Memorial: M4978

Memorial in Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire commemorating the crew of HMS ‘Euridice’ which foundered on 24 March 1878

Location

Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire, England

Transcript

{on rock] 'FOUNDERED / SUNDAY 24 MARCH / 1878' [on base] ‘AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT REV. XX.13 / MY GOD IN THE ROCK OF REFUGE PSA. XCV.22 / I WILL BRING MY PEOPLE AGAIN FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA PSA. LVVIII. 22 / WHICH HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL HEB. VI. 19’

Details

Description: Iron anchor on a rock. The names of the 318 casualties inscribed on the polished granite plinth. See https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/49844 for list.

Type: Memorial
Materials: Granite, iron
Vessel: HMS Eurydice

Extra

Notes: The second HMS 'Eurydice' was launched in 1843, again a 24 gun post ship, yet foundered in 1878. The sinking of HMS 'Eurydice' in 1878 remains one of the Royal Navy's worst peace-time disasters - about 190 lives were lost

The hull was raised later in the same year but the ship had to be broken up.
Bibliography: E.H. Verney 'The last four days of the Eurydice' (Portsmouth, 1879) pp. 56-63 (list of ship's company).
Photographer: B. Tomlinson 2023

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters