Copper on wood. Model anchor fashioned from copper retrieved from the wreck of HMS Eurydice, the base inset with a plaque inscribed: 'H.M.D. Eurydice. 26 Guns / Capt. Marcus Hare / Foundered off Dunnose IoW March 24th 1878 / 358 Souls Perished'.
H.M.S. Eurydice (named for Apollo’s third daughter, wife of Orpheus) was a 26-gun Royal Navy corvette which was the victim of one of Britain's worst peace-time naval disasters when she sank in 1878. Eurydice was caught in a heavy snow storm off the Isle of Wight, capsized and sank. Only two of the ship's 319 crew and cadets survived, most of those who were not carried down with the ship died of exposure in the freezing waters. One of the witnesses to the disaster was a young Winston Churchill, who was living at Ventnor with his family at the time.