Memorial: M4307

Gravestone at Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland commemorating Jack Crawford, the hero of Camperdown d. 1831

Location

Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

Transcript

'THE / GRAVE / OF / JACK CRAWFORD / THE HERO OF / CAMPERDOWN' [base] 'THE SAILOR WHO HEROICALLY NAILED / ADMIRAL DUNCAN'S FLAG / TO THE MAIN-TOP-GALLANT MAST OF / HMS VENERABLE AFTER IT HAD BEEN SHOT AWAY / IN THE GLORIOUS ACTION OFF CAMPERDOWN / OCTOBER 11TH 1797 / JACK CRAWFORD WAS BORN IN POTTERY BANK SUNDERLAND 1775 / AND DIED IN HIS NATIVE TOWN 1831 / AGED 56 YEARS'

Details

Description: In relief, a Union Flag nailed to a diagonally-placed mast, a cannon and shot in the pediment above.
Type: Gravestone
Date Erected: 1888

Event

Battle of Camperdown

Event Date

1797

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Crawford, Jack
Age: 38
Date of Death: 1813
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: 'Church Monuments Society Newsletter' (Summer 1988) p.13.

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters