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Title
Merchant Navy Memorial
Date
2008
Medium
bronze & granite
Accession number
CT16_TR_S007
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Dover and District Merchant Navy Memorial Fund
Work type
War memorial
Owner
Dover District Council
Custodian
Dover District Council
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
3th September 2008
Access
at all times
Inscription description
front of plinth: IN REMEMBRANCE OF / MERCHANT NAVY SEAMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES / IN WORLD WAR II 1939-1945 / THEY SUSTAINED HEAVY LOSSES, / 1 IN 3 MERCHANT NAVY SEAMEN / DID NOT SURVIVE THE WAR. / MERCHANT NAVY SEAMEN KILLED 30,248 / MISSING 4,654 / WOUNDED 4,707 / PRISONER OF WAR 5,720 / TOTAL OF CASUALTIES 45,329 / Look out to sea and say a prayer / For those who rest beneath, / They gave their lives, that you may share / A Europe that is free. / Donald Hunter 2008; side of plinth: IN REMEMBRANCE OF / MERCHANT NAVY SEAMEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN / 'OPERATION NEPTUNE' / THE CODE NAME FOR THE D-DAY LANDINGS / JUNE 6TH TO SEPTEMBER 1944. / THE LARGE SEABORNE OPERATION TO LAND / AND SUPPLY OUR ARMIES IN NORMANDY, FRANCE. / ITS OBJECTIVE WAS TO FREE FRANCE / AND SO COMPLETE THE FIRST PHASE OF THE / 'LIBERATION OF EUROPE.' / ONE OF THESE CONVOY ROUTES / TO THE LANDING BEACHES / WAS FROM LONDON DOCKS VIA THE DOVER STRAITS / TO NORMANDY. / THE ENEMY ATTACKS ON THIS CONVOY ROUTE / ALONG THE FRENCH OCCUPIED & HEAVILY FORTIFIED / COAST TOOK HEAVY TOLL / IN THE LIVES OF MERCHANT SEAMEN; Incised letters to side of plinth: 'THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC' / THIS WAS THE LONGEST BATTLE OF WW II / WHICH LASTED FROM / SEPTEMBER 1939 UNTIL MAY 1945 / DURING THIS BATTLE THE MERCHANT NAVY / SUSTAINED THEIR HEAVIEST LOSSES OF SHIPS / AND THEIR CREWS. / IN REMEMBRANCE OF THOSE SEAMEN / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN ORDER / TO KEEP BRITAIN'S 'LIFELINE' OPEN / TO TRANSPORT TROOPS / AND VITAL WAR MATERIALS. / THEY PAID A HEAVY PRICE.; incised letters to rear of plinth: THIS MERCHANT NAVY WAR MEMORIAL / WAS FUNDED BY DONATIONS TO THE / DOVER & DISTRICT MERCHANT NAVY MEMORIAL FUND / IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MERCHANT NAVY SEAMEN / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR II. / FOUNDER AND FUND-RAISER: / DONALD HUNTER, LEGION D'HONNEUR M.N. (WW II) / SCULPTOR: VIVIEN MALLOCK
Marine Parade, Dover
CT16 1LH
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