This tablet commemorates the Admiralty's (somewhat belated) apology for the murder of two quarrymen (Alexander Andrews and RIck Flann) and one Blacksmith (William Lano), when they were attempted to be illegally impressed on the Isle of Portland in Dorset on the 2nd April 1803. Both the subjects for impressment (non-seafarers) and the raid itself were illegal. A young lady, Mary Way was also murdered, attested to in the local court records of the time.