Master of the Sloop

In Bosham church yard this afternoon, came across a gravestone we haven't noticed before. It tells a story.


In memory of
THOMAS  son of RICHARD and ANN
BARROW  Master of the sloop TWO
BROTHERS who by the Breaking of the
Horse fell into the sea and drowned
October the 13th 1759 aged 23 years 

Tho Boreas’s storms and Neptunes waves
have tos’d me to and fro
Yet I at length by God’s decree
am harboured here below
Where at an anchor here I lay
With many of our fleet
Yet once again I shall set sail      
My saviour Christ to meet.