Memorial Details
Memorial
Column Submariners 1914-18 Cemetery
Reference
B42.40
Place
BLYTH
Map ref
NZ 319790
Original Location
Blyth Cemetery, North eastern section, about 100 yards from the entrance gate.
Which war
1914-18
Memorial Description
Memorial with pillar 4 feet high in the form of the broken lower part of a mast, on a pedestal of rough stones, 6 feet high, mounted on two plain steps. Total height is 10 feet. At the base of the mast are incised the words "Sacred to the memory of" with ropes, an anchor and a lifebelt carved in relief. The quotation is incised into a panel below these, and underneath this is incised a profile of a submarine. The names are incised in sans serif capitals on one side of the two lower steps.
Materials used
Stone
Inscription
Sacred / to the / memory of / "They that go down / to the sea in ships / and occupy their / business in great / waters, these men see / the works of the Lord / and his wonders in / the deep." / Names / who were killed at sea on H.M.S. E.30 and (Name) H.M.S. Trident / Erected by their shipmates.
Names
Who commissioned
Shipmates of those who died.
Notes
1. HMS Trident of 3129 tons was sunk by torpedo from a submarine on 7th August 1917, 34 miles north by east from Dragonera Island, Majorca.
2. Submarine E30 of 805 tons was launched 29 June 1915, completed Dec. 1915. She was sunk in the North Sea off Harwich on 22 November 1916, cause unknown. The men named on this memorial were obviously killed in a later engagement.
3. All four men named on this memorial are buried in the cemetery.
2. Submarine E30 of 805 tons was launched 29 June 1915, completed Dec. 1915. She was sunk in the North Sea off Harwich on 22 November 1916, cause unknown. The men named on this memorial were obviously killed in a later engagement.
3. All four men named on this memorial are buried in the cemetery.
Newspaper cuttings, photos or archival material
Photos: Janet Brown
War Graves of the British Empire Durham, Newcastle and Northumberland
British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 Reprinted by Patrick Stephens Ltd.,
ISBN 0 85059 384 0
Source of quotation:
“They that go down to the sea in ships . . .” Psalm 107 v 23
War Graves of the British Empire Durham, Newcastle and Northumberland
British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 Reprinted by Patrick Stephens Ltd.,
ISBN 0 85059 384 0
Source of quotation:
“They that go down to the sea in ships . . .” Psalm 107 v 23
External web link
Research acknowledgements
The late R.W. Gould; the late Jack Tait (Blyth L.H.S.); Janet Brown
Research In Progress
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Column Submariners 1914-18 Cemetery (B42.40)
BLYTH, Cemetery. Submariners' memorial.
On column
Sacred
to the
memory
of
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On pedestal
"They that go down
to the sea in ships
and occupy their
business in great
waters, these men see
the works of the Lord
and his wonders in
the deep". Psalm cvii.23, 24.
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On step
Robert Larcombe, P.O. Tel., aged 32 years.
Edward A. Howard, A.B., R.F.R., aged 28 years
John Smith, Sto., aged 23 years
who were killed at sea on H.M.S. E.30. April 7th 1916.
Also of George J. Lyons, P.O.Sto., H.M.S. Trident
who died April 29th 1916, aged 40 years.
Erected by their shipmates.
NamesB42.40
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