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
Country
England
Type
Memorial
Source
Historic England listing

Description

NU 22 SW CRASTER SPITALFORD

3/53 Memorial to Norwegian sailors on north side of Embleton Cemetery II

Headstone, 1917. Cut sandstone. Arched stone with cable-moulded edge and anchor in vesica-shaped top panel. Inscription, partly worn away:

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

Included for historical interest.

Listing NGR: NU2322321695

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