HMS Eurydice Memorial is a Grade II* listed building in the Gosport local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2016. Memorial.

HMS Eurydice Memorial

WRENN ID: scarred-vestry-hawk
Grade: II*
Local Planning Authority: Gosport
Country: England
Date first listed: 5 February 2016
Type: Memorial
Source: Historic England listing

Description

Memorial to a foundered ship, 1878.

MATERIALS and PLAN: a dressed grey granite base, rectangular in plan, with a limestone sculpture into which the ship’s anchor is set.

DESCRIPTION: there is a sloping granite plinth which bears the names of the 362 dead. Above this is a substantial model of a rock with a facet incised ‘FOUNDERED / SUNDAY MARCH 9 / 1878’, and the ship’s anchor set upon it. The four sides of the base of the sculpture are inscribed with Bible passages: ‘I WILL BRING MY PEOPLE AGAIN FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. PSA LXVII:22 / WHICH HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR OF THE SOUL. HEB VI:19 / AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT. REV XX:13 / MY GOD IS THE ROCK OF MY REFUGE. PSA XCIV:22’.

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