Category Archives: Vessel Loss

Vessel Loss

Mitcham cemetery, London, England

Memorial at Mitcham Cemetery, London commemorating Cecil Stringer d. 1941 in the loss of HMS ‘Hood’

Location

Mitcham cemetery, London, England

Details

Vessel: HMS Hood

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

People

Stringer, Cecil Augustus Bentley
Age: 41
Date of Death: 24/5/1941
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Able Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Born 1899. On HMS 'Hood' when sunk by 'Bismarck'.
Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 206.

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Vessel Loss

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England

Memorial at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, commemorating W. Riley d. 1940

Location

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, England

Transcript

'W Riley, Greaser and Fireman SS 'British Liberty' 6th January 1940 aged 35.'

Details

Vessel: SS British Liberty

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

People

Riley, W.
Age: 35
Date of Death: 6/1/1940
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Greaser. Fireman
Organisation: British Tanker Company

Extra

Notes: 'British Liberty' 1939, owner: British Tanker Company, mined 6 January 1940.
Recorder: M.T. Morton 1982

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Vessel Loss

St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England

Memorial at St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating Commander Charles Adolphus Baker RN d. 1822 in the loss of HMS ‘Drake’

Location

St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY / OF THE SELFLESS DEVOTION OF / CHARLES ADOLPHUS BAKER ESQR / COMMANDER OF H.M.S. DRAKE / WHO / WHEN THAT SLOOP WAS WRECKED ON THE COAST OF / NEWFOUNDLAND ON THE 25TH JUNE 1822 / REFUSED TO PROVIDE FOR HIS OWN SAFETY / UNTIL THE WHOLE OF THE CREW SHOULD BE PREVIOUSLY SAVED / AND IN PERSUANCE OF THIS GENEROUS RESOLUTION / PERISHED / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / AT THE REQUEST OF THE SURVIVING / PETTY OFFICERS AND SEAMEN / EVERY ONE OF WHOM / ON PASSING FROM THE SHIP TO A ROCK / ON WHICH THEY WERE ULTIMATELY SAVED / HAD/WITH A GENEROSITY EQUAL TO HIS OWN / PRESSED/CAPTAIN BAKER/TO PRECEDE THEM / BUT IN VAIN /AETAT 29'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Chancel
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Drake

People

Baker, Charles Adolphus
Age: 29
Date of Death: 25/6/1822
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson

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Vessel Loss

Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Gravestone at Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey commemorating Captain Robert Sharp d. 1844 in the wreck of the ‘Erin’

Location

Candie Cemetery, Upland Road, Guernsey, Channel Islands

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of Mary Sharp, who departed this life the 24th October 1832 aged 57 years. Also of the memory of Capt. Robert Sharp who was lost at sea on the 13th December 1844 off the coast of France aged 61 years. This stone is erected by their only surviving child Robert Cunningham Sharp'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Materials: Portland stone
Vessel: Erin

People

Sharp, Robert
Age: 61
Date of Death: 13/12/1844
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: 'Erin' schooner of Guernsey on passage from Shields to St Malo wrecked 13 Dec 1844 at St Germain Cap de la Hogue, France.
Bibliography: David Kreckeler 'Nineteenth Century Monumental Memorials in Guernsey and their history of nautical interest' (typescript).

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Vessel Loss

Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Memorial at Westoe Cemetery, South Shields commemorating James Mitchell d. 1867 in the loss of the ‘Queen Victoria’

Location

Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Details

Vessel: Queen Victoria

People

Mitchell, James
Age: 48
Date of Death: 3/12/1867
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Lost at sea with the brig 'Queen Victoria' foundered 3/12/1867.

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Lifesaving, Vessel Loss

Calf Sound, Isle of Man

Cross at Calf Sound, Isle of Man commemorating the rescue of the crew of ‘Jeune St Charles’ in 1858

Location

Calf Sound, Isle of Man

Transcript

'THE THOUSLA CROSS / TO COMMEMORATE AN ACT OF HEROISM / BY MEN OF THIS PARISH / IN THEIR RESCUE OF THE CREW OF THE / FRENCH SCHOONER 'JEUNE ST CHARLES' / IN 1858'

Details

Description: A wooden Cross of Lorraine which formerly stood on the Thousla rock as part of a warning beacon.
Type: Cross
Materials: Wood
Vessel: Jeune St Charles

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Vessel Loss

St Katherine Cree, Leadenhall Street, London, England

Window at St Katherine Cree, City of London commemorating casualties of the loss of the troopship ‘Lancastria’ on 17th June 1940

Location

St Katherine Cree, Leadenhall Street, London, England

Details

Description: Stained glass window showing Christ walking on the water, in the bottom left hand corner a panel depicting the upturned troopship with a boat in the foreground filled with survivors.
Type: Window
Position: South wall of nave
Materials: Glass
Date Erected: 1963
Artists: M.C Farrar Bell
Vessel: HMT Lancastria

Event Category

1939-1945 Second World War

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Vessel Loss

St Meteriana, Boscastle, Cornwall, England

Plaque in Boscastle, Cornwall dedicated to Gerald Alford d. 1940

Location

St Meteriana, Boscastle, Cornwall, England

Details

Type: Plaque
Vessel: HMS Glorious

People

Alford, Gerald Roose
Age: 17
Date of Death: 8/6/1940
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996), p. 25.

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Smuggling, Vessel Loss

St Gregory's Church, Seaton, Devon, England

Memorial in St Gregory’s Church, Seaton, Devon commemorating William Henry Paulson midshipman, RN d. 1817

Location

St Gregory's Church, Seaton, Devon, England

Transcript

'... who with 8 seamen all Volunteers perished in a gale of wind off Sidmouth whilst cruising in a galley for the prevention of smuggling on the 13th of June 1817 in the 23rd year of his age'

Details

Vessel: HMS 'Queen Charlotte'

People

Paulson, William Henry
Age: 22
Date of Death: 13/6/1817
Cause of Death: Vessel Lost
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: At the time of death was commanding a gallery with eight volunteer men ‘for the prevention of smuggling’.

Bibliography: Lisa Newcombe 'Smuggling in Cornwall and Devon'.
Recorder: E.R. Stage

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Vessel Loss

All Saints' Church, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Wall tablet at All Saints’ Church, Northampton commemorating Thomas Osborn d. 1809 in the loss of Indiaman ‘Jane Duchess of Gordon’

Location

All Saints' Church, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

Transcript

'Near / THE FOOT OF THIS PILLAR / REST THE REMAINS OF / ALDERMAN GEORGE OSBORN, / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / MAY 7TH 1827, AGED 73. / FRANCES, HIS BELOVED WIFE, / DIED SEP 23RD 1790, AGED 29 YEARS. / THOMAS, THEIR SECOND SON, / AGED 21 YEARS; / LATE OFFICER OF THE HON. EAST INDIA COMP`S / SHIP "JANE DUCHESS OF GORDON" / WHICH FOUNDERED IN A VIOLENT STORM / IN THE MONTH OF MARCH 1809, / WITH SEVERAL OTHER INDIAMEN / OFF THE MAURITIUS ON THEIR PASSAGE / TO ENGLAND / THE WHOLE OF THEIR CREWS PERISHING. / ALTHOUGH CUT OFF EARLY IN THE CAREER / OF HIS PROFESSION HE HAD ATTAINED / THAT DEGREE OF PRACTICAL SKILL AS A / NAVIGATOR, COUPLED WITH UNREMITTING G/ ATTENTION TO HIS DUTIES AS A SEAMAN, / ON ALL OCCASIONS, THAT SECURED TO HIM / THE CONFIDENCE OF HIS COMMANDERS, / AND ESTEEM OF HIS BROTHER OFFICERS'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Interior
Materials: Marble
Vessel: 'Jane, Duchess of Gordon'

People

Osborn, Thomas
Age: 21
Date of Death: 3/1809
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Honourable East India Company

Extra

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters