Memorial: M5128

Monument in Sharpness, Gloucestershire dedicated to those former students of the Gravesend Sea School who gave their lives in the Second World War.

Location

Sharpness docks, Sharpness, Gloucestershire, England

Transcript

'THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE T.S. VINDICATRIX ASSOCIATION AND UNVEILED 9TH AUGUST 2003', 'IN 1939 GRAVESEND SEA SCHOOL WAS EVACUATED TO THE SHIP 'VINDICATRIX' WHICH WAS BERTHED NEARBY ON THE CANAL. BOYS AGED 15 TO 17 WERE TRAINED FOR SERVICE IN THE MERCHANT NAVY. DURING WWII MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES SERVING THEIR COUNTRY. THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN', 'ON THE SITE FROM 1943 TO 1966 STOOD THE CAMP WHICH, WITH THE 'VINDICATRIX' FORMED THE NATIONAL SEA TRAINING SCHOOL (SHARPNESS) WHERE APPROXIMATELY 70, 000 BOYS WERE TRAINED.', 'THE SCHOOL WAS A PASSAGE THROUGH WHICH OUR DREAMS BECAME REALITY', 'THE CAMP WAS HALLOWED BY OUR YOUTH'.

Details

Description: Bronze sailing vessel on a granite base. The sculptor was a former trainee.
Type: Monument
Position: Near dockers club
Materials: Bronze, granite
Artists: John Ashcroft
Vessel: Vindicatrix

Extra

Recorder: R.C. Derham 2003
Photographer: R.C. Derham 2003

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters