National Submarine War Memorial - Victoria Embankment (London)
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Depicted interesting memorial, devoted to Royal Navy submariners who died in the first and second world wars, is located on the Victoria Embankment, near Charing Cross in London.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/28/2016
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Depicted interesting memorial, devoted to Royal Navy submariners who died in the first and second world wars, is located on the Victoria Embankment, near Charing Cross in London.
The key part of the Memorial is a bronze relief panelling, work of Frederick Brook Hitch, depicting four naval figures in the interior of a submarine contending against the inimical influences of the ocean, represented by figures attempting to trap it in a net. On the left is a plaque listing the submarines lost in 1914-1918 and on the right is a list of submarines lost from 1939 to 1945. To the left and right of the plaques are female figures representing Truth, and a blindfolded Justice. Under the centre panel is an oblong plaque showing a submarine cruising on the surface of the sea. Ornamental border includes the badge of the Royal Navy, some dolphins and the prows of boats.
Inscription - the main panel:
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Erected to the memory of the officers and men of the British Navy who lost their lives serving in submarines 1914–1918 and 1939–1945
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Inscription - the lower small bronze plaque, added to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the unveiling of the original memorial in 1992:
National Submarine War Memorial (1922)
This plaque commemorates the memorial’s
seventieth anniversary and the contribution
by the members of the submariners old
comrades, London, in their devotion to
the upkeep of this memorial, unveiled by
Peter P. Rigby C.B.E.J.P.
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