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Below are some photos taken at the small naval cemetery on the north shore of Mahon Harbour.
It contains sailors of both the US and Royal Navy from the 19th century, and also at least one German national
and at least one female American. Details of the names, ships and dates below
Mahon Naval Cemetery, Menorca, Spain
Jesse (surname unknown)
Quartermaster, USN. USS Constitution; died on board, August
14th, 1818. age 32
(tablet partly missing and cracked)
Robert Alberger
Seaman, USS Delaware; 1843
William Brown
"Beneath are deposited the remains of...
Seaman, HMS Tyne, age 19yrs
Drowned
by the upsetting of a raft in the harbour of Mahon, 30 June, ????.
John Brown
Seaman, USS Java; 1832
Karl von Bunson
SMS Kaiser; 28 March, 1890
Henry Butler
USS Cumberland
Joseph Cooper
born Ipswich, (probably Joseph James Cooper, March qtr, 1858 )
January
18, 1879, age 20 yrs
John Croft (Craft?)
"Sacred to the memory of....an armourer late of the USS Delaware,
native of New York; May 7th, 1829 age 31.
"The sweet remembrance of the just shall
flourish when they sleep in dust."
"This monument erected to his memory by his messmates"
Edward Elton
USN
Edward Gaynor
(name only -
Adam Gillis
USS Delaware; native of Ireland
Inscription partly deciphered as follows:
"slammed
between the funnel of the..........gallant mast rigger....in consequence ......of
the mast rope..........
while sending up the top g.... masts, was thus killed Oct
21, 1843 aged 23."
"Far away from your friends and dear home
you sleep on an old fathom
pillow
with some sorrow we leave you alone
and sign our ...well o'billow"
David Horton
USS North Carolina, 1825
Silas Howard
Seaman, USS Delaware; 30 November, 1828
Mary Griffith Hunter
wife of USN sailor, 1870
Lester Johnson
USN
Henry Jones
Quartermaster, USS North Carolina, 1826
John Landsley
USN
James M. Lee
App 1CL, USS Delaware; October 30, 1843
Samuel Morton
Capt of Forecastle, USN. USS Delaware, 1843
William Mulloy
seaman, USS Delaware, 1829
John Smith Patterson
Acting Master, USN; USS Frigate Congress, 1824
Archibald Renny
British Vice-
1 November, 1863, age 42 yrs
Jacob Shane
USS Delaware, March ??, 1843
(only small piece of inscription)
Thomas Smothers
USN, Quartermaster, age 29, 24th September 1829, native of Salem,
Mass.
Benjamin Zell
"In sacred memory of....died 19 September 1849
in 24th year of his age,Native
of Philadelphia,
Seaman aboard USS Delaware."
"Peace be to his ashes."
"Shipmates as
you pass by.......you are now so once was.....I am now so once was,
I am now so you
must be,,,are for death and follow me.
monument is erected to his memory........................mess-
"Dedicated to the memory of our fallen shipmates
by the destroyermen of USS Carney
(DDG-
Plaque on rear of gate.