Jack Crawford

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Reference WMO/290258

Address:

Mowbray Park

Burdon Road

Sunderland

SR1 1QB

England

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Figure sculpture
Conflicts:
  • Revolutionary/Napoleonic (1792-1815)
About the memorial: This memorial commemorates Jack Crawford and his part in the battle of Camperdown. At the height of the combat, the colours and signal flags on Venerable were brought down by cannon fire. To ensure that there was no suggestion that the flagship had surrendered, Jack Crawford scrambled to the top of the mainmast and replaced them as the battle raged beneath him.
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Jack Crawford The hero of Camperdown. The sailor who so-heroically nailed Admiral Duncan's, flag to the main-top-gallant-mast of H.M.S. Venerable in the glorious action off Camperdown, on October 11th 1797, Jack Crawford was born in the Pottery Bank Sunderland 1775, and died in his native town 1831, aged 56 years. Erected by public subscription.

Jack Crawford

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