How you can use this image

This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).

Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.

The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.

Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.

Notes

Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.

A square stone column with a moulded cockleshell on its top and a plaque attached to its base. The adjacent gardens were the former training base for the Cockleshell Heroes. Shipwrights Way is a long distance route which links villages and towns in east Hampshire, the sculpture is one of a series of 20 stone sculptures commissioned for the route on themes suggested by the public.

Title

Cockleshell Heroes Memorial

Date

c.2014

Medium

Portland stone

Accession number

PO4_MP_S054

Acquisition method

commissioned for the Shipwrights Way

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Hampshire County Council

Custodian

Hampshire County Council

Work status

extant

Access

at all times

Inscription description

plaque on sculpture: The Shipwrights Way / This sculpture commemorates the 'Cockleshell Heroes'. / During World War 2, thirteen Royal Marines volunteered for what they / knew would be a dangerous mission. The men trained here, at the fort / in front of you (now the Rose Gardens) and on the sea behind you, / using collapsible canoes nicknamed 'cockles'. When the time was / right, they travelled across the channel by submarine HMS Tuna and / then canoed over 100 miles to Bordeaux harbour under cover of / darkness, where they successfully mined the enemy's supply ships; wall mounted plaque: THE COCKLESHELL HEROES / This plaque provided by Portsmouth City Council was unveiled by Marine Bill Sparks DSM / on 6th July 1992. In the presence of the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth Councillor Jim Patey / and the Chairman of the Leisure Committee Councillor Syd Rapson BEM / to mark the 50th Anniversary of this site which was used as a training base / for the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment, formed on 6th July 1942. / This secret unit trained on the Solent for raids by canoe (Cockles) on Europe. / The most famous raid was on German shipping in Bordeaux docks / On 11th December 1942 by ten members of RMBPD, only two of these Cockleshell Heroes returned. (Names)

Read less