Monument to Captain James Hanson, Church Hill, Newhaven, East Sussex
The memorial to Captain James Hanson and the crew of HMS Brazen was put up in the churchyard in 1800. The Obelisk has a design of seaweed and shells above, with dolphins below. The slate panels on the plinth are inscribed with the details of the wreck of HMS Brazen. It foundered off the cliffs of Newhaven on the night of January 20th, 1800, with the loss of all lives save one. The bodies of Captain Hanson and 75 of the 104 men lost are buried in the graveyard. Hanson had served under Captain Vancouver on his celebrated voyage of 1791-4, when he circumnavigated the world and charted part of North America. Many of the place names given then remain, but Hanson Point has been destroyed.
