TAVERNOR, EDMUND G

Subject: TAVERNOR, EDMUND G Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:45 pm

TAVERNOR, EDMUND G

HMS Atalanta Lost At Sea 1880

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The HMS Atalanta was built in 1844 as the 26-gun frigate HMS Juno. She was converted into a training ship and on January 10, 1878, renamed HMS Mariner and on January 22, 1878, HMS Atalanta. On January 31, 1880, she sailed from Bermuda to Portsmouth, only to vanish in the Atlantic with 290 cadets and officers. She is presumed lost in a storm.

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Reference: ADM 188/73/80662
Description:
Name Tavenor, Edmund George
Official Number: 80662
Place of Birth: Cheriton, Kent
Date of Birth: 18 January 1858
Date: [1873]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew

Image taken at St Martins Church, Hornstreet, Folkestone, Kent.

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Subject: Re: TAVERNOR, EDMUND G Sat Feb 21, 2015 10:21 pm

The whole transcript.

"Transcript

'...Also of/EDMUND GEORGE TAVENOR/son of the above/who was lost at sea/on H.M.S. Atlanta 1880/We cannot bend beside his grave/For he sleeps in the secret sea/And not one gently whispering wave/Will tell the place to me/But though unseen by human eyes/Though mortals know it not/His Father knoweth where he lies/And angels guard the spot"

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