Erection date: 27/9/2001
{On a plaque to the left of the sculpture (in English and also in 2 non-Latin scripts):}
International Memorial to Seafarers
Unveiled by William A. O'Neil, Secretary-General, International Maritime Organisation, on 27 September 2001.
Sculpture by Michael Sandle
SE1, Albert Embankment, International Maritime Organisation
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
International Memorial to Seafarers
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
International Memorial to Seafarers
Part of the UN, the IMO has its HQ in London (we do like our initials). Alwa...
Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation in September 2001.
Born Weymouth. 2016 in-depth interview in 3rd Dimension, where Sandle says "...
This depicts an anonymous 12-year-old youth standing on a giant, fallen ash tree. The inscription is a line from a WW2 poem by Hamish Hen...
OK, a bit Henry Moore-lite but we like this piece although the setting rather lets it down. But we love the Christmas-decorated pub in t...
The lettering on the plinth does not look contemporary with the dove sculpture. It has the look of having originally been on a older mem...
As a cat-lover Solway made the sculpture of Humphry and following her death it was first erected in Queen Square and then moved to this n...
When you have a winged character overpowering a dragon - who is it - St Michael or St George? Here we have St Michael. Our confidence c...
