Launch of the 'Osbourn' - Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
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A bronze relief panel titled: 'Launch of the 'OSBOURN'. The panel depicts The launch of the Osbourn in 1870 the third of five Royal Yacht's built in the Royal Dockyard. Located in Pembroke Dock, which is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, South Wales
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Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/11/2017
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A series of six bronze relief panels depicting events & scenes in the History of the Royal Dockyard. The panels forms part of the Town Trail project, sponsored by the Pembroke Dock Townscape Heritage Initiative.
The panels were carved in Bath Stone by a local Sculptor Perry Butler, & then cast in bronze. The panels looked like tinted stone, I had to step up to them & touch to confirm they were in fact bronze.
On a descriptive bi-lingual plaque below the Bronze panel, the Era is described as Mid Victorian, & gives the panel title as: 'Launch of the OSBOURN'
The panel refers to a memorable event in 1870: 'The launch of the Osbourn' The third Royal Yatcht to be constructed in the dockyard, built for the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VII
At its peak the Dockyard employed over 5,000 workers. The Dockyard closed in 1926.
The Bronze relief panel is displayed on the former Dockyard wall,
along Front Street, with the Martello Gun Tower in the background.
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