A Portland stone sculpture depicting various naval artefacts carved in memory of those who died on HMS 'Eurydice'. The 'Eurydice' was 26-gun naval corvette built in 1843 for operation in shallow waters. Its light draught made it inherently unstable but it operated fairly successfully until 1857. In 1861 it became a harbour-service training ship until being refitted as a seagoing one in 1877 and going out to Bermuda. On 28th March 1878, at the end of a fast passage home, it was caught in a snow-storm off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, and capsized and sank rapidly in Sandown Bay. Of 319 crew and trainees on board only two survived: those not carried down in the ship died in the freezing water and the loss was one of the Navy's worst peacetime disasters. Seven of the bodies recovered are buried under the monument in Shanklin cemetery, a few others elsewhere. The wreck was raised and broken up later in 1878.