Blyth submariners memorial-HMS E30 and HMS Trident

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Reference WMO/231058

Address:

Blyth Cemetery

Blyth

NE24 3PJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: 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.
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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 APRIL 7TH 1916/ ALSO OF/ (name)/ ERECTED BY THEIR SHIPMATES

Robert Larcombe Edward A Howard John Smith George J Lyons - anomaly with this entry, states HMS Trident died 29th April 1916 aged 40 years, HMS Trident was a WW2 T Class boat -Navy The Royal Navy Type Submarine Class T Pennant N 52 Mod First Group Built by Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) Ordered 6 Nov 1936 Laid down 12 Jan 1937 Launched 7 Dec 1938 Commissioned 1 Oct 1939 End service 20 Nov 1945 History Paid off into reserve on 20 November 1945 Scrapped at Newport starting on 11 February 1946.

Grade II (England)

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