Memorial at Bulwick to Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon d. 1893 in HMS ‘Victoria’
Location
St Nicholas's Church, Bulwick, Northamptonshire, England
Transcript
[Above] VICE ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE TRYON K.C.B. / 3RD SON OF THOMAS TRYON BORN JANUARY 4TH 1832' [Below] ‘A MAN OF GREAT ENERGY, ZEAL AND RESOURCE. WHO EARNED A / WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION AS SEAMAN, STRATEGIST AND TACTICIAN. / HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, DIRECTOR / OF NAVAL TRANSPORTS ABYSSINIAN WAR, COMMANDER IN CHIEF / ON THE AUSTRALIAN AND FINALLY THE MEDITERRANEAN STATION, / WHERE HE DIED HEROICALLY AT HIS POST WHEN H.M.S. VICTORIA / SANK JUNE 22 1893. MUCH LOVED AND DEEPLY MOURNED'
Details
Description: Wall tablet in an Elizabethan style. A relief portrait of Tryon within an architectural frame. Above, a coat of arms with strap work flanked by two naval crowns. A foul anchor in relief on the apron below. Type: Wall tablet Materials: Stone Vessel: HMS Victoria
People
Tryon, George Age: Date of Death: 22/6/1893 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: HMS 'Victoria' sunk in collision with HMS 'Camperdown'. Recorder: Professor Norman Hammond & Dr J. L. Wilson Photographer: Professor Norman Hammond
Memorial in Washington DC, USA commemorating men lost in RMS ‘Titanic’ 1912
Location
Potomac Parkway, Washington DC, USA, Rest of the World
Transcript
'To the brave men who perished in the wreck of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. They gave their lives that women and children might be saved.'
Details
Description: A draped nude male figure with arms outstretched. Type: Memorial Date Erected: 1930 Artists: Gertrude Vanderbilt Witney Vessel: RMS Titanic
Extra
Notes: Women's Titanic memorial. Bibliography: John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas 'Titanic: a journey through time' (Yeovil, 1999). Clarice Stasz 'The Vanderbilt Women' (New York, 1991) p.210.
Wall tablet in St Mary’s Church, Whitby commemorating Cornelius Usherwood d. 1798, Steward Usherwood d. 1790, John Usherwood d. 1814 in the wreck of the ‘Alliance’ of Whitby
Location
St Mary's Church, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / WILLIAM USHERWOOD / WHO DIED JANUARY 17TH 1831, AGED 92 YEARS / AND OF ELIZABETH HIS WIFE; / WHO DIED JANUARY 20TH 1764, AGED 27 YEARS / LIKEWISE THEIR CHILDREN; VIZ / CORNELIUS, MASTER MARINER, DIED AT SAN DOMINGO, JUNE 30TH 1798, AGED 37 YEARS / WILLIAM AND NEWERY DIED IN INFANCY / ALSO OF ANN SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM USHERWOOD / WHO DIED NOVEMBER 1ST 1829 AGED 91 YEARS / AND OF THEIR CHILDREN VIZ / JOHN DIED MAY 7TH 1782 AGED 13 YEARS / STEWARD WAS LOST AT SEA APRIL 27TH 1790, AGED 17 YEARS / JOHN, MASTER MARINER WITH MOST OF HIS SHIP'S COMPANY WAS DROWNED ON HASBRO SAND / MARCH 1ST 1814 AGED 27 YEARS / GEORGE, SAMUEL AND GEORGE DIED IN INFANCY / AND ANN WIDOW OF DAVID ADAM, WHO DIED / SEPTEMBER 23RD 1857 / AGED 80 YEARS'
Details
Description: An urn in relief above the inscription tablet. Type: Wall tablet Position: North side of nave Materials: Marble Vessel: Alliance
People
Usherwood, Cornelius Age: 37 Date of Death: 30/6/1798 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner Organisation: Usherwood, Steward Age: 17 Date of Death: 27/4/1790 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Usherwood, John Age: 27 Date of Death: 1/3/1814 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner Organisation:
Plaque at St Oswald’s Church, Filey commemorating local fishermen who died at sea 1901-1948
Location
St Oswald's Church, Filey, North Yorkshire, England
Transcript
'THIS TABLET RECORDS THE NAMES OF FILEY FISHERMAN / WHO PERISHED AT SEA & WHOSE BODIES WERE NEVER FOUND. / 1901 / RICHARD DOUGLAS / ARTHUR DOUGLAS / 1903 / JOHN WILLIS / 1908 / JOHN WHEELER CRIMLISK. / 1911 / GEORGE SCALES / JAMES HY. NEWBY JENKINSON / ROBERT HAXBY / 1916 / JOHN RICHARD CAMMISH / 1919 / MATTHEW CRIMLISK / WILFRED CRIMLISK, / THOMAS ROBERT CRIMLISK, / WILLIAM JENKINSON, / THOMAS CASTLE JENKINSON, / RICHARD BAXTER COWLING, / RICHARD CAMMISH JENKINSON, / MATTHEW CAMMISH / MORTIMER SCALES / 1925 / ROBERT HAXBY JOHNSON / NOV 1925 / JOHN ROBERT JENKINSON, / ROBERT JENKINSON / GEORGE BAXTER JENKINSON / GEORGE JOHNSON CRIMLISK, / WILLIAM CAPPLEMAN CAMMISH, / JOSEPH EDWARD COLLEY, / EDWIN CHAPMAN JENKINSON, / GEORGE JENKINSON, / 1939 / TOM ROBERT SCOTTER / 1940 / WILLIAM COLLING / 1948 / RICHARD FERGUSON CAMMISH / THY WAY IS IN THE SEA & THY PATH IN THE GREAT WATERS'
Details
Type: Plaque Position: South aisle of nave, east end south wall Materials: Marble
People
Cammish, John Richard Age: Date of Death: 1916 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, Matthew Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, William Cappleman Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cammish, Richard Ferguson Age: Date of Death: 1948 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Colley, Joseph Edward Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Colling, William Age: Date of Death: 1940 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Cowling, Richard Baxter Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crimlisk, Matthew Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crimlisk, Wilfred Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crimlisk, Thomas Robert Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crimlisk, John Wheeler Age: Date of Death: 1908 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Crimlisk, George Johnson Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Douglas, Richard Age: Date of Death: 1901 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Douglas, Arthur Age: Date of Death: 1901 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Haxby, Robert Age: Date of Death: 1911 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, James Henry Newby Age: Date of Death: 1911 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Richard Cammish Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, John Robert Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Robert Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, George Baxter Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, William Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Thomas Castle Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, Edwin Chapman Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Jenkinson, George Age: Date of Death: 11/1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Johnson, Robert Haxby Age: Date of Death: 1925 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Scales, George Age: Date of Death: 1911 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Scales, Mortimer Age: Date of Death: 1919 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Scotter, Tom Robert Age: Date of Death: 1939 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Willis, John Age: Date of Death: 1903 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Wall tablet at St Clement’s Church, Hastings commemorating Arthur William Ticehurst d. 1866 in the loss of the ‘London’
Location
St Clement's Church, Hastings, East Sussex, England
Transcript
'In memory of Arthur William eldest surviving son of Frederick Ticehurst Esq. Mayor of Hastings. He lost his life at sea in the 28th year of his age while engaged in the active and faithful performance of his duty being first officer of the merchant steam ship 'London' which foundered in the Bay of Biscay with 239 souls on board January 11th 1866. Thy way is in the sea and Thy path is in the great waters, Psalm LXX VII 19. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, Rev.XX.13. This tablet was erected by public subscription as an expression of respect for the early death of...'
Details
Description: Carved with gothic tracery. Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Vessel: SS London
People
Ticehurst, Arthur William Age: 27 Date of Death: 11/1/1866 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: First Officer Organisation: Money Wigram & Sons
Extra
Notes: SS 'London' foundered in the Bay of Biscay in bad weather, due to her cargo shifting. She was on a voyage from Gravesend to Melbourne. Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1988
Monument at Old Cemetery, Southampton commemorating those lost in the RMS ‘Douro’ 1882
Location
Old cemetery, Southampton, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN E. C. KEMP / THE OFFICERS, ENGINEERS & CREW / OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET / COMPANY'S SHIP "DOURO" / WHO PERISHED AT SEA / ON THE 1ST APRIL 1882 / NOBLY SACRIFICING THEIR OWN LIVES / THAT OTHERS MIGHT BE SAVED.'
Details
Description: Gothic-style stone plinth bearing a pink granite column, surmounted by a plain cross. A rope twist border runs round the plinth below the inscription and above the rough base. Type: Monument Materials: Limestone, granite Vessel: RMS Douro
People
Kemp, Ebenezer Chapman Age: 45 Date of Death: 1/4/1882 Cause of Death: Vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Extra
Notes: Royal Mail steamship 'Douro' sank after collision with 'Yrurac Bat' 1/4/1882. Bibliography: Robert Douch 'Monuments and Memorials in Southampton' (Southampton, 1968).
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Stanley Gordon Grant d. 1905, Frederick Henry Grant d. 1951 and Sydney Crossland Grant d. 1951
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of STANLEY GORDON GRANT (Stan), youngest son of Henry Robert and Mary Jane Grant, late 2nd. Officer of Barque 'AFGHANISTAN', drowned June 3rd. 1905 during collision with H.M.S. 'CAESAR' off Dungeness, aged 19 years. Also Mary Jane... Also Henry Robert... Also Frederick Henry, Master Mariner, son of the above died March 8th. 1951, aged 71 years. Also Sydney Crossland Grant, O.B.E., Master Mariner, son of the above, died June 6th. 1951, aged 67 years'
Grant, Stanley Gordon Age: 19 Date of Death: 3/6/1905 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: 2nd Officer Organisation: Royal Navy Grant, Frederick Henry Age: 71 Date of Death: 8/3/1951 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation: Grant, Sydney Crossland Age: 67 Date of Death: 6/6/1951 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation:
