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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Brook : St Mary the Virgin Church : RNLI plaque 3 : SV Sirenia, Reuben Cooper -

Location

In St Mary the Virgin Church, Brook
 
Description and history

Wooden board inscribed with details of shipwreck

See also

RNLI Plaque 1
RNLI Plaque 2
RNLI Plaque 4
RNLI Plaque 5
Memorial

Brook St Mary RNLI plaque 3
 
Inscription


R.N.L.I.
----
In memory of REUBEN COOPER
1822 - 1888. Second Coxswain of the
Brook Lifeboat, William Slaney Lewis.
Lost overboard in raging seas on
March 10th 1888, when going to
the rescue of S.V. SIRENIA, bound
from San Francisco to Dunkirk,
which struck the Atherfield Ledge
in thick fog.


 
 

 
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