HMS Thunderer Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2016. Memorial.
HMS Thunderer Memorial
- WRENN ID
- kindled-pediment-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gosport
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2016
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Memorial and grave marker to a fatal explosion on board HMS Thunderer, 1876.
MATERIALS and PLAN: a square limestone slab, square pink granite plinth, and marble base and shaft.
DESCRIPTION: the memorial is an obelisk that stands on a stepped granite plinth, rising to an inscribed pedestal with a moulded shoulder at the junction with the shaft. It is inscribed with applied metal lettering: ‘THIS MONUMENT WHICH STANDS ON THE GRAVES / OF / MESS. TC SLADE CHIEF ENGINEER RN / AND ROBERT WINFIELD ENGINEER RN / IS ERECTED BY BROTHER OFFICERS / FELLOW WORKMEN AND FRIENDS / TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO LOST THEIR / LIVES THROUGH THE EXPLOSION OF A BOILER / ON BOARD HMS THUNDERER AT SPITHEAD ON JULY 14TH 1876. / THE GREATER PART OF WHOM ARE BURIED IN / THE GRAVES ADJOINING THIS MONUMENT.’
The other three faces list the names of the dead, ordered by rank and role. The granite plinth is signed with the name of the masons, White Bros.
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