Memorial: M6156

Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Happisburgh, Norfolk commemorating the Officers and Ship’s Company of the HMS Invincible that was shipwrecked off Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast on 16 March 1801

Location

St Mary's Church, Happisburgh, Norfolk, England

Transcript

‘On the 16 March 1801, HMS INVINCIBLE / was wrecked off Happisburgh when / on her way to join a fleet with / Admiral Nelson at Copenhagen. / The day following, the Ship sank with / the loss of some four hundred lives. / One hundred and nineteen members / of the Ship’s Company lie buried here.’ / / “And the sea gave up the dead / that were in it ...” / Revelation 20:13 // This memorial stone was given jointly / by the Parochial Church Council and / the Officers and Ship’s Company of HMS Invincible, 1998

Details

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Notes: HMS Invincible was a third rate British Navy ship with 74 guns. She set sail from Yarmouth with 650 on board, preparing to meet up with Admiral Sir Hyde Parker as part of the British attack on the Danish navy. She became stuck on a sandbank off the Happisburgh coast in high winds, and eventually sank with the loss of 400 officers and crew. The Rear-Admiral Thomas Totty, along with 195 survived. Totty was later cleared at a court martial.

The mass grave was rediscovered and a memorial stone lain by the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Invincible in 1988, together with the Happisburgh parochial church council.

Photographer: Pippa Lacey

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters