Memorial on Islay, to Captain Ernest Davidson RN, d.1918
Location
Kilchoman Military Cemetery, Islay, Argye and Bute
Transcript
'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN ERNEST HENRY GEORGE WILLIAM DAVIDSON, ROYAL NAVY / IN COMMAND OF H.M.S. OTRANTO, 6TH OCTOBER 1918.'
Details
Description: Horizontal granite cross on bed of stone chips within inscribed kerb stones. Lead lettering. Type: Gravestone Materials: granite Vessel: HMS 'Otranto'
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Davidson, Ernest George William Age: unknown Date of Death: 6/10/1918 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Captain Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: HMS 'Otranto' wrecked on Islay following a collision. Recorder: David Hodge
Memorial to the loss of the emigrant ship ‘Exmouth’ 1847, on Islay.
Location
Islay, Argyle and Bute, Scotland
Transcript
'THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE / MEMORY OF 241 IRISH EMIGRANTS WHO / LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE 28TH OF APRIL / 1847, WHEN THE BRIG THE EXMOUTH OF / NEWCASTLE OUT OF DERRY AND BOUND / FOR QUEBEC CANADA AT THE TIME OF / THE GREAT FAMINE, WAS WRECKED ON / THE N/W COAST OF ISLAY, 108 BODIES, / MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN (63 / UNDER THE AGE OF 14, AND 9 INFANTS) / WERE RECOVERED AND ARE BURIED / UNDER THE SOFT GREEN TURF OF /TRAIGH BHAN / MAY THEIR SOULs REST IN THE / PEACE OF CHRIST', 'MEMORIAL FUNDED BY / THE IRELAND FUND OF GT. BRITAIN.'
Details
Description: A bronze plaque on a stone cairn within a gated and walled enclosure. A Celtic cross above the plaque and on the gate. Type: Memorial Materials: Sone; bronze Vessel: 'Exmouth'
Extra
Bibliography: Richard E. Keys 'Dictionary of Tyne Sailing Ships' (1998) Recorder: David Hodge
Memorial at St Mura’s Graveyard, Fahan, County Donegal, to the officers and men of HMS ‘Laurentic’, lost 1917.
Location
St Mura's Graveyard, Fahan, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland
Transcript
'THIS CROSS IS ERECTED / IN THE FAITH OF THE RESURRECTION / AND IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF "HMS LAURENTIC" / (CAPT. R.A. NORTON R.N.) / LOST OFF THIS COAST JANUARY 25TH 1917 / UNDERNEATH REST THE BONES OF THOSE / COMMEMORATED HERE / FOR THESE AND FOR THEIR COMRADES / WHO THUS GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY / THOSE WHO RAISED THIS MEMORIAL GIVE THANKS TO GOD.'
Details
Description: Stone Celtic cross on pink granite plinth on which are inscribed the names of the casualties. Type: Cross Materials: Stone; granite Vessel: HMS Laurentic
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
Extra
Notes: 'Laurentic' converted from a liner to an armed merchant cruiser. Struck two mines and sank on 25 January 1917 with the loss of 354 lives. Recorder: Owen McGonagle Photographer: Owen McGonagle
Memorial to the brothers Michael d. 1856 and Charles Cooke Saer d. 1863 at Carew, Pembrokeshire
Location
St Mary's Church, Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Transcript
'IN / MEMORY OF / MICHAEL SAER, SON / OF CHARLES DAVIES / AND ELIZABETH SAER / MARINER WHO DIED AT / DAIRYHAYS IN THIS PARISH FEB 26 1856 / AGED 25 YEARS / ALSO JOHN SECOND SON/ OF THE ABOVE C.D. AND / ELIZABETH SAER WHO / DIED AT DAIRYHAYS / NOVEMBER 10, 1864, / AGED 30 YEARS / ALSO CHARLES COOKE / SAER, MARINER, SON / OF CHARLES DAVIES / AND ELIZA JANE SAER / DROWNED AT SEA / IN MAY 1863 / AGED 19 YEARS / "I KNOW THAT THEY SHALL / RISE AGAIN IN THE RESURRECTION / AT THE LAST DAY, S. JOHN II, 24', 'ERECTED BY THE ONLY SURVIVING BROTHER.'
Saer, Michael Age: 25 Date of Death: 26/2/1856 Cause of Death: unknown Rank / Occupation: Mariner Organisation: unknown Saer, Charles Cooke Age: 19 Date of Death: 5/1863 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Mariner Organisation: unknown
Extra
Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond
Wall tablet at All Saints Church, Ryther commemorating Robert Forster d. 1841 in loss of East Indiaman ‘Cycee’
Location
All Saints Church, Ryther, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'A TRIBUTE TO A DEAR SON / ROBERT FORSTER / SIXTH SON OF / THE REVD. I. FORSTER, RECTOR OF RYTHER, / AND ANNE HIS WIFE / WAS BORN AUGUST 1ST. 1815, / AND IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE PERISHED ON BOARD THE / CYCEE, EAST INDIMAN; / HAVING NEVER BEEN HEARD OF / SINCE FEBRUARY 11TH, 1841 / TO THE PRESENT TIME JUNE 28TH 1847. / SHE WAS ON HER VOYAGE HOME.'
Details
Type: Wall tablet Materials: Marble Vessel: Cycee
People
Forster, Robert Age: 25 Date of Death: 1841 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Extra
Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond
Wall tablet in St Werburgh’s Church, Hoo, Kent, commemorating Lieutenant Charles Jordan RN, lost in the ‘Duc de la Vauginon’ 1779
Location
St Werburgh's Church, Hoo, Kent, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF LIEUT. CHARLES JORDAN, R.N. / WHO AFTER HAVING SIGNALISED HIMSELF / BY HIS GALLANT CONDUCT IN THE WEST INDIES, / WAS UNHAPPILY SHIPWRECKED IN THE NORTH SEA / IN THE MONTH / OF DECEMBER 1779 / AGED 22. / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY / BY HIS MOST AFFECTIONATE BROTHER
RICHARD JORDAN, A.M. / VICAR OF THIS PARISH.'
Details
Description: Neo-classical wall tablet. Type: Wall tablet Position: South wall, south aisle Materials: Marble Vessel: Duc de la Vauginon
People
Jordan, Charles Age: 23 Date of Death: 1779 Cause of Death: vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Jordan was in command of the Royal Naval cutter, 'Duc de la Vauginon' when she was wrecked on the island of Vlieland off the coast of the Netherlands. See ZBA5480 cup and cover in RMG collections. Bibliography: 'The Gentleman's Magazine', Volume XIII, New Series, 1840, January to June, p. 583.
Wall tablet at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, commemorating Lieutenant-Commander Julian Tenison, in command of submarine ‘P 4’, d. 1916
Location
Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England
Transcript
'FAVENTE DEO SEDULITATE', 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY / OF LIEUT. COMMANDER JULIAN TENISON / ROYAL NAVY SON OF CHARLES AND MABEL / TENISON. BORN 1885 JOINED H.M.S. / BRITANNIA 1900 AND WAS KILLED / IN COMMAND OF SUBMARINE P.4 / NORTH SEA FLOTILLA AUGUST 15 / 1916. AFTER TWO YEARS SERVICE / IN THE GREAT WAR / PRO REGE ET PATRIA...'
Details
Description: Alabaster, carved with coloured family arms and mantling above, gilded foliage down the sides. Type: Wall tablet Position: Cloisters Materials: Alabaster Vessel: P 4
Event
1914-1918 First World War
People
Tenison, Julian Age: Date of Death: 15/8/1916 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant-Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Memorial in Christ Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire commemorating Rainier Swiney d. 1915 in loss of SS ‘Persia’
Location
Christ Church, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Transcript
'Ernest Robert RAINIER SWINEY Col Mil Indian Army formerly commanding 1st Btn 39th Garhwal Rifles who having served his country with distinction for over 30 years, lost his life in the Mediterranean on Dec 30th 1915 through the sinking of SS Persia by an enemy submarine aged 52 years. Erected by his deeply sorrowing brothers and sisters'
Details
Type: Tablet Position: South wall nave Vessel: SS Persia
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Rainier Swiney, Ernest Robert Age: 52 Date of Death: 30/12/1915 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Memorial in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk commemorating Ernest Block, Able Seaman RN, d. 1914
Location
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Wm E. Block died 13 Feb 1934 aged 77 / Ellen M Block 7 April 1936 aged 69. Also their sons Ernest George drowned at sea on H.M.S. Bulwark, in the Great War 26 Nov. 1914 Arthur (Peter) Block KIA 1939-45 War Frederick C Block'
Details
Vessel: HMS 'Bulwark'
People
Block, Ernest George Age: Unknown Date of Death: 26/11/1914 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: HMS 'Bulwark‘ exploded while anchored at Sheerness on the 26th November 1914 following the overheating of cordite charges that had been mistakenly placed adjacent to one of the ship's boiler rooms. Out of 750 souls aboard their were only 12 survivors of the unfortunate event.
Memorial in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating William Baxter. d. 1867 and James Baxter d. 1868
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'BAXTER NOMAD / SIR ROBERT CALDER 1868 / 1867 Sacred to the memory of James Baxter, son of Captain William Baxter, of Findhorn, Morayshire, who was killed on board the ship NOMAD, of Findhorn, on the 28th. of August 1868, aged 16 years. / Also of the above Captain William Baxter, of the ship 'SIR ROBERT CALDER', of Findhorn, who was lost at sea, March 1867, aged 59 years'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Headstone 1.5 Vessel: Sir Robert Calder, Nomad
People
Baxter, William Age: 59 Date of Death: 3/1867 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Baxter, James Age: 16 Date of Death: 28/8/1868 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation:
Extra
Recorder: Martin Davies. April, 1985
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