Memorial

Crew Members of H.M.S. Cleopatra

Source: Wadebridge Memories Group - Ryan Noble

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Current Location

St Breock., Wadebridge, North Cornwall, Cornwall, PL27 7JS, England

SW 97704 71722

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 85261
Description: Large wall mounted marble tablet set within a stone ogee arch. The tablet has a stone base, cornice and columned sides. The inscription is incised in black roman capitals. The ship was engaged in anti-slavery patrols. A memorial was also erected in Bombay Cathedral in 1853.
Inscription: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF/ MONTAGUE TREBY MOLESWORTH,/ A LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY,/ AND SECOND SON OF THE/ REVEREND WILLIAM MOLESWORTH,/ RECTOR OF THIS PARISH;/ AND ALSO OF/ (Names)/ SEAMAEN OF H. M. S. CLEOPATRA,/ WHO, WHILE ENGAGED IN THE EXECUTION OF THEIR DUTY,/ WERE BARBAROUSLY KILLED IN AN AFFRAY WITH THE/ NATIVES ON THE WESTERN COAST OF MADAGASCAR./ MARCH 23 1844./ THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECETED BY THEIR SHIPMATES,/ AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM FOR THEIR CHARACTERS/ AND REGRET FOR THEIR MELANCHOLY FATE.

Tablet

Made from: Marble

Condition: Good

Frame

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Sun (London) - Tuesday 09 December 1845 Page 2 THE LATE LIEUT. MOLESWORTH. --- Mr. Roe, the statuary of St. Sidwell's, Exeter, has just completed a very handsome mural tablet, in the form of an ornamental niche in the English style of architecture, and inclosin a marble slab, to the memory of Lieut. Molesworth and five seamen of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra,who were killed in March, 1844 by savages, off the coast of Madagascar. It will shortly erected in the church of St. Breock, in this county, of which Lieut. Molesworth's father is the rector. -- Devonport Independent.