Memorial in Newhaven, East Sussex commemorating Captain James Hanson and the officers of HMS ‘Brazen’ lost 1800,
Location
St Michael's Church, Newhaven, East Sussex
Transcript
[SE Face] ‘THE FRIENDS OF CAPTN. HANSON / CAUSED THIS MONUMENT / TO BE ERECTED / AS A MARK OF THEIR ESTEEM / FOR A DESERVING OFFICER / AND A VALUABLE FRIEND. / IT WAS THE WILL OF HEAVEN / TO PRESERVE HIM DURING FOUR YEARS VOYAGE / OF DANGER AND DIFFICULTY / ROUND THE WORLD / ON DISCOVERIES WITH CAPTN. VANCOUVER / IN THE YEARS 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 / BUT TO TAKE HIM FROM US / WHEN MOST HE THOUGHT HIMSELF SECURE. / “The voice of the Lord is upon the waters” [SW Face] ‘NAMES OF THE OFFICERS LOST / JAMES HANSON ESQ / COMMANDER JAMES COOK / LIEUTS / JOHN DENBRY / PATRICK VENABLES / MIDSHIPMAN / JAMES HANWELL / JOHN BRAUGH PURSER / ROBERT HILL SURGEON / THOMAS WHITFIELD BOATSWAIN ROBERT AALDER YARIE [?] GUNNER / JOHN TEAGUE CARPENTER’ [Panel NW Face] ‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY / OF / CAPTN. JAMES HANSON / THE OFFICERS AND COMPANY / OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BRAZEN; / WHO WERE WRECKED / IN A VIOLENT STORM / UNDER THE CLIFF / BEARING FROM THE PLACE S.W. / AT 5 O’CLOCK AM JANRY. 20TH A.D. 1800 / ONE OF THE CREW ONLY SURVIVING / TO TELL THE MELANCHOLY TALE, / BY THIS FATAL EVENT, THE COUNTRY, ALAS! WAS DEPRIVED, / OF 105 BRAVE DEFENDERS AT A TIME, WHEN IT / MOST REQUIRED THEIR ASSISTANCE. / THE REMAINS OF MANY OF THEM / WERE INTERRED NEAR THIS SPOT / BY THE DIRECTION OF THE ADMIRALTY. / “The waters saw Thee O God”. [Panel NE Face] ‘THE BRAZEN HAD BEEN ORDERED TO PROTECT / THIS PART OF THE COAST / FROM THE INSOLENT ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY; / AND ON THE EVENING / PROCEEDING THE / SAD CATASTROPHE, / HAD DETAINED A FOREIGN VESSEL WHICH / WAS PUT UNDER THE CARE OF / THE MASTER’S MATE, A MIDSHIPMAN / 8 SEAMEN AND 2 MARINES; / WHO WERE THEREBY SAVED / FROM THE FATE OF THEIR COMPANIONS.’ [On top step of base, facing SE in lead letters ‘THIS MONUMENT WAS RESTORED BY / LOUISA / WIDOW OF THE ABOVE CAPTN JAMES HANSON, RN /OCTOBER 1878’.
Details
Type: Obelisk
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Ashlar
Vessel: HMS Brazen
People
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Captain
Organisation: Royal Navy
Cook, James
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Commander
Organisation: Royal Navy
Denbry, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Navy
Venables, Patrick
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hanwell, James
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Midshipman
Organisation: Royal Navy
Brough, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Purser
Organisation: Royal Navy
Hill, Robert
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Surgeon
Organisation: Royal Navy
Whitfield, Thomas
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Boatswain
Organisation: Royal Navy
Yawrie, Robert Alder
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Gunner
Organisation: Royal Navy
Teague, John
Age: unknown
Date of Death: 20/1/1800
Cause of Death: vessel loss
Rank / Occupation: Carpenter
Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Recorder: See biblio.