Vessel Loss

Memorial: M819

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Sub-Lieutenant Robert Scovell Evatt d. 1870 in the wreck of HMS ‘Slaney’

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Robert Scovell Evatt, Navigating Sub-Lieut R.N. drowned serving H.M.S. SLANEY wrecked in the China Sea 9 May 1870 age 25'

Details

Vessel: HMS Slaney

People

Evatt, Robert Scovell
Age: 25
Date of Death: 9/5/1870
Cause of Death: Vessel Loss
Rank / Occupation: Navigating Sub Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: From an MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 6, p. 911. HMS 'Slaney was wrecked in a typhoon near Hong Kong.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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