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Set on three circular tiers, or steps, is a short, domed column, suggesting a ship’s binnacle. The second tier has triangular bronze plates presenting sixteen points of the compass. A bronze collar at the top of the central column displays the inscription. The top tier comprises four stone segments, the middle eight, and the lowest tier sixteen segments.

Title

Memorial to Merchant Seafarers

Date

2001 or before

Medium

Tarn stone & bronze

Measurements

H 145 x W 110 x D (?) cm

Accession number

BS1_PF_S063

Acquisition method

commissioned Merchant Navy Association of Bristol

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Merchant Navy Association of Bristol

Custodian

Merchant Navy Association of Bristol

Work status

extant

Unveiling date

21 May 2001

Access

at all times

Inscription description

inscription in raised Roman lettering cast in bronze on one side of the central column: MERCHANT SEAMEN / IN WAR AND PEACE THEY PLIED THEIR TRADE / OVER THE ANGRY SEAS / REMEMBER THEM AS HERE YOU STAND / BENEATH THESE PLACID TREES. / CAPT. J. EARL / JUNE 2000: inscribed on the opposite side: THIS MEMORIAL IS A TRIBUTE TO / ALL MERCHANT SEAFARERS WHO SAILED / TO AND FROM BRISTOL / THROUGHOUT THE AGES; on a separate bronze plaque in the new granite setts: 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 HARBOUR SIDE / 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 H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ROYAL / ON 21ST MAY 2001; a more recent, larger and upright memorial stone is similarly, but not identically inscribed.

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