Memorial to Norwegian Sailors on North Side of Embleton Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Memorial.
Memorial to Norwegian Sailors on North Side of Embleton Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- western-moat-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Memorial to Norwegian Sailors on North Side of Embleton Cemetery, Craster
- OS grid reference
- NU 232 216
- Coordinates
- 55.48851, -1.63407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial to Norwegian sailors, located on the north side of Embleton Cemetery, was erected in 1917. It is made of cut sandstone and features an arched stone with a cable-moulded edge and an anchor in the vesica-shaped top panel. The inscription, which is partly worn away, reads:
"IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FROM EXPOSURE IN AN OPEN BOAT, WHILE ON PASSAGE FROM THE DEFENCELESS NORWEGIAN STEAMER 'POLLUX' TORPEDOED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE 40 MILES EAST OF ABERDEEN. THE BOAT REACHED SADDLE ROCKS DUNSTANBOROUGH, 22ND MARCH 1917, AFTER HAVING BEEN AT SEA FOUR DAYS SVERRE HENRIKSEN HOPEN, BERGEN; MARINUS LARSEN, TROMSO: GEORGE RASMUSSEN, DENMARK: OLAF ERIKSEN, CHRISTIANA: LUDVIG OTTEM, BERGEN: GEORG JOHS JOHANNSEN, LARVIK: ONE .....
EREC .... ..SHIP CO. THE OWNER OF THE S/S POLLUX."
This memorial is included for its historical interest.
Local climate
Memorial to Norwegian Sailors on North Side of Embleton Cemetery receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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