AM JANRY. 20TH A.D. 1800 / ONE OF THE CREW ONLY SURVIVING / TO TELL THE MELANCHOLY TALE, / BY THIS FATAL EVENT, THE COUNTRY, ALAS! WAS DEPRIVED, / OF 105 BRAVE DEFENDERS AT A TIME, WHEN IT / MOST REQUIRED THEIR ASSISTANCE. / THE REMAINS OF MANY OF THEM / WERE INTERRED NEAR THIS SPOT / BY THE DIRECTION OF THE ADMIRALTY. / “The waters saw Thee O God”. [Panel NE Face] ‘THE BRAZEN HAD BEEN ORDERED TO PROTECT / THIS PART OF THE COAST / FROM THE INSOLENT ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY; / AND ON THE EVENING / PROCEEDING THE / SAD CATASTROPHE, / HAD DETAINED A FOREIGN VESSEL WHICH / WAS PUT UNDER THE CARE OF / THE MASTER’S MATE, A MIDSHIPMAN / 8 SEAMEN AND 2 MARINES; / WHO WERE THEREBY SAVED / FROM THE FATE OF THEIR COMPANIONS.’ [On top step of base, facing SE in lead letters ‘THIS MONUMENT WAS RESTORED BY / LOUISA / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE CAPTN JAMES HANSON, RN /OCTOBER 1878’.",
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    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "Jill Seddon, Peter Seddon, Anthony McIntosh 'Public Sculpture of Sussex' p.86.",
    "recorder": "See biblio.",
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Vessel Loss

St Michael's Church, Abergele, Conwy, Wales

Memorial at Abergele, Conwy to Benjamin Townsend, who died in the wreck of the ‘Guardian Angel’ 1867.

Location

St Michael's Church, Abergele, Conwy, Wales

Transcript

'BENJAMIN C TOWNSEND / SHIP MASTER / SON OF / WILLIAM H AND MARIA ANN TOWNSEND / BORN IN PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND / UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA / NOVEMBER 15 1827 / WHO PERISHED BY SHIPWRECK OF BARQUE / GUARDIAN ANGEL OFF THIS COAST / DECEMBER 2 1867 / LEAVING A WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN / AGE 40 YEARS 17 DAYS / he shall not return to us but we shall / go to him.'

Details

Description: Headstone carved with a masonic square and compasses above the inscription.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Grey sandstone
Vessel: Guardian Angel

People

Townsend, Benjamin C.
Age: 40
Date of Death: 2/12/1867
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: unknown

Extra

Notes: The 'Guardian Angel' was wrecked in a storm on the Constable Bank off Abergele. Eight of the crew of fifteen were lost. A similar headstone to Benjamin C. Townsend stands in North Burial Ground, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Recorder: Mike Headon NADFAS

JSON

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  "id": "M6577",
  "location": "St Michael's Church, Abergele, Conwy, Wales",
  "transcript": "'BENJAMIN C TOWNSEND / SHIP MASTER / SON OF / WILLIAM H AND MARIA ANN TOWNSEND / BORN IN PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND / UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA / NOVEMBER 15 1827 / WHO PERISHED BY SHIPWRECK OF BARQUE / GUARDIAN ANGEL OFF THIS COAST / DECEMBER 2 1867 / LEAVING A WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN / AGE 40 YEARS 17 DAYS / he shall not return to us but we shall / go to him.'",
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Vessel Loss

St Mary's Church, Denham, Buckinghamshire

Memorial to Admiral Sir H.J. Studholme Brownrigg d.1943 at Denham, Buckinghamshire.

Location

St Mary's Church, Denham, Buckinghamshire

Transcript

'In proud & loving memory of / Admiral / Sir H.J. Studholme Brownrigg / K.B.E. C.B. D.S.O. / who gave his life on active / service while serving as / Commodore of Convoys / 24th. Jan. 1943.'

Details

Description: A white oval tablet with a torus moulded frame. Above the inscription is a naval crown. Beneath is the crest and motto of the Brownrigg family (A sword entwined with a serpent on a mural crown). Motto: 'VIRTUTE ET SAPIENTE'.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Interior
Materials: Marble
Vessel: SS Tamatave

Event

1939-1945 Second World War

People

Brownrigg, Henry John Studholme
Age: 61
Date of Death: 24/1/1943
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: While Commodore of Convoy ON 16, Brownrigg was lost when SS 'Ville de Tamatave' sunk in a storm in the North Atlantic.
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)

JSON

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  "id": "M6572",
  "location": "St Mary's Church, Denham, Buckinghamshire",
  "transcript": "'In proud & loving memory of / Admiral / Sir H.J. Studholme Brownrigg / K.B.E. C.B. D.S.O. / who gave his life on active / service while serving as  / Commodore of Convoys / 24th. Jan. 1943.'",
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    "materials": "Marble",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
    "vessel": "SS Tamatave"  },
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    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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    "notes": "While Commodore of Convoy ON 16, Brownrigg was lost when SS 'Ville de Tamatave' sunk in a storm in the North Atlantic.",
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    "recorder": "The Arts Society (NADFAS)",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Vessel Loss

Eastbourne Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England

Memorial in Eastbourne Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex commemorating John Wesley Woodward d. 1912, a musician on ‘Titanic’

Location

Eastbourne Bandstand, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England

Transcript

‘THIS TABLET IS ERECTED AS / A TRIBUTE TO THE SELF / SACRIFICE AND DEVOTION OF / JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD / (FORMERLY A MEMBER OF / THE EASTBOURNE MUNICIPAL / ORCHESTRA / THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S / ORCHESTRA / AND THE / GRAND HOTEL EASTBOURNE / ORCHESTRA, / WHO, WITH OTHERS OF THE / HERO-MUSICIANS OF THE / SHIP'S BAND, PERISHED IN / THE ATLANTIC THROUGH THE / SINKING OF THE WHITE STAR / LINER "TITANIC” / ON APRIL 15TH / 1912. / "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH"’

Details

Description: Pink granite with two bronze panels, to the left with the inscription, to right with a depiction of the of the ship sinking. Also in bronze, a circular portrait of Woodward in the centre in relief, palm branches, music and cello below.

Type: Wall memorial
Position: On bandstand
Materials: Granite, bronze
Date Erected: 1914
Artists: Charles Godfrey Garrard
Vessel: RMS Titanic

People

Woodward, John Wesley
Age: 32
Date of Death: 12/4/1912
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Musician
Organisation: White Star Line

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Vessel Loss

Teigngrace Church, Teigngrace, Devon, England

Memorial in Teigngrace Church, Teigngrace, Devon, dedicated to Charles Beckford Templer d. 1786

Location

Teigngrace Church, Teigngrace, Devon, England

Transcript

[Upper] 'IN MEMORY / OF MR. CHARLES TEMPLER / YOUNGEST SON OF I. TEMPLER ESQ: / OF STOVER / WHO PERISHED IN THE SHIP HALSEWELL / BOUND TO BENGAL. / WHICH ON TO AWEFUL NIGHT OF JANUARY 5TH 1786 / WAS WRECKED ON ST ALBANS HEAD ON THE ISLE OF PURBECK / ON THE COAST OF DORSET', ' This stone alas! denotes only his Name, / For his body is buried / In the caverns of the great Deep; / while his Virtues remain engrav'd on the Hearts / of his surviving and afflicted Friends / who with pious Care and fond Regret / Will ever cherish the Recollection / Of those gentle Manners and brilliant Talents / Which hastening to Maturity, / Seem'd to merit a longer Term of Years. / At the instant when he enter'd on the First Duties of Life / in the fifteenth year of his Age / He was remov'd to a better State, / By the Decree of the Providence / Which always determines every thing for the best / Whose Way is in the Sea / Whose paths are in the great Waters / And whose Footsteps are not known.' [lower] 'Stern ministers of Death, ye Winds, ye Waves: / Who in your wild and pitiless Career / Deaf to the Cries of Youth of Innocence, / With headlong Rage these tender Victims hurl'd / On the rude Rocks. Could no less Sacrifice / Appease the King of Terrors; Oh forbear; / Tis impious to repine - so Heaven ordain'd / Whose sovereign Word the listening Storms obey, / Tis Man's with meek Submission to receive. / Affliction's bitter Cup so Heaven ordain'd, / Father of all, We bow to thy Decree, / Severe yet merciful. Thy will be done.'

Details

Description: A relief of the shipwreck in the centre with the survivors clinging to the rocks. This is flanked by dolphins, with the inscription on a tablet above; the verse on a draped marble cloth below, held in the dolphin's beaks. In white marble on a coloured marble back plate.
Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HEIC Halsewell

People

Templer, Charles Beckford
Age: 15
Date of Death: 6/1/1786
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: HEIC

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Notes: HEIC cadet, lost in the wreck of the 'Halsewell' on the Isle of Purbeck in 1786.

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Emigration, Vessel Loss

Bagh Siar, Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Memorial to passengers and crew of ‘Annie Jane’ wrecked Vatersay, 1853.

Location

Bagh Siar, Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Transcript

'THE SHIP ANNIE JANE / WITH EMIGRANTS / FROM LIVERPOOL TO QUEBEC / WAS TOTALLY WRECKED / IN THIS BAY / AND THREE FOURTHS / OF THE CREW AND PASSENGERS / NUMBERING ABOUT 350 / MEN WOMEN AND CHILDRED / WERE DROWNED / AND THEIR BODIES INTERRED HERE' [base] 'AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD / WHICH WERE IN IT REV. XX 13'

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Type: Obelisk
Materials: Granite
Vessel: Annie Jane

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Notes: 'Annie Jane' an emigrant ship bound for Quebec from Liverpool, driven onshore at Vatersay with the loss of about 348 casualties on 28 September 1853..

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Vessel Loss

St Margaret's Church, Paston, Norfolk, England

Memorial window at St Margaret’s Church Paston, Norfolk, dedicated to Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Mack RN, d. 1917, lost in HMS ‘Tornado’

Location

St Margaret's Church, Paston, Norfolk, England

Transcript

'To the Glory of God. I proud and loving memory of / Ralph Michael Mack Lt Commander RN younger son of Hugh Paston Mack / and Blanch Elizabeth his wife / Grandson of the late John Mack / of Paston Hall. / He commissioned and commanded / the Destroyer H.M.S. Lucifer in the / engagements of Heligoland Bight / 29 Aug 1914, and Dogger Bank / 24 Jan 1915 and was mentioned in / despatches June 1917. / He was killed in action off the / Dutch Coast 23 Dec 1917 / going down with his ship H.M.S. TORNADO.'

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Description: Three light window, in the tracery above, the White Ensign (with blue cross) and the Union Flag. The three main lights depict St Michael in the centre flanked by two angels. The left hand one holds a shield depicting Britannia, a naval crown as the crest. The right hand angel holds a shield bearing the Admiralty foul anchor, a king's crown above. At the base the dedication panel is flanked by HMS 'Tornado' on the left and the sea off a shoreline with flying swans to the right.
Type: Window
Materials: Glass
Vessel: HMS 'Lucifer'; HMS ‘Tornado'

Event

Battle of Heligoland Bight; Battle of Dogger Bank

Event Category

1914-1918 First World War

People

Mack, Ralph Michael
Age: 34
Date of Death: 23/12/1917
Cause of Death: killed in action
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson
Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond

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