Naval War Memorial
Naval War Memorial, Yarmouth Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1385386
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-2000
- Statutory Address:
- Naval War Memorial, Yarmouth Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1385386
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-2000
- Statutory Address 1:
- Naval War Memorial, Yarmouth Road
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Naval War Memorial, Yarmouth Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowestoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 55058 94465
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards
TM5594SW
914-1/6/10009
LOWESTOFT
YARMOUTH ROAD
Bellevue Park (east,off)
Naval War Memorial
03-OCT-00
II
War memorial commemorating the Naval Patrol Service in the Second World War. 1952-53 by F H Crossley, with sculpture by H Tyson-Smith. Stone facings. Low circular drum forty feet in diameter set with concave bronze inscription panels listing the dead by rank. Concentric plinth supports fluted entactic column rising to stepped pinnacle and ball finial. On the finial is a model galleon (Lymphad) under sail.
The memorial to the Naval Patrol Service was unveiled on 7 October 1953 by the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Rhoderick McGrigor.. The memorial commemorates 2,385 names from the patrol depot "Europa", including 49 from Newfoundland, who never returned to their base at Sparrow's Nest, an adjacent site in Lowestoft. Sparrow's Nest was the central depot of the Naval Patrol Service in the Second World War. The service itself was developed from the trawler section of the Royal Naval Reserve and many Lowestoft skippers and fishermen served in it. It manned the minesweepers, corvettes, fuel carriers and other small craft in the Second World War. Some 57,000 men served in the Naval Patrol Service at its height in 1944.
Listing NGR: TM5505894465
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 13 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485848
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gooday, C, HMS Europa, (1977), 24-5
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/117716
Other
Lowestoft Journal, 28 November 1952
Eastern Evening News, 8 October 1953
Lowestoft Journal, 9 October 1953
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