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(Archive of pre 2006 updates) January 2006 - `Site map' page added; information on memorial to Arthur Hill, Ryde; George Habens, Thomas Kernan and Francis Merryman added to Descendants Memories; words in memorial in Meonstoke church added; further details to memorial entry for Sutton, Beds, added; information on National Maritime Museum, Greenwich added, including information on their Historic Photographs & Ship Plans Section; notes on possible further survivor, T Jeffery added. February 2006 - Memorabilia items added - binnacle bolt, photo/memorial card and Relief Fund Concert programme May 2006 - Survivor James May's book quoted at some length February 2007 - Painted ostrich egg added to Memorabilia section; copy of cover of published Court Martial document added; Survivors listing page revamped with photo added; photos of Cowper Coles and Hugh Burgoyne replaced, together with letter from Burgoynes' widow; report from The Graphic on the May 1870 trials; publication "An Authentic Account" included in Other Publications section; further information on `survivor' Thomas Jeffery August 2007 - Memorabilia section - added picture of piece of survivors' boat fashioned as book. Some tidying up of the Times reports and letters, including transferring the Widows and Orphans Fund information to its own chapter in the `Story' section; but no new information added. October 2007 - Thomas Butcher added to Descendants' Memories; memorial to Hugh Talbot Burgoyne in Brompton Cemetery added to Listing of Memorials February 2008 - Further information on Captain's flags at Hoxne. April 2008 - Information added in the Survivors - Conundrum section relating to Robert Mayne, additional survivor. August 2008 - reports from rest of fleet searching for Captain; personal letter from officer on board HMS Inconstant at time of disaster; private letter from survivor James May added; Times report on Princess Eugenie's escape; newspaper reports on individual survivors stories; text for Further Survivors updated; additional item added to Story - the Specification for the Captain February 2009 - John Collier added to Descendants' Memories; notes added to the Further Research page concerning charitable schools in Greenwich. Also new section listing known orphanages that took in some of the lost men's children. Note on memorial in Chevening Church, Kent. Notes added to `Building' section on Lairds shipbuilders. December 2009 - John Bremner added to Descendants' Memories. February 2010 - corrections to Sir Hugh Childer's title (The Main Characters); title page picture changed; Descendants Memories of Robert Herd added and note added to Survivors group photo; additional information on the Orphan Working School ; family story on Henry Mothersole supposed to be on board but wasn't; ex-RN sailor's thoughts on ships' stability. (Back to Home page)
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HMS Captain
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