Merchant Navy Seamen

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Reference WMO/110294

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Harbour Drive

Waterfront Park

Cardiff

CF10 4PZ

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Iron
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Falklands Conflict (1982)
About the memorial: The Cardiff Merchant Seaman's memorial sculpture in the form of a sleeping face within a ship's hull was commissioned by Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, Merchant Navy Memorial Committee and Cardiff County Council in 1994. The memorial is set in a circular mosaic created in 1997 by Louise Shenstone and Adrian Butler. Inscribed around edge of the mosaic. 'Tiger Bay and Butetown provided a high proportion of Cardiff's merchant seamen and in 1994, the Merchant Navy Memorial Committee began campaigning for a monument to the many killed in war. Brought up on his father's stories of life as a wartime merchant seafarer, Brian Fell sought out Britain's last hydraulic riveting workshop and learnt this disappearing skill in order to 'seam' steel sections into the sculpture's two distinct aspects - a timeless face and beached ship's hull.' The memorial won the Lord Mayor's Civic Award 1997.
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A half mooring bollard nearby bears the following inscription: Merchant Seafarers' War Memorial (1997) This memorial commemorates the merchant seamen who sailed from the ports of Cardiff, Penarth and Barry during the Second World War, never to return. This plaque is installed in the memory of William Henke MBE (1918-2000), President of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales), whose personal endeavours secured this memorial. The memorial was funded through donations from Cardiff Bay Development Corporation, Cardiff County Council, Grosvenor Waterside and many private donors and is adopted by Peter Haines of Amethyst Marine Services Artist: Brian Fell Mosaic: Louise Shenstone and Adrian Butler The project was commissioned through CBAT the Arts and Regeneration Agency.

William Henke MBE

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