SACRED TO THE MEMORY
OF
COMMANDER W.G.B. ESTCOURT
Late in command of Her Majesty's steam sloop ECLAIR who died on 16th September 1845 aged 38 years
on passage from Bona Vista to Madeira, from fever, contracted on the coast of Africa while employed in the suppression of the
SLAVE TRADE
HIS BROTHER OFFICERS AND FRIENDS
to whom he had become endeared by his many virtues have erected this
TABLET
to record the deep sense of their loss, and perpetuate the memory of his worth
with COMMANDER ESCOURT, perished 65 Officers and Men in the short period of two months
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"Is this not the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke"       Isaiah 58.6