Memorial

Liverpool Pier Head - Merchant Navy WW2 and WW1

Merchant Navy WW2 Stone of Remembrance

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George's Parade, Pier Head, Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 1BY, England

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SJ 33985 90310

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Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Stone of remembrance
WMR Reference Number: 15255
Description: Portland stone Stone of Remembrance on a square base. With gilded incised inscriptions on black marble tablets on the landward and seaward faces. Relief of the Merchant Navy badge at the top of the seaward face, relief of a ship, bow on, underway at the top of the landward face. Gilded laurel wreathes in relief on the side faces. The inscriptions were originally incised directly onto the face of the stone, but eroded in the salt air and have been replaced with the marble tablets. The memorial stands in a group of Naval memorials along the river wall South of the Mersey Ferries terminal building.
Inscription: SEAWARD SIDE: 1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 / AND ALL / THIS MEMORIAL DEDICATED TO THE MERCHANT NAVY / WAS DONATED TO THE PEOPLE OF LIVERPOOL BY THE / LIVERPOOL RETIRED MERCHANT SEAFARERS, / AND HANDED TO THE CITY BY / THE RT. HONOURABLE JOHN PRESCOTT, / DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER, 30TH OCTOBER 1998. LANDWARD SIDE: DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND / WOMEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES / WILLINGLY FOR FREEDOM / OF OTHERS AND HAVE NO / GRAVE BUT THE SEA. / THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD / AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD, / AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, / NOT THE YEARS CONDEMN, / AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, / AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL / REMEMBER THEM

Commemoration

War: Military Service

History

Maker(s): D Strachan & Burkey, Mason
John Shimmin (ex-merchant mariner), Designer
Sponsor Type: other
Maintenance History: 2006: The seaward face of the memorial has a replacement polished black marble tablet mounted over the original inscription. The lettering is gilded but the wording the same. Below the inscription is a red ensign.

Ceremonies

Unveiled

30th October 1998

The Right Honourable John Prescott MP

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Liverpool Pier Head - Merchant Navy WW2 and WW1

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Liverpool Pier Head - Merchant Navy WW2 and WW1

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