Wall tablet at Church of St Michael and All Angels, Somerton, Somerset commemorating John Jacob RN d. 1811 in the loss of HMS ‘Hero’
Location
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Somerton, Somerset, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO / THE MEMORY OF JOHN SECOND SON OF / JOHN AND ANNA MARIA JACOB / OF THIS TOWN / WHO MET WITH A PREMATURE DEATH IN HIS 13TH YEAR / WHILE SERVING AS A MIDSHIPMAN ON BOARD / H.M.S. HERO OF 74 GUNS, CAPT NEWMAN DEC 24, 1811 / WHEN ON THEIR RETURN HOME FROM THE BALTIC / THEIR COMMANDER WITH THE WHOLE OF THE OFFICERS AND CREW / PERISHED IN A STORM OFF THE COAST OF HOLLAND / THY WAY IS IN THE SEA AND THY PATH IN THE GREAT WATERS / AND THY FOOTSTEPS ARE NOT KNOWN PS LXXVII-19 / THIS TABLET ERECTED BY HIS SORROWING PARENTS / WAS RENEWED BY HIS SURVIVING BROTHERS / PHILIP ARCHDEACON OF WINCHESTER / CANON OF WINCHESTER AND / RECTOR OF CRAWLEY HANTS AND / GEORGE LE GRAND / MAJOR GENERAL K.C. C.B. / JULY 1880'
Details
Description: Lozenge shaped stone memorial set flush with wall. Type: Wall tablet Position: Outside, east wall of vestry Materials: Stone Vessel: HMS Hero
People
Jacob, John Age: 12 Date of Death: 24/12/1811 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial at St John’s Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk commemorating G. E. Coleman, d. 1906, C. Willgoss, d. 1907, F. E. Day, d. 1909, E. Buckle, d. 1911, W. B. Edgley d. 1913, A. J. Bangalari, d. 1913
Location
St John's Church, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Friends lost at sea / G E Coleman 'Leader' 6 Sept 1906 / C Willgoss 'Ivanhoe' 14 Jan 1907 / F E Day 'Passion Flower' 13 Nov 1909 / E Bucknole 'Sarah Marian' 24 Oct 1911 / W B Edgley 'Seabird' 1 Nov 1913 / A J Bangalari 'Seabird' 1 Nov 1913'
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Vessel: Boy Horace, Ivanhoe (1891 smack), Leader (1901), Ketch 'Passion Flower' (1908, 46 tons), Sarah Marian, Seabird
People
Bangalari, A. J. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1/11/1913 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Broom, G. F. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 4/2/1906 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Bucknole, E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 24/10/1911 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Coleman, G. E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 6/9/1906 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Day, F. E. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 13/11/1909 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Edgley, W. B. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1/11/1913 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown Willgoss, C. Age: Unknown Date of Death: 14/1/1907 Cause of Death: Vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Unknown
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Notes: 'Ivanhoe' 61 tons built at Rye, 1891. Lost with two of her crew after a collision, three miles east of Southwold in a light S.W. wind. Bibliography: O.T. Olsen 'The fisherman's almanack' (1907). Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan
Gravestone at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk commemorating Henry B. Harrison, Master d. 1856 in the loss of the ‘Enfield’
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Transcript
‘... Henry B Harrison / the beloved husband of / Ann Eliz. Harrison / Master of the Schooner / ENFIELD, / who with his son and the / rest of the crew were lost / on or about Sept 26th 1856 / Aged 37. / "The sea shall give up it’s dead" / Also three of their children who died in infancy.'
Details
Position: Churchyard Vessel: Enfield
People
Harrison, Henry B. Age: 37 Date of Death: 26/9/1856 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Unknown
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Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan Photographer: Pippa Lacey
Gravestone at St Hilary’s Church, Wallasey commemorating Henry Rowles d. 1879 and Harford Giles Hargreaves d. 1881 in the loss of SS ‘Rathmore’
Location
St Hilary's Church, Wallasey, Merseyside, England
Transcript
'Captain Henry Rowles, killed on S.S. 'Rathmore' in a gale off Cape Henry, 1879. Harford Giles Hargreaves (stepson), aged 21, 3rd Officer, S.S. 'Rathmore', which foundered at sea, 1881'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Vessel: SS Rathmore
People
Hargreaves, Harford Giles Age: Date of Death: 1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: 3rd Officer Organisation: William Johnson & Co Rowles, Henry Age: Date of Death: 1879 Cause of Death: Maritime Accident Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: William Johnson & Co
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Notes: SS 'Rathmore' foundered 1880 on a voyage from Cardiff to Bombay with coal with a loss of 32 lives. Owners: William Johnson & Co. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
