Category Archives: Vessel Loss

North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Memorial in North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar commemorating members of the Sutcliffe family who died in the wreck of SS ‘Cadiz’ 1875

Location

North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar, Rest of the World

Transcript

'SUTCLIFFE, Mrs Teresa aged 44 years / Richard Pinnock age 20 years / Rose Louisa age 18 years / Hammond Packer age 16 years, Charles James age 13 years / Mary Madeline age 5 years / Manuel Owen age 3 months / Born in Gibraltar, who / on their passage to England were / wrecked in the steamship / CADIZ off Brest on 8-5-1875 / Erected by a heart broken / father etc who lives to deplore / his irreparable loss / Also Alice Mary and Ellen / who died in infancy'

Details

Vessel: SS Cadiz

People

Sutcliffe, Teresa
Age: 44
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Richard Pinnock
Age: 20
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Rose Louisa
Age: 18
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Hammond Packer
Age: 16
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Charles James
Age: 13
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Mary Madeline
Age: 5
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:
Sutcliffe, Manuel Owen
Age:
Date of Death: 8/5/1875
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: B.D. & G.L. Metherell 1986

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Vessel Loss

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Thomas Gorddard d. 1903 and his son Henry Gorddard d. 1894 in the loss of the ‘Sierra Madrona’

Location

Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of ELLEN MALCOLM, the beloved wife of Thomas Gorddard who departed this life, 3rd. June 1887, aged 61 years. Also of Captain Thomas Gorddard, dearly beloved husband of the above, died 27th. November 1903 in his eightieth year. Also of HENRY GORDDARD, youngest son of the above, lost with all hands on board the ship 'SIERRA MADRONA', in a cyclone off the Mauritius, April 1894, aged 29 years'

Details

Type: Headstone
Position: Headstone D109
Vessel: Sierra Madrona

People

Gorddard, Thomas
Age: 79
Date of Death: 27/11/1903
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Gorddard, Henry
Age: 29
Date of Death: 4/1894
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Sierra Shipping Co Ltd

Extra

Notes: 'Sierra Madrona' foundered on a voyage from Liverpool to Rangoon 1894.
Recorder: Martin Davies 1985

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Vessel Loss

Grote Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands, Rest of the World

Memorial in Grote Kirk, The Hague, commemorating Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam d. 1665.

Location

Grote Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands, Rest of the World

Details

Description: A square canopy on four composite columns, a statue of Van Wassenaer Obdam in armour stands beneath it flanked by a page carrying a helmet and a putto carrying a shield and laurel branch, another putto with an inverted torch and a skull sits at his feet. Behind the admiral, an eagle on a terrestial globe bears a trumpeting fame aloft. Four virtues- Fortitude, Prudence, Vigilance and Faith. The plinth is carved with reliefs of three sea battles.
Type: Monument
Materials: White Carrara meble, red and black Belgian marble; wood
Artists: Batholomeus Eggers
Vessel: Eendracht

Event

Battle of Lowestoft

Event Date

1665

Event Category

1665-1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War

People

Obdam, Jacob van Wassenaer
Age:
Date of Death: 13/6/1665
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Admiral
Organisation: Dutch Navy

Extra

Notes: Dutch Admiral. Monument commissioned by the States-General. The inscription describes him as another Hercules who has beaten his way through the flames to reach heaven, hence the standing figure.
Bibliography: William Laird Clowes 'The Royal Navy, A History' vol. ii, p. 262 (London, 1996). Frits Scholten 'Sumptuous Memories: Studies in seventeenth-century Dutch tomb sculpture' pp. 145-177. Eva Firth Wolsdorff 'The Image of Admirals in tomb sculpture c.1600 and after'. (International Society for the study of Church Monuments Symposium 1980).

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Vessel Loss

All Saints Church, Staveley, North Yorkshire, England

Wall tablet in All Saints Church, Staveley commemorating T.S. Hartley, Surgeon RN died in the loss of HMS ‘Condor’ in 1901

Location

All Saints Church, Staveley, North Yorkshire, England

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Vessel: HMS Condor

People

Hartley, T. S.
Age:
Date of Death: 12/1901
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Wilfred Mossop d. 1848 and Wifred Gillberry d. 1865.

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'In Sacred Remembrance of / WILFRED MOSSOP / Master Mariner of the Port / Born at Whitehaven 7 December 1786 / Departed this life 12 December 1848 / "Therefore be ye also ready" / HANNAH, his Daughter / Died at Whitehaven 31 December 1854 aged 23 / WILFRED GILLBERRY, his Nephew / Born 17 Apr 1825 / Left Callao 30 May 1865 in command of / the ship 'Andacollo' bound for Valparaiso / and has never since been heard of / ISABELLA GILLBERRY, Wife of the above / Departed this life 11 December 1883 aged 56 years'

Details

Vessel: Andacollo

People

Gillberry, Wilfred
Age:
Date of Death: 1865
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation: Imrie & Co
Mossop, Wilfred
Age:
Date of Death: 12/12/1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: G.K. Gillberry 1987

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Vessel Loss

St Rumbold's Church, Pentridge, Dorset, England

Memorial at St Rumbold’s Church, Pentridge, Dorset, commemorating Harry Williams d. 1893

Location

St Rumbold's Church, Pentridge, Dorset, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of Harry Williams (Royal Marines) who went down in H.M.S. Victoria June 22nd 1893 aged 23...erected by his devoted sister'

Details

Vessel: HMS Victoria

People

Williams, Harry
Age: 23
Date of Death: 22/6/1893
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Marines

Extra

Bibliography: J.D. Spinney 'Some Naval Memorials in Dorset', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 73, p.195 (Greenwich,1987).

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  "transcript": "'In loving memory of Harry Williams (Royal Marines) who went down in H.M.S. Victoria June 22nd 1893 aged 23...erected by his devoted sister'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at St Rumbold’s Church, Pentridge, Dorset, commemorating Harry Williams d. 1893</p>",
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Vessel Loss

St German's Church, Rame, Cornwall, England

Gravestone in Rame, Cornwall of Thomas Spriddle d. 1878

Location

St German's Church, Rame, Cornwall, England

Transcript

'Thomas Spriddle / Seaman on board of H.M.S. Euridice who was drowned / by her foundering / March 24th 1878. Also Richard Spriddle / brother of the above / Seaman on board of H.M.S. Wasp who was drowned off Tory Island / Sept 22nd 1884 / And the sea shall give up her dead'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: HMS Eurydice, HMS Wasp

People

Spriddle, Thomas
Age:
Date of Death: 24/3/1878
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy
Spriddle, Richard
Age:
Date of Death: 22/9/1884
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: E.H. Verney 'The last four days of the Eurydice' (Portsmouth, 1879) pp. 58-63 (list of ship's company).
Recorder: David Bailey 1994

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Vessel Loss

West End High Street, West End, Southampton, England

Memorial at Southampton to Arthur Henry Rostron d.1940, Captain of RMS ‘Carpathia’

Location

West End High Street, West End, Southampton, England

Transcript

'In / Loving Memory / of / MY DEAR HUSBAND / SIR ARTHUR HENRY ROSTRON / K.B.E./R.D., R.N.R. / DIED NOV. 4th 1940 / AGED 71 YEARS. / ALSO OF/ETHEL MINNIE / THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE, / DIED JULY 7TH 1945, AGED 63 YEARS. / Sir ARTHUR ROSTRON / CAPTAIN OF RMS CARPATHIA / SAVED 706 SOULS FROM / SS TITANIC 15 APRIL 1912'

Details

Description: Art deco headstone with a shield with a cross within a wreath above the inscription.
Type: Headstone
Position: Old Burial Ground
Materials: Marble
Vessel: RMS Titanic, RMS Carpathia

People

Rostron, Arthur Henry
Age: 71
Date of Death: 4/11/1940
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Captain of the 'Carpathia' when she saved 706 souls from the 'Titanic'.

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Vessel Loss

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Memorial tile in All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, commemorating John Anderson d. 1880

Location

All Saints Church, Brightlingsea, Essex, England

Transcript

'JOHN W ANDERSON aged 26 lost in the Schooner 'Dash' off the Lincolnshire coast' Oct. 28 1880'.

Details

Type: Memorial tile
Vessel: Dash

People

Anderson, John W.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 28/10/1880
Cause of Death: Vessel loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Bibliography: Alfred L. Wakeling and Peter Moon 'Tiles of Tragedy' (Brightlingsea, 2001).

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Vessel Loss

St Akeveranus's Church, St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Gravestone in St Keverne, Cornwall dedicated to William Bullock d. 1891

Location

St Akeveranus's Church, St Keverne, Cornwall, England

Transcript

'In loving memory of WILLIAM BULLOCK of Shrewsbury, Chief Officer of the ship 'Bay of Panama' Wrecked on the Nave Point in this county [?] March 10th 1891 aged 40 years, Safe at last the harbour past, safe in his master's home'

Details

Description: Carved with a cross and anchor.

Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Vessel: Bay of Panama

People

Bullock, William
Age: 40
Date of Death: 10/3/1891
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Chief Officer
Organisation:

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters