Memorial Obelisk - South West Rocks, NSW
S 30° 52.991 E 153° 02.522
56J E 504017 N 6583343
This sandstone obelisk stands about 2 metres tall, and the original weathered inscription has been updated with metal plaques.
Waymark Code: WMXQC2
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 02/12/2018
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Sadly the original inscriptions have been weathered away. But, some brushed stainless plaques have been placed next to the obelisk, with as much transcription as was possible to decipher. The plaques read:
These plates record the inscriptions originally cut on the eastern
and northern faces of the monument. Where shown ...... the word
was not decipherable at the time of recording.
The recording was carried out by the Maritime Service Board and
recovered by the South West Rock Lions Club.
The plates were commissioned and fixed by Kempsey Shire Council
with the assistance of the South West Rock Lions Club and the
South West Rocks Ratepayers and Citizens Association.
February, 1982.
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Also as a mark of friendship for
Louis Laine
A native of Britanny France, Aged 25 years
Who drowned on the night of 2nd June 1864
and in remembrance of
Frederick Woodward Ellis
Aged 27 years
Who was drowned on the night of 2nd June 1864.
[On a separate, square plaque]
This obelisk has been erected by
Thomas Bubbard
John McElhone
Mary Jane Cullen
As a sorrowful mark of love for their very dear friend and adopted brother
Frederick Stephen White
Master of the Ketch Woolloomooloo
Who met with an untimely end by the destruction of the abovenamed vessel
on the beach a little to the northward of these rocks during the
fearful easterly gale on the night of
the 2nd of June 1864
in the 30th year of things
Which respected and deeply lamented
by all who knew him
Oh' never a tempest blew on the shore
But that same heart did grown [sic]
For a darling voice it would hear no more
And a face that had left it ......
And it how a mighty water flows
With drifts of wind and rumpled waves
But the darling heart of a dear dead
Is hidden beneath its caves.
Visited: 0820, Sunday, 30 April, 2017