Memorial: M6011

Wall tablet in St Nicholas’s Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk commemorating Rebecca Cooper and Thomas Cooper Sarjant d. 1838 in the loss of the ‘Protector’

Location

St Nicholas's Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England

Transcript

'This Tablet / IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF / MRS. REBECCA COOPER, / BORN IN THE TOWN OF LYNN REGIS, NORFOLK, / 18TH NOVEMBER 1797, / BY HER AFFECTIONATE AND SORROWING HUSBAND / MR J. D. COOPER / MASTER PILOT IN THE H.C. MARINE. / ALSO HER SON THOMAS COOPER SARJANT. / AGED EIGHT YEARS, / WHO WERE DROWNED WHILE ON THEIR PASSAGE / FROM ENGLAND, ON BOARD THE SHIP / PROTECTOR, / WHICH WAS WRECKED OFF THE SAND HEADS / DURING A SEVERE GALE ON THE 19TH OCT. 1838 / WHEN ALL HER PASSENGERS AND CREW / (SEVEN EXCEPTED) PERISHED / She is not dead; but sleepeth. LUKE VIII 52 / Blessed are the dead, which die in the LORD, / from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit; that / they may rest from their labours, and their / works do follow them. REV. XIV 13’ James THOMPSON, FORT WILLIAM

Details

Description: A carved panel above the inscription showing the hull of the wrecked ship amid waves.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: End of the nave, south side
Materials: Marble
Artists: James Thompson
Vessel: Protector

People

Cooper, Rebecca
Age: 40
Date of Death: 19/10/1838
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Unknown
Sarjant, Thomas Cooper
Age: 8
Date of Death: 19/10/1838
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Passenger
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters