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From: "Ted Finch" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] Where was the Captain buried?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:10:33 +0100
References: <008f01c41c67$ed675d40$d263bcc1@dbroper>


Val,

I agree with other replies that he would have been buried ashore. On one
ship I was on, the first trip galley boy died of pneumonia and he was taken
ashore for burial.

regards
Ted

----- Original Message -----
From: "dbroper" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 7:15 AM
Subject: [Mar] Where was the Captain buried?


> I have received a newspaper article of 1880, about a Captain Thomas Dodd
> FENWICK who died of fever, actually in Lagos, Nigeria after visiting the
> doctor there. The chief officer took command, died 10 days later and was
> buried at sea. No mention was made of the Captain being buried at sea, so
I
> am assuming he was buried in Lagos.
>
> There is a memorial stone in the family plot in Co.Durham UK but I cannot
> think he is actually buried there. (1880!)
>
> I have googled till I'm blue in the face but am unable to find any
> graveyards or missions of that era in Lagos.
>
> Anyone had a similar problem and knows where to look for mariners dying in
> foreign ports?
>
> Val Roper in Bahrain
>
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