Seafarers and Killed in the Sea Monument Eternal Flame - Helsinki, Finland
N 60° 09.246 E 024° 56.304
35V E 385556 N 6670359
This Eternal Flame stands atop the Seafarers and Killed in the Sea Monument, located in the parkway along the south coast of Helsinki Finland.
Waymark Code: WMG1R3
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 01/02/2013
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"Sculptor Oskari Jauhiainen and architect Eero Eerikäinen designed the earthly lighthouse monument to honor and acknowledge Finnish shipping and seafarers. The treetop monument 12 meters high returns to the eternal fire, which, however, shuts down from time to time from strong winds. To-date high concrete partitions frame the core of the cast bronze compass-themed and locket-shaped sculpture, with the text: FINLAND TO MARINERS - TO YOUR FINLANDS SAILORS MCMLXVIII.
In time it has become a memorial to deaths at sea and the survivors a monument and memorial place. In 1984, the Finnish Seamen's Mission placed commemorative plaque on the inner surface of the memorial wall to those who died in the Baltic Sea in 1979 sinking of the MS Ore." (
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"Seafarers and sea bereaved Memorial (originally Marine Memorial) is a Oskari Jauhiainen and Eero Eerikäinen designed, in Helsinki in 1968 seafarers to honor and acknowledge erected a monument .
The memorial is situated by the sea in Eira , Ursin cliff. It is made of concrete, the lighthouse-forming structure, which returns to the top of the eternal fire. Concrete columns between the earth's surface is a bronze compass themed medaljonkimainen sculpture, which is in Finnish and Swedish text "Finnish seafarers" and Roman numerals marked MCMLXVIII year (1968).
Today a monument is perceived primarily as a monument of drowned sailors and reminiscing place. Each year All Saints' Day Finnish Church organized by the opportunity to remember those who perished at sea. During the ceremony, the rescue ships will visit the monument in front of the honor. The organization has also drawn attention to the memorial plaque, which are sunk in the Baltic Sea in 1979, M / S Ore whom perished, as well as the names of the text: "the memory of those buried into the sea." (
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