Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Medina
- Town
- Ryde
- County
- Isle Of Wight
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 31st August 1965
Attended by: EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40849
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Current location
NEAR CORNWALL SLIP
Esplanade
Ryde
Medina
Isle Of Wight
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 599 927
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- (original) Bronze plaque with iluustration of ship to the right of the inscription. Small marble tablet below. The above placed on a small curving wall with figures of a lion at each end. (later plaque) Identical wording to original, but no illustration.
- Inscription
- MAIN PLAQUE: IN MEMORY/ OF/ THE MANY OFFICERS AND/ MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY &/ ROYAL MARINES, WHO LOST/ THEIR LIVES WHEN THE/ ROYAL GEORGE/ SANK AT SPITHEAD ON/ THE 29TH AUGUST 1732/ AND WHO LIE BURIED/ ALONG THIS SEAFRONT/ AND HERE BY FRIENDS/ UNKNOWN, UNMARKED/ UNWEPT, THEY REST SMALLER PLAQUE: UNVEILED BY/ EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA/ 31ST AUGUST 1965
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Royal George 1732
- WMO ID: 138254
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-05-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- 2006.Original plaque removed and added to Royal George (second memorial): see separate record. c2008-9 Replacement plaque added.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- MERYD015
- Isle of Wight Memorials www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/others/ryderoyalgeorge.htm
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