Memorial Ship-disaster 'Queen'

The transport ship 'Queen' arrived in Carrick Roads on 10 January 1814 from Lisbon. On 14 January 1814, she brook loose in the middle of the night in a violent storm and became a total wreck at Trefusis Point. Over 350 people: soldiers, seaman and many of their family members, and 6 French prisoners of war, perished. They are buried in a variety of local churchyards, where they were washed up in due course.
Elsewhere in Mylor Churchyard is a gravestone to the wife and five children of Lieutenant Robert Daniell of 30th Regiment, all of whom perished leaving only Lieutenant Daniell, one of the very few to survive.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Stuart Nicholson