Monument To Jack Crawford At Ngr 3979 5652

The monument to Jack Crawford is located in Mowbray Park, Sunderland. It features a statue created by Percy Wood, dated and signed 1889-90. The bronze figure is life-sized and depicts a young man in seaman's attire, nailing a flag to a mast with a pistol butt used as a hammer. The statue stands on a granite plinth, which is set on a mound of magnesian limestone, supported by irregularly-piled pieces of limestone rock. On the north side of the plinth, there is an inscription that reads: "the sailor who so heroically nailed Admiral Duncan's flag to the main top-gallant mast of HMS Venerable in the glorious action off Camperdown on October 11 1797. Jack Crawford was born at the Pottery Bank, Sunderland, 1775 and died in his native town 1831 aged 56 years. Erected by public subscription."