Memorial: M6332

Brass plaque at St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating midshipmen of HMS ‘Warspite’ drowned in a canoe accident in 1891

Location

St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY / READ ADMIRAL HOTHAM, / CAPTAIN LAMBTON, AND OFFICERS OF / H.M.S. "WARSPITE" / TO THE MEMORY OF / RALPH CALDWELL / BORN JUNE 21ST 1874: / HONBLE ARTHUR A. MONTMORENCY / BORN OCTOBER 25TH 1874: / PERCIVAL A.H. BROWN, / BORN MARCH 7TH 1874: / DOUGLAS C. JOHNSTONE, / BORN FEBRUARY 19TH 1874: / MIDSHIPMEN OF H.M.S. WARSPITE / WHO WERE DROWNED AT ESQUIMAULT / JULY 17TH 1891 / 'OURS ARE THE TEARS, THOUGH FEW, SINCERELY SHED, / WHEN OCEAN SHROUDS AND SEPULCHRES OUR DEAD.'

Details

Description: Tablet with a border of oak leaves, a naval crown and foul anchor above the inscription. The upper corners are filled with a design of olive branches.
Type: Plaque
Materials: Brass
Artists: Matthew
Vessel: HMS Warspite

People

Brown, Percival A.H.
Age: 16
Date of Death: 17/7/1891
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Caldwell, Ralph
Age: 16
Date of Death: 17/7/1891
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy
de Montmorency, Arthur A.
Age: 17
Date of Death: 17/7/1891
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy
Johnstone, Douglas C.
Age: 16
Date of Death: 17/7/1891
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: The four midshipman drowned in a boat accident, during shore leave involving two locally-purchased canoes. There is another memorial to them in the form of a free-standing granite cross at Esquimalt, Canada.
Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters