Vessel Loss

Memorial: M4965

Memorial at East Park, Southampton commemorating the engineer officers of the ‘Titanic’ lost in 1912

Location

East Park, Southampton, England

Transcript

[On plinth below Victory] 'GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN / THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS / LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. / ST JOHN 15TH CH 13TH V.' [Below] 'TO THE MEMORY OF THE ENGINEER OFFICERS OF THE R.M.S. TITANIC, WHO SHOWED / THEIR HIGH CONCEPTION OF DUTY AND THEIR / HEROISM BY REMAINING AT THEIR POSTS / 15TH APRIL 1912 / ERECTED BY THEIR FELLOW ENGINEERS AND FRIENDS / THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.' [Left panel] 'JOSEPH BELL JONATHAN SHEPHERD / WM. E. FARQUHARSON CHARLES HODGE / JNO. H. HESKETH FRANCIS E.G. COY / NORMAN E. HARRISON JAMES FRASER / GEORGE F. HOSKING HENRY R. DYER / EDWARD C. DODDS RENNY W. DODDS / LEONARD HODGKINSON ARTHUR WARD / JAMES M. SMITH THOMAS H. KEMP / BERT. WILSON FRANK A. PARSONS / HERBERT G. HARVEY WILLIAM D. MACKIE.' [Right panel] 'ROBERT MILLAR ALFRED P. MIDDLETON / WILLIAM Y. MOYES ALBERT G. ERVINE / WILLIAM MCREYNOLDS WILLIAM KELLY / HENRY R. CREESE GEORGE A. CHISWALL / THOMAS MILLAR HUGH FITZPATRICK / PETER SLOAN ARTHUR A. ROUS / ALFRED S. ALLSOPP WILLIAM L. DUFFY / HERBERT JUPE / ALSO / THOMAS ANDREWS ARCHD FROST / ROBERT KNIGHT.'

Details

Description: A semicircular seat, above flanked by columns, two bronze reliefs of marine engineers, in the centre Glory, standing on a ships prow holding two wreaths. She is crowning the 'martyrs of duty'.
Type: Memorial
Materials: Granite, bronze
Date Erected: 1914
Artists: Messrs Whitehead & Sons; Ferdinand Victor Blundstone; Romeo Rathmann
Vessel: RMS Titanic

People

Alsopp, Alfred Samuel
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior Electrician
Organisation: White Star Line
Andrews, Thomas
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Naval Architect
Organisation:
Bell, William Joseph
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Chief Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Chiswall, George Alexander
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior Boiler Maker
Organisation: White Star Line
Coy, Francis Edward George
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 3rd Assistant Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Creese, Henry Philip
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Deck Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Dodds, Renny Watson
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Duffy, William
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Clerk, Engineer Department
Organisation: White Star Line
Dyer, Henry Ryland
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior Assistant 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Ervine, Albert
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Assistant Electrician
Organisation: White Star Line
Farquharson, William E.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: 2nd Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Fitzpatrick, Hugh
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior Boiler Maker
Organisation: White Star Line
Fraser, James
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Fireman
Organisation: White Star Line
Frost, Archibald
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Harland & Wolff
Harrison, Norman
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 2nd Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Harvey, Herbert Gifford
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior Assitant 2nd Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Hesketh, J. H.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: White Star Line
Hodge, Charles
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior Assistant 3rd Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Hodgkinson, Leonard
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Hosking, George Fox
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior 3rd Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Jupe, Herbert
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Assistant Electrician
Organisation: White Star Line
Kelly, William
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Assistant Electician
Organisation: White Star Line
Kemp, Thomas
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Extra Assistant 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Knight, Robert
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Leading hand Engineer
Organisation: Harland & Wolff
Mackie, William Dixie
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 5th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
McReynolds, William M.E.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 6th Assistant Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Middleton, Alfred
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Assistant Electrician
Organisation: White Star Line
Millar, Robert
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Extra 5th Assistant Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Moyes, William Young
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior 6th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Parsons, Frank Alfred
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior 5th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Rous, Arthur A.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Plumber
Organisation: White Star Line
Shepherd, Jonathan
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: White Star Line
Sloan, Peter
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Chief Electrician
Organisation:
Smith, James M.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Ward, Arthur
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Junior Assistant 4th Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line
Wilson, B.
Age:
Date of Death: 15/4/1912
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Senior 2nd Assistant Engineer
Organisation: White Star Line

Extra

Notes: Unveiled on April 22 1914 by Sir Archibald Denny. Erected by subscription from the public and fellow engineers. Victor Blundstone is the sculptor and the figure of Victory is by Romeo Rathman.
Bibliography: Robert Douch 'Monuments and Memorials in Southampton' (Southampton, 1968); Brian Ticehurst 'The Titanic, Southamptons Memorials' (Poole, 1987) (illustration). 'Builder' 6 June 1913 p. 651.
Photographer: Barbara Tomlinson
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