One Day My Ship Will Come - Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
N 51° 41.730 W 004° 56.870
30U E 365380 N 5728967
A bronze relief panel titled: 'One Day My Ship Will Come'. Depicts the Town in 1850, The man with a Wooden Leg Captain Sir Watkin Owen-Pell & is Supervisor of shipping for the British Empire - The Shipyard is located in Pembroke Dock, South Wales
Waymark Code: WMVP0Y
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 Early Victorian Era, & gives the panel title as:' One Day My Ship Will Come'.
The panels states "the man on horseback with the Peg Leg is Captain Supertendent Sir Watkin Owen-Pell"
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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