Gravestone at Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia commemorating members of the Carmichael family who died in the wreck of the ‘Loch Ard’ 1878
Location
Cliff top, Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia, Rest of the World
Transcript
'SHALL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT / SACRED / TO / THE MEMORY OF / MRS EVORY CARMICHAEL / AND MISS RABY CARMICHAEL / WHOSE BODIES LIE BENEATH / ALSO/IN REMEMBRANCE OF / DR EVORY CARMICHAEL / MISSES MARGARET AND ANNIE / CARMICHAEL / ALL OF WHOM WERE LOST IN THE CALAMITOUS WRECK / OF THE 'LOCH ARD' / SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1878 / THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY / EVA AND WILLIAM CARMICHAEL / THE FORMER OF WHOM / WAS MOST MIRACULOUSLY PRESERVED / IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR DECEASED / PARENTS, ROTHERS AND SISTERS'
Details
Type: Gravestone Materials: Stone Date Erected: 1879 Vessel: Loch Ard
People
Carmichael, Evory Age: 40 Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Evory Age: 45 Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Rebecca Age: 20 Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Margaret Age: Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Annie Age: Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Evory Age: Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line Carmichael, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 1/6/1878 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Loch Line
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Notes: Stone moved and erected by William Carmichael. Dr Evory Carmichael was acting as ship's doctor in return for nominal sum and free accommodation. Bibliography: D. E. Charlwood 'The wreck of the Loch Ard' (Sydney, 1971) p. 96.
Gravestone at St Mark’s Church, Malew, Isle of Man commemorating Frederick Craine d. 1896 in the loss of the schooner ‘J.W. Campbell’
Location
St Mark's Church, Malew, Isle of Man
Transcript
'In Loving Memory of / John CRAINE / Miner St Johns / who died 22nd April 1835 / Aged 57 years / Also FREDERICK / son of the above JOHN & CATHERINE CRAINE / He perished at sea with others / on the schooner J.W. Campbell / of Gloucester Mass. U.S. America / which was capsized in a squall and / sunk off Long Island on the 17th April 1896 / aged 39 years / Also of CATHERINE / wife of the above named JOHN CRAINE / who died 19th March 1916 / in the 89th year of her age.'
Memorial at St Edmund’s Church, Southwold, Suffolk commemorating James Sterry, James William Sterry and John Page Sterry, d.1836 in the loss of the ‘Lady Nelson’
Location
St Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'James STERRY, master mariner also James William and John Page STERRY his sons, who lost their lives by shipwreck on the night of 25 Dec 1836'
Details
Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Vessel: Lady Nelson
People
Sterry, James Age: 49 Date of Death: 25/12/1836 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation: Unknown Sterry, James William Age: 23 Date of Death: 25/12/1836 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation: Unknown Sterry, John Page Age: 15 Date of Death: 25/12/1836 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation: Unknown
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Bibliography: Note says James died whilst on board ship from Rotterdam to London 1836, on 'Lady Nelson' off Margate. The vessel left port on the 23rd December and failed to arrive having presumably foundered. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan
Memorial at St Andrew’s Cathedral to the crew of the barque ‘Merlin’ of Sunderland, wrecked 1881
Location
St Andrews Cathedral, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Transcript
'ERECTED / BY / THE PUBLIC OF ST ANDREWS / IN MEMORY OF / THE CREW OF THE BARQUE MERLIN / OF SUNDERLAND / WHICH WAS WRECKED AT ST ANDREWS / ON THE 5TH OF MARCH 1881. / THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF THE CREW / CAPT GRIFFITH LEWIS, AGED 41 YEARS / J.G. BROWN, AGED 28 YEARS / W. CARTY AGED 24 YEARS / BENJAMIN PITT AGED 64 YEARS / C. COULSON AGED 20 YEARS / JOHN NEAL AGED 26 YEARS / CUTHBERT DIXON AGED 24 YEARS / S. ROWE AGED 18 YEARS / CHARLES SWINNEY AGED 19 YEARS / R. HETHERINGTON AGED 19 YEARS / LYNN KLAAS POST AGED 39 YEARS'
Details
Description: Headstone with triangular top and elaborate pinnacle, as well as a Gothic influence in the design details, esp. around the 'shoulders'. Inscription incised, memorial painted in light grey. Type: Gravestone Position: Churchyard Materials: Stone Vessel: Merlin
People
Brown, J. G. Age: 28 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Carty, W. Age: 24 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Coulson, C. Age: 20 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Dixon, Cuthbert Age: 24 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Hetherington, R. Age: 19 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Lewis, Griffith Age: 41 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Neal, John Age: 26 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Pitt, Benjamin Age: 64 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Post, Lynn Klaas Age: 39 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Rowe, S. Age: 18 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Swinney, Charles Age: 19 Date of Death: 5/3/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Charles Occleshead d. 1870 in the loss of the ‘City of Boston’
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Charles Occleshead, lost on steamship City of Boston which sailed from Halifax 28 Jan 1870'
Details
Vessel: SS City of Boston
People
Occleshead, Charles Age: 29 Date of Death: 28/1/1870 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Engineer Organisation: Inman Line
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Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 8, p. 65. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. The 'City of Boston' Inman Line, foundered on a voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool. Occleashead was 4th Engineer on 'The City of Limerick' in 1869. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
Memorial in St Giles’s Cathedral, Edinburgh commemorating the officers and men of the 74th Highlanders d. 1852 in the wreck of the ‘Birkenhead’
Location
St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transcript
'IN MEMORY OF / THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE / 74TH HIGHLANDERS. / (NOW THE 27TH BATN. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY) WHO WERE KILLED OR MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE VARIOUS ACTIONS IN / WHICH THE REGIMENT WAS ENGAGED... / ALSO OF LT. COL. ALEXR. SETON ENSIGN ALEXR C RUSSELL / AND 48 N.C.O. AND MEN OF THE REGT WHO WERE DROWNED AT THE / WRECK OF H.M.S. 'BIRKENHEAD' OFF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, / AFTER ALL THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON BOARD HAD BEEN / SAFELY LANDED IN THE SHIP'S BOATS / ERECTED BY SURVIVING COMRADES 1886'
Seton, Alexander Age: 38 Date of Death: 26/2/1852 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Colonel Organisation: British Army Russell, Alexander Cumine Age: 18 Date of Death: 26/2/1852 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Ensign Organisation: British Army
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Notes: Alexander Seton born 4/10/1814. Alexander C. Russell born 17/8/1833. Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996), p. 141; A. C. Addison and W.H. Matthews 'A deathless story: or the Birkenhead and its Heroes' (London, 1906), p. 138 (illustration).
Plaque dedicated to Frank Turner d. 1892 in St Nicholas Church, Bristol.
Location
St Nicholas Church, Bristol, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of / Frank Turner, aged 17 years / Apprentice on board the Bristol Barque / Payta / Which was lost on her voyage from Pisagua / July 1892 / Erected by his sorrowing parents'
Turner, Frank Age: 17 Date of Death: 7/1892 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Apprentice Organisation:
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Notes: Removed to St Nicholas from The Missions to Seamen Institute in 1981. Bibliography: Josephine Teague 'The Missions to Seamen Church and Institute Bristol'.
Cross at Woolwich Cemetery commemorating those lost in the ‘Princess Alice’ disaster 1878
Location
Cemetery, Woolwich, London, England
Transcript
‘THE SALOON STEAMER / “PRINCESS ALICE” / RETURNING FROM A PLEASURE EXCURSION / WAS WRECKED OFF TRIPCOCK POINT / BY COLLISION WITH / THE STEAM COLLIER “BYWELL CASTLE” / ON THE NIGHT OF / SEPTEMBER 3RD 1878’, ‘IT WAS COMPUTED THAT / SEVEN HUNDRED / MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN / WERE ON BOARD / OF THESE ABOUT 550 WERE DROWNED / ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY / WERE BURIED NEAR THIS PLACE’ ‘TO THE MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO PERISHED / THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED / BY A / NATIONAL SIXPENNY SUBSCRIPTION / TO WHICH / MORE THAN 23,000 PERSONS CONTRIBUTED’, ‘ IN THE MIDST OF LIFE / WE ARE IN DEATH / JESU MERCY’
Details
Description: Large Celtic cross. Type: Cross Position: Churchyard Materials: White marble Vessel: Princess Alice
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Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 283.
Brass in St Peter’s Church, Petersfield, Hampshire commemorating Commander Loftus Jones RN d. 1916
Location
St Peter's Church, Petersfield, Hampshire, England
Transcript
'TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF / COMMANDER LOFTUS WILLIAM JONES / ROYAL NAVY, H.M.S. SHARK / KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND MAY 31st 1916 / BURIED AT FISKEBACKSKIE IN SWEDEN JUNE 24th 1916 / AWARDED THE POSTHUMOUS HONOUR OF THE VICTORIA CROSS / "IN RECOGNITION OF HIS MOST CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY AND / DEVOTION TO DUTY IN THE COURSE OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND"/ Fear God - Honour the King'
Details
Description: Engraved with the badge of HMS 'Shark'. Inscription within a rope twist border. Type: Brass Position: Nave Materials: Brass Vessel: HMS Shark
Event
Battle of Jutland 1916
Event Date
1916
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Jones, Loftus William Age: Date of Death: 31/5/1916 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
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Notes: 'Shark' under fire from both fleets. Although wounded twice (including the loss of a leg) he continued firing until 'Shark' sank. Another monument at Fisbakskil. War shrine in form of calvary on outside wall of church also dedicated to Jones. Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)
Memorial at St Illtud’s Church, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire commemorating casualties of the wreck of ‘La Jeune Emma’ in 1828 the ‘Brothers’ lost in 1835 and the ‘Pickering Dodge’ lost 1839
Location
St Illtud's Church, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Transcript
'SACRED / to the memory of Lt. Col. COQUELIN / aged 45 Years / And ADELINE his daughter aged 12 Yr / Both natives of France / who lost their lives by the wreck of the / ship La Jeune Emma on Cefn sidon Sand / as they were returning home from MARTINIQUE / in the West Indies and were interred in this ground / on 25th Novr. 1828. / The above named Lady was Niece to Josephine, Consort / of that renowned Individual / NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. / The captain CHACELOT DE CHATILLON, and five seamen / also perished in the same Shipwreck / and were buried near this place. / In Decr. 1835 was wrecked the ship Brothers of Liverpool / from BAHIA on Cefn sidon Sand which also caused the death / of five persons who are buried here. / In July 1839 the ship Pickering Dodge of Boston AMERICA / was driven on the same Sand by which several Seaman lost / their lives Thomas Sweet, Jacob Winter & Luther Goldwright / were buried in this ground. / For particulars see the Parish Registers'
Details
Description: Headstone. Type: Gravestone Position: South wall Materials: Slate Vessel: La Jeune Emma, Pickering Dodge
People
Coquelin, Adeline Age: 12 Date of Death: 11/1828 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Coquelin, Coquelin Age: 45 Date of Death: 11/1828 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: de Chatillion, Chacelot Age: Date of Death: 11/1828 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Goldwright, Luther Age: Date of Death: 1839 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Sweet, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 7/1859 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation: Winters, Jacob Age: Date of Death: 1839 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Seaman Organisation:
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Bibliography: Graham Farr 'Wreck and rescue in the Bristol Channel, the story of the Welsh lifeboats' (Truro, 1967) pp. 118-119, 'Annual Register' 1829 p. 163. Recorder: David Saunders 1983, Gail Thomas 2011 Photographer: Gail Thomas
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
