Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Medina
- Town
- Ryde
- County
- Isle Of Wight
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 2006
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Dedicated
Date: 27 August 2006
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Unknown
Date: June 2004
Attended by: UNKNOWN - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 60159
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Current location
Memorial garden
Esplanade
Ryde
Medina
Isle Of Wight
England
OS Grid Ref: SZ 590 920
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Bronze plaque, with illustration of ship to right of inscription. Three display panels in wooden frame.
- Inscription
- (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. (display boards): see file.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Board
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Unknown - Frame
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood
- 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
- History
- Late 2006: plaque from (Our ref. 40849) added.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Isle of Wight Memorials www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/others/ryderoyalgeorge2.htm
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