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H. M. S. DOTEREL
Memorial Plaque / Placa Recordatoria
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich
photo / foto (National Maritime Museum)
[marble plaque,
with the vessel in bas-relief] SACRED to the memory of one hundred and forty-three officers and men of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines who were lost in H.M.S. Doterel on the 26th of April 1881 when she was sunk while at anchor off Sandy Point in the Straits of Magellan by an explosion of her fore-magazine. OFFICERS LOST: Wm. Carmichael Forrest, senior lieutenant; Arthur R. MacDonnell Creagh, lieutenant; Septimus Evans, staff surgeon; William Reid, chief engineer; William Ord, engineer; Charles Mitchell Irving, clerk; Jeremiah Driscoll, gunner; William Maddick Taylor, boatswain. "The sea gave up the dead which were in it." |
[placa de mármol,
con relieve de la Doterel] CONSAGRADO a la memoria de ciento cuarenta y tres oficiales y personal de la Marina Real y de los infantes de marina que perdieron su vida en H.M.S. Doterel al 26 de abril de 1881 cuando se hundió al ancla en Punta Arenas en el Estrecho de Magallanes debido a una explosión de su santabárbara de proa. OFICIALES DESAPARECIDOS: W. M. Carmichael Forrest, teniente primero; Arthur R. MacDonnell Creagh, teniente; Septimus Evans, médico cirujano; William Reid, ingeniero jefe; William Ord, ingeniero; Charles Mitchell Irving, contador; Jeremiah Driscoll, artillero; William Maddick Taylor, contramaestre. "El mar entregó a la muerte a los que estaban en él." |