Merchant Navy Memorial

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Reference WMO/141538

Address:

Welsh Back

Bristol

BS1 4SS

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Other monument
Materials:
  • Metal Brass
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Complex, multi-part memorial to the Bristol merchant ships lost in the two World Wars, on a standing stone tablet, which sits in front of a massive stone compass memorial, which in turn is surrounded by a sinuous metal bench, to which are attached memorial plaques to many merchant seamen of Bristol, including many who fell during the world wars, and one plaque commemorating the unknown merchant seaman.
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Brass collar: MERCHANT SEAMEN/ IN WAR AND PEACE THEY PLIED THEIR TRADE/ OVER THE ANGRY SEAS/ REMEMBER THEM AS HERE YOU STAND/ BENEATH THESE PLACID TREES Other side: THIS MEMORIAL IS A TRIBUTE TO/ ALL MERCHANT SEAFARERS WHO HAVE SAILED/ TO AND FROM BRISTOL/ THROUGHOUT THE AGES Plaque: IN 1996 A SMALL GROUP OF LOCAL SEAFARERS FOUNDED/ THE BRISTOL BRANCH OF THE MERCHANT NAVY ASSOCIATION./ ONE OF ITS AIMS WAS TO CREATE A MEMORIAL AT THE HARBOURSIDE/ TO THOSE SEAFARERS WHO HELPED TO BRING PEACE AND PROSPERITY TO THIS GREAT CITY./ IN THE YEAR 2000 DAVID BACKHOUSE FRBS RWA/ WAS COMMISSIONED TO CREATE THE MEMORIAL/ WHICH WAS UNVEILED BY HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL/ ON 21ST MAT 2001.

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